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A poem of beavers
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- Creator
- Jerome Rothenberg ; drawing by Marta Anderson
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Blue Mounds Township, Wisconsin : The Perishable Press Limited, [1973]
- Physical Details
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- 6 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- OCLC
- ocm02967537, ocm02967537
- Signed by the author.
- Limited edition of 97 numbered copies, signed by the author on page preceding title page.
- "In memory of Gary Gordon."
- "[A]ll of these various Japanese text papers were used because 1) we were not in production of our own 'Shadwell' at starting time & 2) it was very difficult to get any good handmade in quantity & thus the edition is small at ninety-seven ... the title page is hand-colored mostly on whim and was impossible to make more than one alike. the type is sabon & the press is vandercook's SP15"--Colophon.
- Single signature of varied Japanese handmade papers sewn into a handmade paper cover. A poem titled "Old man beaver's blessing song" is letterpress printed in brown on the front cover. Text is letterpress printed. A letterpress printed image of a man's face, beavers, and a tree is hand-colored on the title page.