MEIDOSEMS

Poems and lithographs by Henri Michaux Translation by Elizabeth R. Jackson Trade edition 7″ x 9″ 184 pages ISBN 0-939952-13-0 $24.95 out of print This is just the way such books should be done… —Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature, Graduate School, City University of New York Few French poets have been served as well by a […]

LENGUAS SUELTAS: POEMAS

Poems by Elba Rosario Sánchez and seventeen others Drawings by Robert Chiarito This collection celebrates an evening of poetry curated by Elba Rosario Sánchez with Abigaíl Avelar, María-Antonieta Avila, Liliana Batista, Victorino Cervantes, Mónica González-Márquez, Christina Grijalva, Ana María Guevara, Elisabeth Gutiérrez, Marisol Guzmán, Alejandra Elite Marcandonatos, María Menjívar, Cherrí Moraga, Pablo Reguerín, Nancy Rodríguez y Clarissa Rojas. Co-published with Baytree Bookstore, UCSC. […]

COSMOGONIE INTIME Yves Peyré

français Yves Peyré is a contemporary French poet, recognized as one of the leading figures in his field. He has published many volumes of poetry, essays and livres d’artiste. For his collection of poems, Récit d’une simple saison, published by Mercure de France in 1995, he received le Prix Dada. He is Director of the […]

COSMOGONIE INTIME Yves Peyré-poet

English Yves Peyré est un poète français contemporain, reconnu comme un représentant tres apprécié dans son domaine particulier. Il a été l’éditeur de la revue littéraire l’Ire des Vents. Il a publié maints volumes de poésie, d’essais et de livres d’artiste. Son livre de poésie, Récit d’une simple saison, publié par le Mercure de France […]

COSMOGONIE INTIME Structure

The form of COSMOGONIE INTIME An Intimate Cosmogony draws on that of the 20th-century French livres d’artiste, which combined the texts and images of celebrated authors and artists in book form. Printed in an edition of 96, COSMOGONIE INTIME An Intimate Cosmogony is a 10 x 15 inch accordion-fold book composed of 20 sheets. The […]

COSMOGONIE INTIME Ray Rice

Ray Rice spent over 50 years on the modern American art scene as a painter, mosaicist and animator of experimental films. His list of awards, exhibitions and commissions in the Bay Area extends back to the early 1950s. This is his third collaboration with his daughter, Felicia Rice, of Moving Parts Press. He died in […]

COSMOGONIE INTIME Rosemary Lloyd

français Rosemary Lloyd, Rudy Professor of French and Italian Indiana University, Bloomington Commentary Set before us here is a universe created by memories, filling the air with words, so that images unfold from recollections to a rhythm of waves beating regularly in the mind, a long expanse of vision followed by a short throb of […]

COSMOGONIE INTIME Mme Rosemary Lloyd

English Mme Rosemary Lloyd Rudy Professeur au Départment de Français et d’Italien Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana USA Cette œuvre nous offre un univers qui surgit de la mémoire emplissant l’air de paroles, de sorte que les images se déplient à partir de souvenirs au rythme de vagues battant régulièrement une plage de l’esprit et créent […]

COSMOGONIE INTIME Artist’s Process

Ray Rice’s hanging strip paintings of oil on wood inspired the collaboration of poet and artist. The strip paintings can range in length from 4′ to 16′. Rice’s original drawings for COSMOGONIE INTIME An Intimate Cosmogony: The original drawings (below center) were then letterpress printed from photoengravings (below left), and stencilled with color using the pochoir method, […]