Lettre Sauvage ~ California
(Fiona Spring & Genevieve Yue)

IN THE OPEN FIELD
By Stephen Dunn
Santa Paula, California: Lettre Sauvage, 2007. Edition of 176.

7 x 13"; single sheet. Letterpress printed from copper dies and a linoleum block onto Ingres printmaking papers. Signed and numbered by Dunn.

Lettre Sauvage: "An original broadside by Stephen Dunn. Dunn won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for Different Hours, and is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey.

"'In The Open Field' was published in The Insistence of Beauty by Norton in 2004. On the collection, The Literary Review remarks, 'Dunn's poems reveal a mind alive within its own inner-circlings, the transforming power of loss, the fictions that lead to the core of our truths, the possibility and reality of loving another again."
$35

4th Choral Ode from Euripides Hippolytos
Translated by Anne Carson
Santa Paula, California: Lettre Sauvage, 2006. Edition of 150.

7 x 10"; single sheet. Letterpress printed from copper plates on Twinrocker handmade papers in two colors, Cripple Creek and Sagebrush. Scorched with smoldering tea leaves and a butane torch. Numbered. Initialed by Carson.

Lettre Sauvage: "A limited edition broadside featuring the 4th Choral Ode from Euripides Hippolytos (1268-1281), translated by Anne Carson. Hippolytos was published as a part of Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (NYRB Classics, 2006). It was also the inaugural play directed by Stephen Sachs at the reopened Getty Villa in September 2006.

"Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. She remarks in her preface to the book, ‘There is in Euripides some kind of learning that is always at the boiling point. It breaks experiences open and they waste themselves, run through your fingers. Phrases don't catch them, theories don't hold them, they have no use. It is a theater of sacrifice in the true sense. Violence occurs; through violence we are intimate with some characters on stage in an exorbitant way for a brief time; that's all it is.’”
$35.