14 p. "Deluxe edition is cased in a variation of the Japanese portfolio structure, with bone clasps"--Publisher's website. Haikus by Sara Pirkle Hughes, with artwork by her twin sister Amy Pirkle, telling the story of their grandmother, who left her home in Japan as a young mother to begin a new life in the 1950's American South. Design, printing, artwork, and handmade paper by Amy Pirkle
"The plates are photopolymer from the pen and ink drawings I did of the soil monoliths in the Maynard Fosberg Soil Monolith Collection at the University of Idaho ...The pages are sewn together in couplets, using what I call the baseball stitch, then I link the couplets together at the spine. I wanted the stitching to look like sutures. This series is an exploration of the philosophy of phenomenology and how things reveal themselves to us as we are working"--Artist's statement from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, website "Laid in letter-fold wrapper with paper hand-sewn at edges. Closure paper tab hand sewn to wrapper. Relief printed on Magnani Incisioni paper"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, website
Consists primarily of b&w linocuts of places with hand-carved linocut text identifying location on opposite pages; some linocuts interleaved with guardsheets; col. ill. on lining papers. Bound in brown cloth with black letterpress landscape image on the front board, spine and some of the back. Similar design used to create a blind embossed area on the back cover. End sheets have a river map and title 'Many waters'. Seven blank pages provided for notes. The colophon page is a linocut of a cemetary with headstones.