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The Butcher / Grace Wing-Yuan Toy
Broadsides
FA.FFS21.3204
44 x 25 cm; 17" x 10"
2005
A letterpress printed broadside of a poem by Grace Wing-Yuan Toy, printed in maroon. The title is printed with wood type. The broadside is signed by the poet, and the colophon reads: "Broadside printed on April 17, 2005, at the Center for Book Arts, New York City, edition of 75." CBA has two copies, this is copy 1.
"‘The Butcher’ imagines my paternal grandfather, 黃耀璇 Wong Yao Syun, on his last day as a butcher before his death in 1955. He was 47 years old. Ah Yeh (grandfather in Cantonese) immigrated to the United States and was detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station as a paper son. He lived most of his life in the Bay Area without his immediate family due to mainly anti-Chinese discrimination. The poem was originally written during a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in February 2004. Please feel free to contact me at: grace.toy@gmail.com.” -- statement from Grace Wing-Yuan Toy
Corrections as indicted by the poet:
1. 2nd stanza, 2nd line - "in" should be lower-case
2. There should be one additional line of spacing between the fourth and fifth stanzas (like as in the first and second stanzas.)
"‘The Butcher’ imagines my paternal grandfather, 黃耀璇 Wong Yao Syun, on his last day as a butcher before his death in 1955. He was 47 years old. Ah Yeh (grandfather in Cantonese) immigrated to the United States and was detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station as a paper son. He lived most of his life in the Bay Area without his immediate family due to mainly anti-Chinese discrimination. The poem was originally written during a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in February 2004. Please feel free to contact me at: grace.toy@gmail.com.” -- statement from Grace Wing-Yuan Toy
Corrections as indicted by the poet:
1. 2nd stanza, 2nd line - "in" should be lower-case
2. There should be one additional line of spacing between the fourth and fifth stanzas (like as in the first and second stanzas.)