signed Quarter forest green French goatskin over decorative black English paper.
2015] · [Sherman Oaks, CA:]
by [Ninja Press]. Phillips, Dennis
[Sherman Oaks, CA:] [Ninja Press, 2015] One of seventy-five copies, signed both by the poet and photographer with an additional eight lettered hors commerce. . Quarter forest green French goatskin over decorative black English paper. . Folio (12.5" x 6.75"). . Photographically reproduced frontispiece and title page illustration; twenty-one photographic reproductions by Carolee Campbell. The photographs were printed digitally on Japanese Asuka washi, then cut and tipped-in by hand. The type is handset Van Dick with Felix Titling for the display. It is printed letterpress on dampened Barcham Green paper, handmade in 1986 at the Hayle Mill (now closed) in Maidstone, Kent, England. A fine copy. Prospectus laid in. On Rooks consists of a "set of splendidly rich poems that records the minutiae of the moment, moving from the micro to the macro throughout. The poems are both the residue of privacy and an accounting of terrain, the poet's territory; a collision of megalopolis, mountain, and desert meeting in a fire" (from the prospectus).
(Inventory #: 16259)