Walking Through: Meditations on the Ordinary
By Judy Anderson & Ginny Holye
Denver, Colorado: Judy Anderson, 2009. Second edition of 50.
(A First Edition of 2 was issued in 2005.)

9.75 X 8.5"; 84 unnumbered pages. Hardbound in boards with black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original haiku and poems with reproductions of monotypes, collage, and both black-and-white and duotone photographs.

This is the second collaboration between artist Judy Anderson and poet Ginny Hoyle. The book is comprised of 16 free verse poems linked by haiku that move through the cycle of the seasons, beginning and ending in winter, unified by a separate thread of text that walks through the simple lessons of a lifetime, from youth to old age. The poetry is supported and enhanced by images of trees, rushing water, bamboo, courtyards and cobbled streets wet with rain (patrolled by pigeons with human feet walking through) all closely observed.

The photographic images draw on Anderson's experiences during residencies in Rome and Centrum Arts Colony in Washington State.

Judy Anderson: "This book is an affirmation of the peace I find in nature reflected in the work of poet Ginny Hoyle. As two women raised in the ominous cold peace that followed WWII, we found the march to war [the second Iraq war] and its escalation strangely familiar and heartbreaking. This work could only have been created at this point in my life as a woman, as I questioned daily the values and judgment of the Bush administration. ...

All images were shot with a 35-mm camera and printed conventionally (in a darkroom)."

Ginny Hoyle: "In March 2000 I began composing haiku as a writing drill. The exercise became a deep pleasure, one that planted the seeds of many of the longer poems in Walking Through. The haiku and short poems in Walking Through are infused with the weather, peace, and wisdom of dawn walks beside the old Highline Canal that cuts through central Denver, year-round walks shared with close friends-for more than 20 years. We walk through the puzzles of our lives in a precious and troubled world, on a shared path as darkness recedes and light fills the sky. We have walked through times of sorrow and times of joy, years of peace and years of war, as our children have grown to adults starting families of their own. For me, these walks have become a kind of walking meditation - an occasion to practice open-hearted awareness of the present moment just as it is."
$185

House of Rivers, House of Clay
By Judy Anderson & Ginny Hoyle
Denver, Colorado: Judy Anderson, 2007. Edition of 6.

9.75 X 12.75 x 1"; 178 pages. Images were printed by a high resolution archival digital press on Kozo-Shi paper by Infinite Editions. Text printed on a digital Epson Photo 2000. Domtar Solutions text sheets, Canson Mi-Teintes endsheets. Casebound, cloth with foil-stamp titles, handsewn onto tapes.

This fine press edition of 37 poems was part of an installation by artist Judy Anderson and poet Ginny Hoyle at the Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, Colorado. Each poem is allowed its own quiet space. The four sections (roughly thematic groups: earth, air, fire, water) are separated by a page of images from the installation.

Judy Anderson: "This is the only full publication of all the poems that comprised the installation House of Rivers, House of Clay (Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, Colorado ). Individual poems have been published in other poetry journals....The installation takes liberties with each poem where the form of the word, the material, shape, sequence express the content in a very subjective way. Since the poems in the exhibition were not readable in a linear format, we decided to create a quiet typographic book where the form of each poem was neutral, allowing the reader to visualize the ideas each represents. The installation was pushing the idea of book; the manuscript celebrates the traditional book form."

Anderson and Hoyle have collaborated for over 20 years.

Ginny Hoyle, member of Denver's Lighthouse Writers Workshop, is an award-winning writer/poet with roots in journalism and copywriting. Two poems in this collection, "House of Clay" and "I Was Sixteen," have been selected for publication in the 2007 edition of MARGIE, a national poetry journal and past winner of the Book Critics Circle Award in March.

Judy Anderson, artist and teacher, has taught at universities in Washington, Colorado and California. She is the director of PlatteForum, an artist residency program and innovative art education facility in Denver that connects working artists with underserved youth. Her artist books are exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Europe and the former Soviet Union, and are part of major national collections in the United States and Germany.
$950 (Last copy)