[Janus Press] Leland Kinsey, Judy Haswell, Karen Hesse | illustrations by Claire Van Vliet

Trio: Eclipses; It Was Like That; [and] Cosmos

Newark, VT: Janus Press, 2014-2015. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Item #10892

Octavo. [42] pp., illus; [42] pp., illus. pop-up, errata; [80] pp., illus. Limited edition, each is from an edition of 140 to 150 numbered copies, 115 of which were thus gathered together and wrapped in a handmade paper-over-boards chemise with a single bifolium "Notes on Trio" laid in. Housed in slipcase with printed paper title label on the spine. Each signed by the author—Eclipses is additionally signed by Van Vliet. Variously bound and illustrated with a lithograph and digital prints by Van Vliet. Fine copies.

A wonderful gathering of poetry that showcases many aspects of Van Vliet's design and decoration: from Kinsey's work with Van Vliet's beautiful illustrations of the moon and Ellen Dorn Levitt's diagrams of eclipses, to Haswell's more playful design including numerous different papers and inclusion as well as the letterpress printing of the poems both in type and her own handwriting scanned and made into polymer plates, to Hesse's four-season Cosmos that is bound in-the-round so that once that last page is turned, the reader is looking at the first, begging the question: what is first and what is last?

Price: $450.00