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Love in the time of war

Title
Love in the time of war / Yusef Komunyakaa.
Author
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Publication
  • Middletown, Connecticut : Robin Price, Publisher, [2013]
  • ©2013
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TextBy appointment only Spencer Coll. Amer. 2013 15-66Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Additional Authors
  • Price, Robin (Glenna Robin)
  • De Nigris, Brittany
  • Kelm, Daniel E.
  • Robin Price (Publisher), publisher.
  • Wide Awake Garage, bookbinder.
Description
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 27 cm
Subject
  • Price, Robin
  • Iraq War (2003-2011)
  • 2003 - 2011
  • Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Poetry
  • Sonnets, American
  • Love poetry, American
  • War poetry, American
  • Love in art
  • War in art
  • Grids (Crisscross patterns) in art
  • Artists' books > United States > Specimens
  • Artists' books
  • Love poetry
  • War poetry
  • Iraq
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
  • Cloth printings (Printing) – United States – 21st century.
  • Special materials printings (Printing) – United States – 21st century.
  • Aluminum bindings (Binding) – United States – 21st century.
  • Bookbinding (Binding) – Metal bindings.
  • Aluminum (Metal)
  • Metal.
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – Adobe Jenson Pro.
  • Poetry.
  • Specimens.
Note
  • "There are 70 copies in the edition"--Colophon.
  • "Yusef Komunyakaa began writing these poems in 2003, when the United States invaded Iraq"--Page 3.
  • "The 25 poems are printed letterpress with silver ink in Adobe Jenson Pro from polymer plates. The sheets are individually painted, hand-dyed silk ... Small pieces of Moriki paper and printed glassine [paper] are sewn inside the foredge [fore-edge]-folded sheets. The aluminum covers are photochemically etched in a pattern based on camouflage fabric. Daniel E. Kelm co-designed the modified paper-case book structure using handmade Cave Paper, and he produced the binding at his Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, Massachussetts. Design, coloration, and printing are by Robin Price with great assistance from and collaboration with Brittany De Nigris"--Colophon.
  • Volume contains 19 double leaves of dark brown silk, hand-died in a grid pattern, most with torn or cut fragments of various colored or metallic papers sewn inside fold. First and last leaves are without printing.
Binding (note)
  • Issued in binding with board spine and die-cut and etched aluminum panels over handmade paper as front and back covers; enclosed in buff paper portfolio with paper spine label, printed in silver.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. Amer. 2013 15-66
ISBN
  • 0924433140
  • 9780924433146
OCLC
860864470
Author
Komunyakaa, Yusef, author.
Title
Love in the time of war / Yusef Komunyakaa.
Publisher
Middletown, Connecticut : Robin Price, Publisher, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Spencer Coll. copy is no. 39/70; signed by Komunyakaa and Price.
Binding
Issued in binding with board spine and die-cut and etched aluminum panels over handmade paper as front and back covers; enclosed in buff paper portfolio with paper spine label, printed in silver.
Local Note
Spencer Coll. copy is accompanied by prospectus (1 sheet) and folder titled "Visual backstory (3 pages)."
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Publisher's description
Chronological Term
2003 - 2011
Place of Publication
United States Connecticut Middletown.
Added Author
Price, Robin (Glenna Robin), artist, book designer, printer.
De Nigris, Brittany, artist, book designer, printer.
Kelm, Daniel E., bookbinder.
Robin Price (Publisher), publisher.
Wide Awake Garage, bookbinder.
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. Amer. 2013 15-66
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