Research Catalog

Title

To Persephone : poems / by Eavan Boland ... [et al.] ; lithographs by Enid Mark.

Publication

Wallingford, Pa. : ELM Press, 2000.

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Mark, Enid.
• Boland, Eavan.
• Dove, Rita.
• DuPlessis, Rachel Blau.
• Gilbert, Celia, 1932-
• Glück, Louise, 1943-2023.
• Hope, A. D. (Alec Derwent), 1907-2000.
• Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006.
• Sheck, Laurie.
• Willard, Nancy.
• Sheesley, Timothy P.
• Keleher, Daniel.
• Kelly, Jerry, 1955-
• Koutsouros, John Paul.
• Blumenthal, Barbara B. (Barbara Borenstein).
• ELM Press. pbl
• Press and Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler.
• Wild Carrot Letterpress. prt

Description

[37] p. : ill. (some col.); 37 cm. +

Subjects

• Mark, Enid
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Centaur (Monotype)
• American poetry > 20th century
• Livres d'artistes > United States > 21st century
• Pomegranate in art
• Pomegranate > Poetry
• Persephone (Greek deity) > Poetry
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Arrighi

Genre/Form

• Livres d'artistes – United States – 21st century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Centaur (Monotype)
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Arrighi.

Note

• "Forty-five numbered copies of this book and ten artist's proofs were printed ... "--Colophon.
• "The lithographs were hand-pulled by Timothy P. Sheesley, Corridor Press, Otego, New York. The types, Monotype Centaur and Arrighi, were cast at the Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, New York, and printed by Daniel Keleher, Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley, Massachusetts. This edition marks the new millennium with a digitally printed landscape scanned from the same transparences used for the lithographs. The images were digitized by Jonathan Lewis and Michal Smith and printed on an Iris ink jet printer at the Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The calligraphy is by Jerry Kelly, New York City. The pomegranate seeds were formed by glass artist John Paul Koutsouros, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . The pages are Arches Velin, Denril Vellum and Rives Heavyweight. Barbara B. Blumenthal, Northampton, Massachusetts, hand bound the edition"--Colophon.
• Letterpress printed on double leaves of Arches Velin. There are 3 double-page lithographs, the first and last on folded leaves, and 6 small lithographs on tipped-in sheets of translucent Denril Vellum.
• Accompanied by digital print on sheet 32 x 126 cm., folded to 32 x 22 cm, in a gray Bugra paper folder.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's cream Japanese cloth; front cover has 6 red glass pomegranate seeds mounted in a recessed compartment. Issued in cream Japanese cloth-covered clamshell box with gray paper spine label.

Contents

Pomegranate / Louise Glück -- The return of Persephone / A.D. Hope -- The animals welcome Persephone / Nancy Willard -- Persephone / Laurie Sheck -- The pomegranate / Eavan Boland -- Pomegranate / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- For Proserpine / Stanley Kunitz -- Persephone ascending / Celia Gilbert -- The narcissus flower / Rita Dove.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2000 10-284

LCCN

2002553132

OCLC

50476789

Title

To Persephone : poems / by Eavan Boland ... [et al.] ; lithographs by Enid Mark.

Imprint

Wallingford, Pa. : ELM Press, 2000.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 34; signed in pencil by Enid Mark.

Local Note

Prospectus ([1] leaf) laid in.

Binding

Publisher's cream Japanese cloth; front cover has 6 red glass pomegranate seeds mounted in a recessed compartment. Issued in cream Japanese cloth-covered clamshell box with gray paper spine label.

Connect to:

Publisher's description

Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Wallingford.

United States Massachusetts Hadley.

Added Author

Mark, Enid. Lithographer

Boland, Eavan.

Dove, Rita.

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau.

Gilbert, Celia, 1932-

Glück, Louise, 1943-2023.

Hope, A. D. (Alec Derwent), 1907-2000.

Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006.

Sheck, Laurie.

Willard, Nancy.

ELM Press. Publisher

Sheesley, Timothy P. Printer of plates

Press and Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler.

Keleher, Daniel. Printer

Wild Carrot Letterpress. Printer

Kelly, Jerry, 1955- Calligrapher

Koutsouros, John Paul.

Blumenthal, Barbara B. (Barbara Borenstein). Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2000 10-284