The Kingfishers
Brooklyn: Woodside Press, 2009. Micah Slawinski Currier. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Folio [33 cm] Rust colored cloth covered boards with a printed paper title label mounted to the front cover. NEW. Item #17295
The Kingfishers was Olson's first major poem, and it is the clearest example of Olson's concept of Projective Verse. The Kingfishers was handset in Cloister Old Style and printed on Somerset Woven Book . Book design, illustration, cuts, and printing by Micah Slawinski Currier. "Cloister OS was designed by Morris Fuller Benton for The American Type Foundry in 1897. Benton modeled Cloister OS on the Venetian types of the 15th century and was one of the first modern revivals of the Venetian types" (limitation page). This is a very limited edition. Number 28 of 55. Initialed by Currier on the limitation page.
Price: $100.00