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One by One / Lynne Avadenka
Accordion books
FA.B94.1490
6 leaves; 22 cm; 183 cm fully expanded
2011
Numbered 18 out of an edition of 20. Printed letter press using wood and metal types, and photopolymer plates on hanga-shi paper. Signed and numbered in back with a description of the project. Beige paper with grey, black and, beige ink printed along the bottom register of the book. Produced in commemoration of the 2007 bombing of Al-Mutannabi Street, the intellectual and literary epicenter of the city of Bagdad. Includes the poem "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" written by Wilfred Owen (1916), an English poet and soldier who was killed in action in 1918 during World War I. Wilfred poems describe the horrors he witnessed as a result of trench warfare.