Haybarn Press ~ New York
(Ed Colker)

Open the Gates
By Ed Colker
New York: Haybarn Press, 2006. Edition of 85.

11 x 15"; 38 pages. A frontispiece facsimile of a page from the composer's hand is followed by his concert notes. The complete song texts were typeset in Palatino by Spring Salvin and printed letterpress on Rives and Canson papers by Bradley Hutchinson. The lithographs were printed by Maurice Sanchez at Derriere L'Etoile Studio with color pochoir by the artist and the cloth binding is by Portfolio box. This edition is signed by both Brubeck and Colker.

This book is a portfolio inspired by the cantata "The Gates of Justice" composed by David Brubeck. The work expresses the hope for universal justice, freedom, kindness, and peace, drawing on texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Union Prayer book, the writings of Hillel, the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. and original texts by Iola Brubeck (wife of the composer).
$ 335

The Cushite
imagined text and drawings by Elaine Galen
Millwood, New York: Haybarn Press, 2008. Edition of 60.

8.5 x 13"; 32 pages. The color drawings follow an original linoleum cut, which appears as a hand-colored frontispiece on Mulberry (initialed and numbered by the artist), and are printed as inkjet transfer on Stonehenge. The portfolio, with Fabriano end leaves, is wrapped in acid-free Canford paperboard.

This book — the fourth in a series on women of the Bible and antiquity (following Deborah, Miriam, and Lilith) — focuses on the wife of Moses, the wife that Aaron and Miriam were so angry with Moses about, the dark-skinned Ethiopian.

Woman of Moses
Born of two nations
Pale face Midianite and dark skin Cushite
Together engaged in war and love
                                  Our blood ran as one

$105

Lillith
By Elaine Galen
2005. Edition of 100.

8.5 x 11", 32 pages, signed and numbered by the artist. Hand-sewn by Barbara Mauriello. Wrapped in handmade Khadi with Canson end leaves. Typography by Spring Salvin. Title page calligraphy by Jeffrey Kelly. Drawings printed as lithography on Mohawk Superfine.

Text and drawings of this interpretation of Lillith are by Elaine Galen. This is the third in Galen's series on women of antiquity and mythology.
$87

Miriam:
Sister of Moses
By Elaine Galen
New York: Haybarn Press, 2001. Edition of 100.

8.5 x 11" hand-sewn and wrapped in Papel di Amati fig tree bark with Canson end leaves. Typography composed by Spring Salvin. Title page calligraphy drawn by Jerry Kelly. Frontispiece is full-color on Rives. Drawings were printed by Omega as lithography on Arches aquarelle. Text and drawings by Elaine Galen. Design by Ed Colker.

Told in simple, spare language and illustrated by wash-like gray lithographs, this rendering of Miriam's story foregrounds the general subordination of women in this Hebrew tribe, and of Miriam in particular.

The basic source is Exodus and Numbers. Miriam was the older sister of Aaron and Moses. It was she who placed the infant Moses in the river, and she who watched over him until the Pharaoh's daughter drew him from the water. Miriam baldly states: "It was I who saved the infant Moses….Yet only he was called / to receive the commandments at Mount Sinai." Galen's Miriam speaks out against the subordination of women "cut off from the sacred rites." She and Aaron spoke to God against Moses, who had married a Cushite: "For my outspoken ways / the Lord struck me with leprosy. For my questions, I was silenced." Moses interceded, but Miriam was "no longer permitted to speak for justice / or to lead my people."

This is the second in Galen's series devoted to the women of antiquity.
$80

Aesthetique du rale
By Michael Anania
Chicago: Haybarn Press / Editions due Grenier
1977. Edition of 100.

11 x 8.5"; 17 pages bound in a portfolio. Signed by the poet and artist with original collaborative print, signed and numbered. Type is Optima. Offset Lithography.

This portfolio album is one of a series inspired by the poet's text.
$90 (Nine copies remain in the edition)

Once again, flowered poems
By Michael Anania with drawings by Ed Colker
2000. Edition of 110.

8.75 x 5.5" with 39 pages. Covered in dark wine colored cloth. Typography in Palatino. Lithographs were printed on Arches Aquarelle. Frontispiece is on Rives and the plates related to the poems were hand colored by the artist. Binding by Barbara Mauriello. Signed on colophon by artist and poet.

This special edition celebrates close to three decades of collaboration and friendship that began at the University of Illinois in the early nineteen seventies.
$90 (Last copy)

three poems about the sounds of Jazz and the snow in Buffalo
By Michael Anania with drawings by Ed Colker
2002. Edition of 100.

5.5 x 8.5", 40 pages. Typography in Garamond. A full color frontispiece on Rives is followed by text composed by Spring Salvin with the accompanying lithographs printed on Arches aquarelle by Lori Spencer. Signed by poet and artist on the colophon. Pages of text and image are laid in paper folder with title on front. Laid-in cloth bound letter folder with black ribbon tie. Orange interior paper contrasts boldly to the purple cloth binding.

This special edition celebrates close to three decades of collaboration and friendship that began at the University of Illinois in the early nineteen seventies.
$85 (Two copies remaining in edition)

Three Poems
By Kathleen Norris
with drawings by Ed Colker
2001. Edition of 110

7.25 x 10.25" Typography in Bulmer. Frontispiece is on Rives. The plates related to the poems were hand colored by Ed Colker. A separate drawing "the air turns liquid" laid-in which is initialed by Colker. Signed on colophon by Norris and Colker.

The three poems by Norris: With You/Three Places; Three Dreams; and, Three Small Songs.
$70 (Five copies remaining in the edition)

All Souls poems from the Dakotas
By Kathleen Norris
with drawings by Ed Colker
1993. Edition of 100.

The color lithographs were printed by Lori Spencer on Rives and Arches papers in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. The text was hand-set in Baskerville by Kent Kasuboske and printed letterpress on Rives Heavyweight by Mary Phelan. Binding by Barbara Mauriello. Laid in separate print "Fierie Dakota."

In Autumn 1992, in response to the poet's invitation to see the land and sky in the southern tier of North Dakota, the artist covered seven hundred miles sketching and making visual notes of the landscape. This included a visit to the Benedictine monastery where the poet often retreats.
$300 (Two copies in edition remaining.)

from Elephants by Night - poems of Africa
By Abraham Sutzkever
2005. Edition of 90.

9 x 12" with 36 pages, numbered and signed by the translator and the artist. A full-color frontispiece on Fabriano Uno. Poetry in English typeset in Palatino by Spring Salvin. Letterpress printed by Bradley Hutchinson. Drawings printed duotone lithography by Omega. Housed in clamshell box in full cloth Canapetta with silver stamping.

A new publication from Haybarn Press in honor of the 92nd birthday of Abraham Sutzkever, the foremost living Yiddish poet. The portfolio of eighteen poems were translated by Melvin Konner and include seven drawings by Ed Colker.

From the introduction, Translator's note: "These translations try to convey a unique group of poems by one of the greatest modern poets. That they evoke so thoroughly the magic, poignancy, tragedy, nobility and strangeness of Africa is achievement enough. That they do it in Yiddish – with its ironic, diffident stance, and its, well, Jewishness – is astonishing.

Yet here they are, composed by a man who was already strong in his art in the pre-war heyday of Jewish Europe; whose mother, baby, family, and friends were murdered by Nazis; who joined the partisans and gallantly fought back; who, from those savage events, made lasting poetry; afloat in a sea of Hebrew; who traveled throughout Africa as one of Israel's emissaries, opening himself to its sources of life, risk, creativity and death; and who turned the experience into words that brilliantly refracted African light through Jewish prisms."

The poet, hunchbacked, is the loneliest of all
Creatures in the world.
His voice is in a jungle.
His prayer cannot take its measure
With the lion, struck dumb;
His childhood seems to him like the ragged antelope
In the wilderness ... outside ...
Who to love?
Dark.
Dark.
Though the lamp burns.
Its wick - a little cobra
Spits fire.
(from Termites)

$310

the summons of becoming
poems by René Char
translated by Mary Ann Caws
with lithographs by Ed Colker
marking the centenary of the poet
Millwood, New York: Haybarn Press, 2007.Edition of 50.

9 x 14"; 30 pages. Text pages and plates on French Rives BFK papers. Frontispiece printed by Graphics on Canson Mi-Teintes. Images hand-colored as pochoir by the artist. Poems typeset in Garamond. Printed letterpress by Bradley Hutchinson. Lithographs printed by Maurice Sanchez at Derrière L'Etoile Studio. Signed by the translator and the artist. Edition of 50: 40 standard in paper wrapper; 10 in cloth portfolio.

Ed Colker: "This year marks the centenary of René Char, the great surrealist poet and legendary World War II leader in the French resistance. Joining in the international tribute, we offer the summons of becoming, a portfolio edition of [8] poems translated by Mary Ann Caws, with five original prints as visual responses."

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has published widely on 20th-century avant-gardes, Surrealism and modern art, including Joseph Cornell's Theatre of the Mind, The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter, and, most recently, Glorious Eccentrics.

Colker, painter and graphic artist, founded the not-for-profit Haybarn Press for development of fine art editions in response to poetic texts.
$285 standard in paper wrapper
$375 deluxe in cloth portfolio

R. Waldo Emerson
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
1985. Edition of 200.

9.25 x 13" Text in Palatino. Frontispiece printed on Rives BFD. Drawings are offset lithography. Bound in purple paper wrappers with paper title on front.

This edition was conceived to mark the approach of the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay on Nature and grew out of special studies at New York University.
$150

from A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
By Walt Whitman
Philadelphia, PA: 1988. Edition of 100.

8.5 x " with 15 pages. The frontispiece are Whitman's notes. Typography is Monotype Deepdene. Printed Letterpress by Mary Phelan.

This edition was conceived to mark the 100th anniversary of the publishing of "November Boughs" which included this reflective essay on the poet's work. The original publication took place in Philadelphia as does this presentation.
$100 (Last two copies)

An Ark of Stars: Poems
By Rose Auslander
1989. Edition of 100.

11.75 x 8.25" with 24 pages in wraps. Typography in Monotype Ehrhardt. hand-printed letterpress by Mary Phelan. Pochoir by Ed Colker. Translation by Ingeborg Wald.

This edition is one of a series initiated in 1960, inspired by poet's texts. A first reading of the poetry of Rose Auslander took place on April 14, 1986 at the A. D. White House of Cornell University, sponsored by the Council of the Creative and Performing Arts.

Rose Auslander, born in 1901, was a published poet and essayist in Europe prior to World War II. In forced labor, and later in hiding, she survived the war, spent time in the United States and returned to Europe often, searching for a permanent home. She finally settled in Dusseldorf in 1965. Her last poems were written during bed-ridden years. She died in the Home for Jewish Aged in Dusseldorf in January 1988.
$90

Haybarn Press Out of Print Title:
• Beneath the Trees
• Neruda, seven poems
• Poems of the Sea and of the Land