The Faery Gardener:
A Pagan Primer
By Hearthstone Firetender (Michael O'Leary)
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Anagram Press, 2006. Deluxe Edition of 30.

7 x 7"; 32 pages. Letterpress printed using Optima and Bodoni type on Stonehenge and Tizano paper. Jacob's Ladder binding. Housed in a nested box. Includes packet of original illustrations by Chandler O'Leary printed in layers from photopolymer plates.

Anagram Press: "Hearthstone Firetender's poetry tells the tale of modern witchcraft set in a Maine community garden; an overview of pagan spirituality (complete with gardening tips) conveyed through a story of growing kinship with a secret admirer."

Illustrations: "Informed by photographs by Michael O'Leary, 2004-2005, using Leica Digilux I, a 1974 Yashica TL-Electro (minus the -electro function) and Uncle Sean's old Kodak Advantix, except where noted in a previous incarnation: by Scott MacDonald, 2004."

Chandler O'Leary, Colophon: "For many years, my father's garden was the centerpiece of what we called home. Now that I live in a high-rise apartment, a thousand miles away, I miss the fresh tomatoes and all-night canning sessions. Collaborating with Dad on this book is the best way I know how to contribute to the Faery Garden. Sure beats weeding....

"Included also is a packet of original illustrations....Inspiration runs the gamut from wallpaper fragments in the Open Book building in Minneapolis; my old art history notes; a conversation in a basement studio at Colorado College; reruns on Nick at Nite; and a hurried drawing in my sketchbook of a Bernini in the Galleria Borghese."
$500