Walt Whitman
Starting from Paumanok, 1998
Merano: Offizin S.
One of thirty-five copies. Two illustrations signed by the artist, Carrie C. McCoy.
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Quarto. (18)ff. McCoy's woodcuts evoke the breadth of the craft and its particular significance to American book design, here with an international jag to Italy. The press, Offizin S., maintained...
Quarto. (18)ff. McCoy's woodcuts evoke the breadth of the craft and its particular significance to American book design, here with an international jag to Italy. The press, Offizin S., maintained an interest in reproducing poetry in small editions of eccentric design; among its issuances by American authors, all of them now scarce, are works by Robinson Jeffers and by two of the most famous crossers of Italian and American literary and geographical borders, Ezra Pound and his daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz. Adding to this sense of boundaries permeated by poetry—this also embedded, of course, in Whitman's poetry—are interludes of typographic experimentation with the names of states. A suitably wandering approach to this excerpt from "Leaves of Grass." Bound in tan printed wrappers showing light bumps only to spine, near fine. Unrecorded.