Lost Crow - Perdu: Corneille
By Jim Natal
2005. Edition of 100.
2.375 x 2.375" miniature hardbound with Japanese bookcloth cover. An accordion fold book in a dos-a-dos construction. Housed in a thick paper slipcase covered in bookcloth with image on front cover. Digital printing on Strathmore paper. Font used Schneidler & Confidential. Color images were created from details of original painting. Book design by Tania Baban.
Baban uses a dos-a-dos book construction to present a French translation as well as an English one of this poem by Jim Natal. A lovely presentation of Natal's poem accompanied with artwork by Dave Newman.
Maybe it should have said
FREE instead of LOST.
Maybe it's the same crow
I hear down the block
puncturing the morning
with insistent counterpoint
to the soap-smooth
Sunday love songs. ...
$300 |