The Cartographer's Wedding: An Epithalamion
[Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, 1982. Limited edition of 170 copies. Broadside. Poetry broadside [35cm x 23.5cm / 13.75" x 9.25"]; beautifully printed in four colors (subtle) on fine white paper. 43 lines in 8 stanzas (2 columns). Illustration at top left. Broadside has been professionally mounted onto fine pale rose stock and simply framed. [Frame measurements are 39.5cm x 27.5cm / 15.75" x 11".]. Fine. Item #70934
"One hundred and seventy copies printed in May of 1982 at Copper Canyon Press. The poem is copyright 1981 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: $75.00