Available for $250, plus shipping and handling.

*a note on Blake:

“In 1788, at the age of 31, Blake began to experiment with relief etching, a method he would use to produce most of his books, paintings, pamphlets and poems. The process is also referred to as illuminated printing, and final products as illuminated books or prints. Illuminated printing involved writing the text of the poems on copper plates with pens and brushes, using an acid-resistant medium. Illustrations could appear alongside words in the manner of earlier illuminated manuscripts. He then etched the plates in acid to dissolve the untreated copper and leave the design standing in relief (hence the name).

This is a reversal of the normal method of etching, where the lines of the design are exposed to the acid, and the plate printed by the intaglio method. Relief etching (which Blake also referred to as “stereotype” in The Ghost of Abel) was intended as a means for producing his illuminated books more quickly than via intaglio. Stereotype, a process invented in 1725, consisted of making a metal cast from a wood engraving, but Blake’s innovation was, as described above, very different. The pages printed from these plates then had to be hand-coloured in water colours and stitched together to make up a volume. Blake used illuminated printing for most of his well-known works.”

– Wikipedia

Lauren says: I’m very pleased to announce that my second book, Silence is an Orchard, is now complete. The 14 images in the book were taken during the summers of 2008 and 2009 in Maine, a land filled with a beauty only believed when seen.

You can see more on her blog and you can find us at a table together at Codex Bookfair in Berkeley next week!

Friday, November 19th at 7pm
R.Michelson Galleries (lower space)
132 Main Street  Northampton, MA 01060

Archeologies of Loss deals with collective memories, their loss and disintegration but also their rediscovery and unearthing through individual histories–  those of Sarah Lantz and her poems. Lantz, who passed away suddenly in September 2007 just after the publication of her first book, Far Beyond Triage, explores themes of the passing of time, absence, deterioration and loss in her poems.

This project was made possible in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland Oregon.

Artist book by Sarah Horowitz

Saturday, October 16th, 2010 at 4-5:30 pm
Multnomah County Central Library, US Bank Room
801 S.W. 10th Avenue, Portland, OR 97205

Sarah Horowitz, accompanied by Willa Schneberg, Don Colburn and Margarita Donnelly, will be presenting and reading from Archeologies of Loss, an artist book of poems by Sarah Lantz with etchings and design by Sarah Horowitz.

Archaeologies of Loss deals with collective memories, their loss and disintegration but also their rediscovery and unearthing through individual histories, in this case, those of Sarah Lantz and her poems. Lantz, who passed away suddenly in September 2007 just after the publication of her first book, Far Beyond Triage, explores themes of the passing of time, absence, deterioration and loss in her poems.

Willa Schneberg received the Oregon Book Award in Poetry. Her most recent collection is Storytelling in Cambodia, Calyx Books.

Don Colburn is a freelance writer and journalist in Portland. His third collection of poems, Because You Might Not Remember, is due out in November from Finishing Line Press. He met Sarah Lantz when they both were students in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College.

Margarita Donnelly is one of the founding editors of CALYX, Inc. and the current Director. She publishes CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women and CALYX Books.  As the publisher of Far Beyond Triage by Sarah Lantz, she worked closely with Sarah during the publication of her book. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the American Book Award for co-editing The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women’s Anthology. She has edited eight anthologies for CALYX. Her writing is widely published and she regularly reviewed books for The Oregonian in the 1990s.

Jim Carmin and the John Wilson Special Collections, Multnomah County Library have made this event possible. This project is supported in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

Archeologies of Loss is a limited edition artist’s book of poems by Sarah Lantz with ten botanical etchings by myself, and an epilogue by Eleanor Wilner. This project was made possible in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

We estimate over 3000 people will attend the four day event, with 150 presses, artists, and suppliers from all over the world exhibiting and selling at the book fair, and 250 artists, collectors, and curators participating in the BORDERS AND COLLABORATIONS symposium focusing on global collaboration to strengthen and enhance the future of the book arts.