Order Nr. 138502 THE HOUSE THE POET BUILT. W. D. Snodgrass.
THE HOUSE THE POET BUILT.
THE HOUSE THE POET BUILT.
THE HOUSE THE POET BUILT.
THE HOUSE THE POET BUILT.
THE HOUSE THE POET BUILT.
THE HOUSE THE POET BUILT.

THE HOUSE THE POET BUILT.

(Brighton Press).

Illustrated by DeLoss McGraw.

  • (San Diego: Brighton Press, 1985).
  • 10 3/8" x 16 3/4"
  • unbound, cloth clamshell box
  • unpaginated

Price: $2,700.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 138502

Limited to 30 numbered signed by the author and the artist. A fine copy in fine clamshell box.

From the press' website: In the summer of 1985, painter DeLoss McGraw arrived at the door of poet W. D. Snodgrass's country house near Erieville, New York, bearing a mysterious wooden box. The next morning McGraw opened the box to reveal ten prepared etching plates neatly separated to protect their surface. He proposed that W. D. write a short phrase at the top of each plate and McGraw would respond with an image underneath. The artist suggested that these ten phrases might become a poem. What happened as a result is a delightful and very personal retelling of "The House that Jack Built" in which the poet becomes the "daft old bard" and finds himself at the center of a whirring menagerie. McGraw's sensitive images perfectly capture the wondrous activity around the poet's house.

Ten-stanza poem by W. D. Snodgrass; ten hand tinted, soft-ground etchings by DeLoss McGraw. Introduction by Constance Glenn. Fourteen letterpress pages handset in Caslon 540 and printed letterpress by Bill Kelly on Rives Tan paper. Unbound, housed in a clamshell box covered in cloth printed with an etching by the artist made by Nanci Kelly.

The Brighton Press was founded by Bill Kelly in 1985 and is directed by Michele Burgess. The press has produced over fifty titles since, working with numerous artists in their collaborations.