Blackbird Press ~ California
(Jean Gillingswators)

Weavers
By Baila Goldenthal and Maurya Simon
Upland, California: Blackbird Press, 2005. Edition of 80.

8 x 10''; 56 pages. Color copies made from photographs by Michael Honer and Michael Nelson of Baila Goldenthal's paintings. Printed with handset Optima and Times New Roman type on Zerkall Book paper, bound with Tyvek strips and handmade Japanese Kyosei-shi covers. Cream colored wraps. In clear acrylic slipcase. Book design by Jean Gillingswators.

Gillingswators: "The inspiration for producing Weavers comes from Los Angeles artist Baila Goldenthal's enigmatic Weavers Series paintings and her daughter Maurya Simon's fifteen ekphrastic poems. Goldenthal's work has been shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Skirball Museum of Art, the Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, and in many solo and group exhibitions. Simon is the author of six books of poetry, and Ghost Orchid was nominated for a 2004 National Book Award in Poetry. Accompanying each poem is a tipped-in color copy of a photograph of Goldenthal's painting."
$200