Oak Knoll

Limited to 175 copies, of which this is one of 26 signed / lettered copies which the author has painted an original wraparound dust jacket, 10" x 22", on heavy canvas, employing acrylic paints and a variety of finishes applied in a multiple gouache technique, and presenting an image of palms, sand, sky, sea and surf - the essential scene / ground backdrop against which the action of the poems may be viewed. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in fine dust jacket.

From the prospectus: "A project begun in 1980, and culminating in the present edition, Under The Fortune Palms is a sequence of sixty poems anatomizing in verse that complex cultural, sociological and geographical entity known as "So Cal."

This edition of 175 copies is hand set in Goudy Modern type, printed on a handpress on Frankfurt white paper, and hand bound in Dutch linen over hard boards."

Handset by Harry Reese and printed by Sandra Liddell Reese.