Announcing a new publication from Nawakum Pess: Encheiresin naturae : fifteen engravings by Barry Moser : A heroic crown of sonnets by Paul Muldoon.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Santa Rosa, California] :
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MMXV [2015]
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| Item Description: | Prospectus. "Encheiresin Naturae is a creative collaboration between Barry Moser, the renowned American artist, and Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet. Moser's new abstract images, invented and engraved for this Nawakum Press edition, intimately consort with Muldoon's new, powerful, previously unpublished poems. ... The title for this new edition is drawn from Moser's early reading of Goethe's Faust in which the term encheiresin naturae, a specific alchemic term, a half-Greek, half-Latin phrase that popped up in the eighteenth century, is used. It suggests a manipulation or handling of Nature. ... Known for his representational content, Moser made a major shift as an engraver when he began working on a number of abstract engravings in January of 2014. They were unlike anything he had done before. Early in that process Muldoon was approached to see if he might respond to the images poetically. He agreed and chose an older, advanced form of poetry, known as a sonnet redoublé, or a heroic crown of sonnets, for his tour-de-force response."--Page [1]. Purchased for the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive by The Cushing Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 4 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm |
| Related Items: | The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive. |