In Its Own Tongue

6.25″ x 10.5″
Letterpress printed poetic navigational tools. Folder holds two pressure printed maps and five broadsides printed from a combination of metal type and photopolymer plates; each element includes a paragraph from a prose poem about a river, and a line from Elizabeth Bishop’s poem The Riverman.
Rubber-based inks, drafting vellum, Mohawk and St. Armand papers, PVA
Edition of 25, plus artist’s proofs
2013
Private Collections
James & Marilynn Alcott Library, MCBA
8 copies still available, $125 ea.