David H. Rosen's new illustrated poetry book:
Clouds and More Clouds (drdavidrosen@gmail.com)
illustrations by Alec Formatin Shirley (forward, in itself, so well-written by Vincent Tripi, who assisted with editing)
a (downright - upright? - lovely) letterpress limited edition from Lily Pool Press (an imprint of Swamp Press)
equally fascinating is this book's physical creation by maker
Ed Meissner (meissner@valinet.com)
who did the 'digital design, hot metal type casting in house,
Monotype casters, die cut on a Heidelberg letterpress, books sewn on
a Smyth book sewer, and the binding by hand'
(research was required for me to grasp the labor, dedication, <love> that went into making this book - Ed Meissner's creations are collected by rare book rooms all around the world)
here, an example of the intimacy between David's poems and
Alec's illustrations. . .
here are the two lines, perhaps oddly enough,
that touched me most -
. . .
full moon over Kansas City,
the world
in 1969, received my draft notice into the US Army just as we (friends and I) left for a weekend somewhere we had never been (Kansas City) . . .
while my acquaintances partied hardy, I walked Kansas City's streets and spent most of the night speaking with an elderly flower vender (who kept his small shop open all night so we could talk)
- here is the missing line -
Mother dying. . .
full moon over Kansas City,
the world
there's much more to this rare and worthy poetic/artistic endeavor, it is available from David Rosen for $24.95 postpaid drdavidrosen@gmail.com
hopefully, some of us will purchase Clouds and More Clouds. . .
we, at the very least, can feel better about many
things around/with us
because we know
this book exists.
see you in a moment
ayaz daryl nielsen darylayaz@me.com
