Most-recently received books from our new book announcement form:
Chester Creek Press, A Story also Grows. ". . . poems by Charlotte Muse . . . inspired by the words of Ascencion Solorsano, the last native speaker of the Mutsun tribe, who were forced by Spanish missionaries to build the Mission San Juan Bautista in California at the end of the 18th century."
Shackman Press, Easter Week. ". . . a collection of new Anton Chekhov translations and engravings. Two stories, “The Student," Chekhov’s own favorite, and “On Easter Eve,” appear in a superb new translation by Michael Henry Heim. Both stories, as well as an accompanying letter, are illustrated with original engravings by Barry Moser."
Deep Wood Press, The Frogs Who Wished A King. ". . . classic tale from Aesop's fables newly illustrated by Chad Pastotnik with five intaglio engravings printed in raw umber. Composed in Garamond types and printed on mouldmade Hahnemuhle Biblio paper."
Incline Press, A Line. ". . . a story about the rope line that leads the fisherman to the sea. It is also the story of the unbreakable line that connects one life to another, about life lines and friendship lines and the inexorable line of narrative that makes a satisfying story."
Atelier BiBi, Breve introduzione alla tecnica incisoria della PUNTASECCA. ". . . introduzione alla tecnica della PUNTASECCA. Con una incisione originale."
Greenboathouse Press, Against the Hard Angle. ". . . [these] poems feel contemporary. Objects are used to hint at human relationships, relationships perhaps difficult to discuss, haunted by an unspoken pessimism."
The Old Stile Press, Equus. ". . . a long, dramatic text of a dreadful event committed by a highly disturbed young man."
Women's Studio Workshop, Patterned Pleasures. ". . . compares the alluring act of aerial mating in leopard slugs with the positions taken during human sexual activity."
Women's Studio Workshop, Iron. ". . . text examines the history of domestic labor and immigration, while the images document the technological progress of ironing appliances (patents included). Printed in invisible ink, the viewer reads the book by ironing the pages."
The Shackman Press, Paul Celan: A Reading for Group 47. ". . . Paul Celan visited the German literary club, Group 47. He read four poems [reprinted here]."
Aureole Press, Exiled from the Throne of Night. "A multi-signature book with original Spanish poems and English translations printed in two colors from Perpetua types . . . ."
Chester Creek Press, Crows on Bare Branches. ". . . poems about the changing seasons told through the migrations of birds in Alaska."
Triona Pers, Tongue Twister. ". . . typespecimen book contains one phrase that is difficult to articulate when spoken quickly."
Lumiere Press, On Prior Lane; A Firefly's Light; The Cushing Interviews. ". . . An acknowledged master of photography, rarely seen and previously unpublished images by Paul Caponigro are interwoven with a dialogue that traces his personal journey, his artistic development, his philosophical revelations."
The Press & Letterfoundry of Michael & Winfred Bixler, A Legacy of Letters. ". . . through a deep reading of the writings of Morison and his contemporaries[, Legacy] explores the question of type design and its relationship to the technologies of type production."
Chester Creek Press, Dusk at St. Mark's and Other Poems. ". . . by Dylan Willoughby [with illustrations] printed with polymer plates made from original drawings by Anthony Mastromatteo."
Deep Wood Press, Winter Walks. ". . . by Jerry Dennis with eight wood engravings by Glenn Wolff. Jerry's remarkable insi[ght] into the wilderness within and out, a modern transcendental voyage in the snow."
The Printery Books, On Collecting William Morris: A Memoir. ". . . one of two runners-up in the 2008 Carl Hertzog Award competition sponsored by Friends [of] the University Library at the University of Texas El Paso."
The Old School Press, Palladio's Homes. ". . . brings together the architecture, art, paper, and type of Italy in this new slant on Palladio's domestic architecture on the 500th anniversary of his birth."
The Petrarch Press, Canticle of the Creatures. ". . . considered by many to be the earliest poetical masterpiece in the Italian language, [Canticle] is newly transcribed from the oldest remaining manuscript of the song. . . ."
The Old Stile Press, The Girl from the Sea. "There are many stories and legends of selkies—the seals that surround the shores of Orkney—their deep brown eyes that captivate humans, their singing that mesmerises. George Mackay Brown had written stories of them."
Celtic Cross Press, Sea Stories. "Three stories about island folk whose lives are bound up with the sea and fishing, a common theme in much of George Mackay Brown's work, written between 1975 and 1987 but unpublished." With "10 line drawings in one colour" by Rosemary Roberts.
Hell Fire Club Books, A Facsimile Rosicrucian Alchemical Manuscript On the Philosophers Stone . . . . "From an unpublished handwritten notebook circa 1860 which reflects the secret alchemical traditions of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and the Hermetic Society of the Golden Dawn."
Caveworks Press, Out of the Blue. "Aaron McNally's poetry is driven by rhythm and sound, but guided by emotion. As readers, we are challenged to pinpoint the complexities of emotional expression each poem contains."
Bracket Press, On the Visionary Work and Revolutionary Life of an Idle Idol: William Morris. "In a life of only 62 years William Morris managed to be poet, painter, engraver, weaver, dyer, designer, printer, retailer and revolutionary, sometimes all at once."
Arion Press, Tono-Bungay. ". . . remarkably timely in its satire of the pharmaceuticals industry and warnings about unregulated financial speculation. The Arion Press edition is illustrated with fourteen portraits of the main characters by Stan Washburn."
