GRAVE DEPOSITS.
Translated by Lisel Mueller.
- (San Diego): Brighton Press, (2010).
- 6 1/2" x 11 1/4"
- Coptic binding housed in a cloth covered clamshell box with a woodcut mounted on the cover
- unpaginated
Price: $2,000.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 138512
Limited to 34 copies, of which this is one of 30 numbered copies signed by the artist. A fine copy in fine slipcase. Extremely scarce.
From the printer's website: "Prose poem by Marie Luise Kaschnitz (translation by Lisel Mueller); digital prints by Michele Burgess on film and Gampi paper. Text hand set in Spectrum and printed letterpress by Nelle Martin, printed on Stonehenge paper. Bound by Michele Burgess in silk matka over boards. Hand painted slipcase made by Nelle Martin and Sonja Jones.
Grave Deposits, volume three of "The Stratigraphic Archives," is narrated by Marie Luise Kaschnitz in her prose poem of the same name. In it, "Writer B. couldn't care less about his printed books..." preferring his failed drafts, instead. The digital prints by Michele Burgess, printed on film and Japanese papers, combine the "protagonist" figure from Herbarium with meditations on geology and winter's permeable and impermeable frosts. The images and book design were inspired by: nineteenth-century daguerreotypes; an ever-changing arroyo in Dixon, New Mexico; the reliquaries at the Santuario de Chimayo in Chimayo, New Mexico; Bill Kelly's sketchbook; the anatomy of the human foot; and an arrival of Japanese beetles in Liisa Kissel's garden in Grafton, Vermont."
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.