Steven Sorman ~ New York

Lessons From The Russian:
Poems I, II, III
By Lee Blessing
Mt. Kisco, NY: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1999. Edition of 20.

12.25 x 9" with 21 poetry pages. Encased in a paper folio with mezzotint collage on the front cover and lithographic lettering along the spine. All images handprinted on 11.5 x 8.25" "Richard de Bas Blanc Narcisse" handmade paper except the Trail Proofs on 12 x (" light blue "Hodgkinson" handmade paper. Folio mezzotint printed on buff hanga, a Japanese machine-made kozo fiber paper. Poetry printed on "Zanders" machine-made vellum. Singed and numbered by the artist on the colophon.

Three poems by Lee Blessing are accompanied by twenty one mezzotints with engraving by Steven Sorman. This was a collaboration with Tyler Graphics Ltd. from 1993 to 1999 under the supervision of Kenneth Tyler. Sorman created twenty mezzotints on copper plates, one on a brass plate, and twenty engravings on copper plates in early 1990 for a series of prints titled Santos-Santeros which was published in 1994. Many of these plates were reworked to accompany Blessing's poems.
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                               Ya zhdu.

                                I wait.
                                I am waiting.
                                I will continue
                                to wait.