Cosmogonie Intime / An Intimate Cosmogony. Poems by Yves PeyrŽ. English translation by Elizabeth R. Jackson. Drawings by Ray Rice. Bookwork by Felicia Rice

Book Description

[Santa Cruz, California:] Moving Parts Press, 2005 One of eighty-four copies with illustrations colored by pochoir, out of a total edition of ninety-six copies. There were also twelve copies hand-painted by the artist. Signed by the printer and the translator and initialed "rR." The illustrator, Ray Rice, died in 2001. [36] leaves, printed on Fabriano Artistico paper, on one side only, and folded accordion style, in white pictorial wrappers, with glassine. Parallel English and French texts. Pochoir colored illustrations on each page and on the cover. Folio (10 x 15"). . As new in publisher's plain paper slipcase. Yves PeyrŽ, in addition to being a leading French poet, is Director of the Bibliothque littŽraire Jacques Doucet, the French government's library of first editions, manuscripts, and publications of modern French literature. Artist Ray Rice is the father of the printer, Felicia Rice. He spent over fifty years on the modern American art scene as a painter, mosaicist and animator of experimental films.

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