Ninja Press, Carolee Campbell
XXIV Short Love Poems , 2002
5.5 x 5.5
in
This collection of poems by Bruce Whiteman was written on the occasion of the poet’s twenty-fourth wedding anniversary and offered as a gift to his wife. A circle of particular intimacy has been drawn by these poems and their accompanying photographs, a circle inside of which languor lies entwined with both passion and risk. Printed in four colors from hand set Eve (Koch Antiqua) and Paramount onto hanga-shi, a Japanese paper which is no longer available. The poems are augmented by three cyanotypes, a nineteenth-century photographic process. They are sensitized by hand and printed by the photographer, Carolee Campbell, onto handmade paper from the Velké Losiny mill in the former Czechoslovakia. The accordion-style binding uses a luminous golden paste paper hand painted by Claire Maziarczyk, to cover the boards. Japanese iridescent cloth is on the spine.
