Center Broadsides 2005 Reading Series / The Center for Book Arts

Identifier:FA.OSB6.0816

Dimensions:[overall] 41 x 29 cm

Creation dates:2005

designed by: Pablo Defendini, Delphi Basilicato, Yukari Hayashida, Champe Smith, Amber McMillan Braverman, Sara Parkel, Jennifer Verbit, Rebecca Kutys, Kelly Hitzing, Roni Gross, Benjamin Rinehart

text by: Daniel Nester, Jeff Friedman, M.J. Bender, Mark Nickels, Angelo Verga, Douglas Goetsch, Garrett Kalleberg, Tony Towle, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Elaine Equi, Elizabeth Alexander, Joan Larkin

Description:CBA copy 1; 1 hand-painted covered board portfolio with a quarter burgundy cloth spine, burgundy grosgrain ribbon ties, title label on front cover; contains 12 letterpress printed poetry broadsides, each an edition of 100, signed by the poets; various dimensions. Broadsides feature collaborations between poets and artists for the 2005 Center for Book Arts Reading Series. Poets and artists include "A Garden," Joan Larkin / Roni Gross, Michael Aboody; "Ars Poetica #28: African Leave Taking Disorder," Elizabeth Alexander / Kelly Hitzing; "Etudes," Elaine Equi / Rebecca Kutys; "March Chimes," Laure-Anne Bosselaar / Jennifer Verbit; "Misprison," Tony Towle / Amber McMillan; "Track/Propagation of Errors," Garrett Kalleberg / Sara Parkel, Amy Mees; "Your Whole Life (part 4)," Douglas Goetsch / Amber McMillan; "Clean Men," Angelo Verga / Champe Smith; "The Harvesters: Inside a Painting by Peter Brugel the Elder," Mark Nickels / Delphi Basilicato, Yukari Hayashida; "The Peacock Perhaps Has Violent Dreams," M.J. Bender / Pablo Defendini; "The Long Heat Wave: For Gerald Stern," Jeff Friedman / Benjamin D. Rinehart; "Two Exaggerated Self-Portraits: After Ulrich Berkes, 1980," Daniel Nester / Sarah Nicholls.