Requiem: A Poem
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1983. First edition. Limited edition of 250 copies. Hardcover. SIGNED and warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page ("To ______ | With Love | Sam"). The inscription is to a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector. [32]pp. Square octavo [20cm]; 3/4 black cloth, with blue and a sliver of red paper over part of the front board. Printed label on spine. Lightly sunned at the spine and fore-edge. No dust jacket as issued. Beautifully printed and mounted frontispiece. Near Fine. Item #70881
A lovely book, a lengthy single poem, issued in an edition of two hundred fifty copies. The type is Bruce Rogers' Centaur, composed by hand; the paper is Gutenberg laid. The frontispiece is from Phyllis Hopeck and is printed on Kitakata. The binding is by Marsha Hollingsworth, and utilizes Dungeoness Blue Paper made especially for this edition by Sara Krohn at the Paper Route. Designed and printed by Sam Hamill.
American poet and translator Sam Hamill (1943–2018) was also co-founder of the influential Copper Canyon Press. Over his five-decade career, he published poetry collections, taught in prisons, and founded Poets Against the War, a movement to protest the 2003 Iraq invasion. Copper Canyon Press is a nonprofit, independent poetry publisher that "believes poetry is vital to language and living." The press was founded by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, and other associates in 1972 in Denver, CO, and moved to Port Townsend, WA in 1974.
Price: $200.00