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Holding Vigil / Rickey Cummings
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FA.B132.3128
31 pages ; 18 cm
2022
Death row inmates, Death row, Prisoners' writings
Single machine-sewn signature. (Cataloger's note: we have been unable to identify an official name for this binding style; it consists of one signature with machine sewing in red thread along the spine). Black and red risograph printed interior with letterpress cover. Edition of 200.
From colophon:
"Writing: Rickey Cummings and Mark Menjivar
Design: Omnivore, Inc.
Editing: Thick Press
Cover Printing: Sarah Sauer
Interior Printing: Mark Menjivar
Binding: Universal Bookbindery
Typeface: IBM Plex Mono Regular designed by Mike Abbink, Bold Monday, and Redaction commissioned by Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts, with art direction by Forest Young and design by Jeremy Mickel on the occasion of The Redaction exhibition at MoMA PS1. For more information, see http://redaction.us"
"Black and red risograph printed interior, letterpress cover, singer sewn binding. Holding Vigil is a diaristic account of a friend’s execution, written by Rickey Cummings from Texas’ Death Row." -- Publisher's website, accessed May 29, 2024
"Too often, when a man is scheduled to be murdered by the state, all that’s talked about is the before (the crime) and the after (the trial and/or execution). Nothing is said about how we, as a nation, can be more proactive about saving said person’s life. Nothing is said about who said person is at the time of their execution. And, there’s nothing that accounts for the lived experiences of the men and women on Death Row who witness those they consider friends being walked to their deaths. While I was initially just using writing as an outlet to process my thoughts and feelings, Holding Vigil provides such an account." -- Foreword by Rickey Cummings
From colophon:
"Writing: Rickey Cummings and Mark Menjivar
Design: Omnivore, Inc.
Editing: Thick Press
Cover Printing: Sarah Sauer
Interior Printing: Mark Menjivar
Binding: Universal Bookbindery
Typeface: IBM Plex Mono Regular designed by Mike Abbink, Bold Monday, and Redaction commissioned by Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts, with art direction by Forest Young and design by Jeremy Mickel on the occasion of The Redaction exhibition at MoMA PS1. For more information, see http://redaction.us"
"Black and red risograph printed interior, letterpress cover, singer sewn binding. Holding Vigil is a diaristic account of a friend’s execution, written by Rickey Cummings from Texas’ Death Row." -- Publisher's website, accessed May 29, 2024
"Too often, when a man is scheduled to be murdered by the state, all that’s talked about is the before (the crime) and the after (the trial and/or execution). Nothing is said about how we, as a nation, can be more proactive about saving said person’s life. Nothing is said about who said person is at the time of their execution. And, there’s nothing that accounts for the lived experiences of the men and women on Death Row who witness those they consider friends being walked to their deaths. While I was initially just using writing as an outlet to process my thoughts and feelings, Holding Vigil provides such an account." -- Foreword by Rickey Cummings
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