Pasadena: Archetype Press, 2002. Quarto. (41)ff. One of 60 copies. Printed in a variety of styles, using a variety of methods, this compilation of “isms” and ideologies provides highly visual humor and insight into topics ranging from ageism to materialism to conspiracy theories to psychoanalysis. A student production supervised by..... More
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2008. Octavo. (4)pp. One of 100 copies, initialed by the printer. Apollinaire's visual poem here receives an updated, poignant frame. The poem, the title of which loosely translates to "New Boots," meditates on the tragedy of youth and war; its structure vaguely recalls the crossbody sash..... More
(Melbourne): Masterthief, 2009. Folio. (44)pp. One of ten copies, signed by the artists, Peter Lyssiotis and Theo Strasser. An imposing work, monumental in many senses, Remembrance matches Robert Colvin’s poetry with hand-painted pages and original screenprints to underscore the consequences of actions, especially those by the military. It demands a...... More
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Aurora, NY: Wells College Press, 2003 (but 2014). Folio. (9)ff. One of thirty copies, signed by the author, Ildefonso Manuel Gil, before his passing in 2003. Each lithograph titled, numbered, signed, and dated by the artist as well. A suite of four lithographs, plus an original drawing, by Roberts embrace..... More
Martin Lesinski, 2017. Quarto. (26)pp. One of five copies. A book woven into being through the trials of military service, Beyond the Reach of Reason presents itself as a living thing. Lesinski’s poetry draws upon his experience as a combat veteran, a disabled veteran, and a disabled person living in..... More
Seattle: Aubergine Atelier, 2019. Each copy in the edition contains unique paintings by Jodee Fenton. These, distributed throughout as full leaves, cutouts, and paste-downs, encourage a new perspective on Yeats’ seminal poem. Originally composed as a reaction to the pain of the early 20th century—the aftermath of the First World..... More
Brooklyn: David Barthold, 2020. Broadside. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, David Barthold. Screenprint of Barthold’s portrait of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In 2020, Barthold’s portraits of Ginsburg, George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police in May accelerated the Black Lives Matter movement, and..... More
André Carrilho, 2020. Silkscreen print. One of twenty copies, signed and numbered by the artist, André Carrilho. Part collage, part cartoon, Carrilho’s illustration highlights the particular position of Black athletes in the fight against police brutality. Black athletes have a long history of using their platform to bring awareness to..... More
NY: Dial Press, 1963. Uncorrected long galley proof copy. Baldwin's seminal non-fiction text on race in America, here in a rare pre-publication format. The book contains two essays, "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from..... More
Mt. Carmel, CT: Ives Street Press, 1985. 16mo. (iv), 10, (3)pp. One of 110 copies. Prefaced by R. Buckminster Fuller is Chief Seattle's 1851 plea for the United States government to respect the lands of Indigenous tribes (which it subsequently did not, in the slightest, do). Fuller's preface underscores Seattle's..... More
(Del Mar, CA: Ettan Press, 1975). Quarto. 16pp., + (13)ff. One of forty-five copies containing eight original color etchings, each numbered and signed by the artist. The title, in the Apache language, means "because of that which is beautiful," and the text brings together poems and verbal expressions from several..... More
Paris: Front Culturel, 1970. Octavo. (33)pp. Illustrated throughout with images, sometimes caricatured, of greedy capitalists, corrupt judges, and militarized police. Juxtaposed with these are depictions of the revolutionaries and protestors of a variety of ethnicities raising strong fists and fighting back. The mission of the Front Culturel was to co-opt..... More
Bob Ziering, 2009. Pastel on paper. Signed and dated by the artist, Bob Ziering. Original exploratory artwork for the gay 2010 American short film Curious Thing directed by Alain Hain. This bold, emotional piece is Ziering at his most authentic; a celebrated commercial illustrator, it was only after more than..... More
(Cambridge, MA: c. 2016). Oblong 16mo. (28)ff. One of an unidentified number copies of the second edition, though likely fewer than five. Signed by the artist at her Introduction, in which she states, "In making this book I wanted to portray each woman as a complex, intellectual being rather than..... More
(Sacramento, CA): Deconstructed Artichoke Press, 2012. As much a love letter to baseball as an admonition of its cultural shortcomings, Thompson’s prose poem follows a softball player’s discovery of herself and of the gender bias in the game she adores. The text is loaded with as many questions as answers..... More
NY: Furious Day Press, 2016. Small octavo. (8)ff accordionfold, printed on both sides. Each panel, save Turnbull's introduction and the colophon, presents the reader with a silkscreen investigating through collage and/or altered photographs the male body as artistic and historical object. The book is a collaboration between three Manhattan Graphics..... More
Amsterdam: Aschenbach Galerie, 1989. Penck’s signature raw, “primitive” style, which takes cues from graffiti and hearkens to the concurrent pop art movement championed across the Atlantic by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, both embodies and communicates the anxious selfhood of one living in Germany during the Cold War. Penck repeats..... More
(N.p. L'Union Internationale des Etudiants, c. 1980). Broadside, printed in black, red, and blue. The poster's statement is immediate and direct: end the fascist regime in Chile. It specifically refers to the Pinochet dictatorship, which terrorized the Chilean populace for much of the latter half of the twentieth century. The..... More
Octon, France: Verdigris, 2005. Rothchild’s illustrations—two mezzotints, one of which has been broken up into eight fragments—communicate the pensive darkness of the writer’s desk, laying it, as Bishop does poetically, before the reader in pieces and as a whole. Bishop’s poem was originally published in Geography III in 1976. Her..... More
(Seattle, WA: 1932). 16mo. (44)ff. Throughout the text—likely a report published for distrubtion to a small number of political advocates and/or social workers—are tipped-in photographs and ephemera, and directly interleaved are illustrations and charts. The photographs show the city of Seattle as it was experienced by the houseless during the..... More
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2021. A selection of art prints, postcard-sized, by Hirschman, all signed on verso by him. Hirschman was a Beat poet, passionate about the anti-war and Black liberation movements, and the prints represent a sampling of a larger project by him; from 1976 to 1988, he..... More
(Iowa City): Naughty Dog Press, 2002. Five folding wallets, each of which uses a Jacob’s ladder format that allows it to open either from the left or right side. On the internal panels of each wallet Emily Martin has printed opposing statements—”I am a patriot/You are a traitor,” “You have..... More
Sydney: Ant Press, 2012. An exploration of Australia’s system of democracy and of the principle of voting rights, Oppen’s book plumbs the ambivalence many modern voters feel toward democracy to analyze the ironies of current governments. The bulk of the book is devoted to a series of linocuts foregrounding the..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Luminice Press, 2022. Oblong 16mo. (24)pp double-sided accordionfold. One of twelve copies, signed by both artists. When opened in one direction, the book displays a series of two-page spreads juxtaposing, at left, earlier legislative acts granting or ensuring progressive freedoms, regulations, and resposibilities, with, at right, recent bills..... More
Gambier, OH: Unit IV Arts, 2021. Sheffield’s visual and poetic meditation on “lostness” stems, particularly, from an article on Lost Person Behavior, which is the science of applying profiles to know how and where to search for someone, and, generally, from the pervasive and at times either abstract or tangible..... More
