Lettre Sauvage ~ California
(Fiona Spring & Genevieve Yue)

The Forest Drive
By Fiona Spring, Jackson Wheeler, Brynn Saito, Désirée Morales, John Charles Shippey, Sophia Kidd
Santa Paula, California: Lettre Sauvage, 2009. Edition of 85.

8.5 x 5"; 16 pages. Typographical images by Cameron Leggett. Cover design by Fiona Spring. Handset Bembo on Crane's Lettra paper. Pamphlet stitched.

Fiona Spring: "The Forest Drive is an impulse to the tragetory of a crone's gaze. It is automatic typesetting inside a reflective window. It is rolling dice on The Pilgrim's Hymnal to find words to give as aperatifs to very hungry people.

"Portraits have a billboard quality, selling a type to our hearts. The space of a headshot is familiar as a door, a bowl, a table; it's [sic] geometry is universal. This collection questions and accepts place - smog in our lungs, fear in our hearts, grit under our nails, hurt us into wisdom that suffices.

"This press collects expressions that will succumb to cranking steel; the subtle, half-conscious conversations too slow to follow can be kept here at Lettre Sauvage."

Lettre Sauvage: "Chapbook featuring poems by Desiree Morales, Fiona Spring, Jackson Wheeler, Sophia Kid and John Charles Shippey and concrete poems by Cameron Leggett. The vivid cover printed in three colors including absenc of color, was rendered using shredded pieces of waste polymer. Interior images include antique printing blocks and an abstract monoprint."
$15

Negative Sky
By Genevieve Yue
Santa Paula, California: Lettre Sauvage, 2008. Edition of 80.

8.25 x 6"; 21 pages. Scanned snapshots altered digitally. Images printed using photopolymer plates by a Chandler & Price platen press. Text printed from magnesium plates on a Pilot tabletop press. Bound with a chipboard cover and rice paper spine.

Genevieve Yue: “In March 2006, I found a collection of old photographs in a novelty store in Taos, New Mexico. Very few of the pictures came with any identification, and it was evident that many had been torn out of albums and scrapbooks. I selected eight images and wrote pieces accompanying each. They were, to me, like ghosts: I knew little about where they came from, but was immediately struck, even haunted, by the expressions and postures that had been frozen in the photographs. I wanted Negative Sky, in writing and in print, to convey this sense of both intimacy and distance.”

Lettre Sauvage: "The old, faded snapshots were scanned and 'translated' digitally in a mimesis of the poet's own claiming and distorting of the images. ... The poems were printed from magnesium plates on the Pilot tabletop press to achieve the uneven quality that makes some of the words seem out of focus."
$24

Coqui, Coqui
By Benjamin Jackson
Santa Paula, California: Lettre Sauvage, 2005. Edition of 50.

10 x 10"; 4 loose sheets. Letterpress printed from magnesium plates on Stonehenge art papers. Laid in paper wrap cover accented with watercolor. Signed and numbered by the poet.

Lettre Sauvage: "A limited edition folio featuring the four-part poem, 'Coqui, Coqui,' by Benjamin Jackson. Jackson received his M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College and has been published in the New England Review."

The folio contains one sheet per section of poem: I. The Art of Loving; II. Toco Polo; III. Dreaming of Echo; IV. Mimesis.
(SOLD)