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The Rooted
Heart
Sylvia Um
Paper in glassine sleeve; Price: $25
Japanese Paper over boards; Price: $40 ISBN 1-888553-07-3
The Rooted Heart was written
during the poet’s treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and
is her only published collection. Sylvia
Um, who died in 1997, won the Arizona
Regents’ Academic Achievement Award and the Hattie Lockett Poetry
Award. This chapbook celebrates and commemorates her life and work. The
cloth edition is hand sewn into boards covered in white or tan Japanese
ceremonial paper. An abstracted "image" of Um’s class
notes, blind-stamped into pillowy-white Rives BFK paper, appears on the
cover of the paper edition.
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Anatomy of Desire
Lucinda Bliss and Alison
Deming
The Daughter/Mother Sessions
with introductory essay "Immanent Desire" by Faith
Wilding
Price: $25 ISBN 1-888553-11-1
What might happen if an English professor,
a powerful voice in modern poetry and creative nonfiction, conspired
with her daughter, a visual artist and young mother, to articulate
desire? The dialogue that ensues, in the words of Faith Wilding, "is
an opening into fearsome and sublime territories, where home comforts
and home truths are scarce; where ancient hierarchies and silences
have been broken."
Anatomy of Desire is
a poetic dialogue between visual artist/daughter Lucinda Bliss
and writer/mother Alison Deming about
the nature of desire:
Desire enlivens our art and our lives. We
are interested in the radical possibilities of articulating that
desire. In exploring the culture of maternity through the lens
of our particular experience, we want to illuminate some of the
fictions we have supported in ourselves and in each other and
ask what personal and cultural systems these fictions have served.
The book construction reflects the revelation,
femininity, and equality of the author’s dialogue. The cover
of the portfolio features an image by Bliss—a long black slit,
stitched across, the opening of which feels like an act of delicate
undressing. "Immanent Desire," the essay by Faith
Wilding, is printed on a single, unbound folio of white, eighty-pound,
vertically striated cover stock. Beneath the essay the spare, heartfelt,
dialogue is printed on vertical facing pages, like panels of a
French door. The printed conversation happens side by side, mother's
voice on the right, daughter's on the left as if the two were speaking
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