Rope
Freeport, ME: Rebecca Goodale, 2021. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Item #10173
5-3/4" x 6-3/4." 18 pp. (including pastedowns), illus. Limited edition, number 3 of 9 copies. Signed by Goodale and Merrill. Vertically oriented accordion binding with gray cloth over boards and title stamped in silver on the upper cover; all housed in clamshell with a drypoint etching recessed into the lid of the box.
Merrill has penned a beautiful poem that plumbs deep into the relentless nature of human striving for understanding, for purpose, and for hope and wonder. Just as Merrill's poem pulls, hand-over-hand, that rope of emotion out of the sea, Goodale's drypoint etchings drive us back into the sea, each page of gray paper, washed darker as she takes us deeper and deeper, with different creatures and sea life as we go. And through it all, Merrill's rope to the ocean floor is suggested in the illustrations.
Price: $1,550.00