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About Sylvia
Title
About Sylvia / poems by Diane Ackerman [and others] ; lithographs by Enid Mark.
Published
Wallingford, Pa. : ELM Press, 1996.
Physical Description
31 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 42 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2020 Folio 9: Artist's proof. Autograph of Enid Mark. Accompanied by: Autograph letter signed from Enid Mark to Ted Hughes, 11 May 1997 (1 L. + 1 env.); and publisher's prospectus (1 L.).
Notes
"Fifty numbered copies and ten artist's proofs of this book were printed during the spring and summer of 1996"--Colophon.
"The lithographs, printed on Arches Velin, were hand pulled by Timothy P. Sheesley at Corridor Press, Otego, New York. The type, Monotype Bembo, was composed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari at Golgonooza Letter Foundry, Ashuelot, New Hampshire, and printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley, Massachusetts. [Title page] calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. Handbinding by Sarah Creighton"--Colophon.
Printed on double leaves joined at foreedge. Poems and lithographs printed as a series of 10 double-page spreads, with poems on rectos and lithographs on facing versos. Two of the poems are printed on folded leaves.
Summary
"Ten poems about the poet Sylvia Plath, written by those who knew her"--Prospectus.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 29, 2020
Contents
Foreword / Enid Mark
On looking into Sylvia Plath's copy of Goethe's Faust / Diane Ackerman
Cottage Street, 1953 / Richard Wilbur
The heroine / Peter Davison
Dream song 172 / John Berryman
Wanting to die / Anne Sexton
Requiem for Sylvia Plath / Luciana Frezza
Daughters and others / Rachel Hadas
Sylvia Plath / Robert Lowell
On the death of Sylvia Plath / Judith Herzberg
Chaucer / Ted Hughes.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Artists' books.
Glass (Material)
Artists' books.
Poetry.
Artists' books - United States - 20th century.
Typefaces (Type evidence) - Bembo (Monotype)
Also listed under
ELM Press.
Corridor Press.
Golgonooza Letter Foundry.
Wild Carrot Letterpress.
United States Pennsylvania Wallingford.
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