Punta del Burro
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 2018. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Item #9779
Quarto. [2], 24 ll., illus. Limited edition of one hundred numbered copies. Signed by Dawes and Gregg at the colophon. In a glued leaf binding in printed Canal paper covers. Gregg's drawings have been digitally printed here with Dawes's holographic poems letterpress printed from polymer plates around the drawings. Accompanying this is a smaller, french-fold chapbook printed with matching foliation, all housed in clamshell with maple wood sides in a slipcase with printed paper label. A fine copy.
The chapbook offers a transcription of the holographic poems in the main work—though Dawes's handwriting is plenty legible. Additionally, a short "Poet's Note" at the beginning of this chapbook describes his process of writing these poems in response to Gregg's drawings of Vallarta. He writes: "The poems collected here represent the most exciting part of making poems for me which is writing the first draft in that breakneck pace of someone in search of what a poem is offering and doing so with faith that it will eventually reveal itself to me." And of this particular collection of poems, Dawes makes a fascinating observation: "I write to understand how I have been moved by the art." A beautiful idea, searching for understanding through writing. A wonderful and accidental (or perhaps inspired) collaboration between the founder of the Vermont Studio Center and the Ghanaian poet.
Price: $1,500.00