Robin Price, Printer & Publisher

Robin Price, Printer & Publisher ~ Connecticut


The Journey of the Guitar: A Portrait of Pepe Romero Reflections on his work in his own words by the world-renowned musician. Selected and edited by Robin Price. Compiled from oral and written sources including transcriptions from private lessons and master classes, interviews, and film, with some additional material from unpublished manuscripts. With an original palladium print of a guitar by James W. Pitts on the title page. The deceptively simple presentation, following as it does upon Price's recent works Ravaged with Joy and Altar Book for Gorécki, contains an intriguing composition that is part scholarly investigation, part poetic portrait of the artist drawn from various sources with subtly printed marginal annotations. The landscape format recalls the photo album, here with textual snapshots. Titled sections include an homage to his father and groupings of Romero's thoughts on: interpreting and performing; the guitar as friend; and transcendence through music. Transcriptions span the years from 1986 to 1998. Letterpress from Bodoni Book with, appropriately, Stradivarius titling on Frankfurt white paper. Romero's eulogy to his legendary guitarist father, Celedonio Romero, his only teacher, and a dedication at the front are strikingly printed in gold ink on black Fabriano Italia. As always, Price's printing and her detailed research into and presentation of her material are impeccable. Bound with a long-stitch variation over black tapes attached to black four-ply covers. A window in the front cover reveals Pitts' guitar. A glossy vellum wrapper protects the book. Edition of 200. (7 x 10.25 inches; 65 pp.) Exceptionally handsome and satisfying. $375

Ravaged with Joy By William Everson. Edited, designed, and printed by Robin Price. Six dramatic woodcuts by Keiji Shinohara. This exquisite edition is a record of the live performance of his poems given by Everson at the University of California, Davis in May of 1975. It marked Everson's cathartic return to the campus where, five years earlier, he had given the notorious reading in which he entered as Brother Antoninus and left as William Everson after publicly casting off his monk's robe at the conclusion. The original recording, made by Sidney Berger who wrote the introduction for this edition, is reproduced on a CD included with the book. Final authorized versions of the poems were provided by Everson's executor, Bill Hotchkiss, who documents textual differences from the earlier recording. Poet Gary Young translated Everson's meditative speech between the poems into lines of verse and wrote a brief editorial note on that verse rendering. Housed in the back cover is a booklet, "The Experience of an Everson Reading," that contains essays by various authors (Robert Hass, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, et al.) that reveal the spellbinding, risk-taking excursion that was a "typical" Everson reading. Handsomely printed on a pale grey paper custom made for the edition by John and Kathy Koller. Binding co-designed by Daniel Kelm. Walnut-dyed flax paper over boards; exposed long-stitch sewing; slipcase. The soft-hued woodblock prints, most spanning the double-page spread, were created for and typographically integrated with the text. They contribute to the serene elegance of this scholarly and artistic edition. (13 inches square; 36 pp.) Edition of 150. $850 The Experience of an Everson Reading CD recording of William Everson reading at UC Davis in 1975. More than any other poet of his generation, Everson embraced the dual role of poet and printer as a vocation. This companion booklet to Ravaged with Joy includes a transcription by Sidney Berger of Everson's spontaneous remarks during the May 16th reading, and a small collection of remembrances by noted poets. Letterpress. Edition 350. (8.5 x 6 inches; 12 pp.) $36

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