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An essay and two poems by Dana Gioia; with an afterword by Gabriel Rummonds. With a frontispiece taken from a wood engraving by John Balkwill. Composed by Michael and Winifred Bixler in Monotype Dante and printed on dampened Magnani mouldmade paper by Gabriel Rummonds, with the assistance of Patricio Gatti, John T. McQuillen, Page Thomas, and Barbara & Fred Voltmer, on the Ashendene Albion press in Bridwell Library at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Quarter-bound by Craig Jensen at BookLab II in deer vellum with patterned papers over boards by Lucio Passerini. The patterned papers were printed by Bradley Hutchinson at Digital Letterpress. This project was partially funded by a Bridwell Visiting Artist Fellowship, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Director. Edition: eighty numbered copies,
signed by the author and the artist, of which sixty are for sale.
12 pages. Please send all inquiries and
orders to: E-mail: g.rummonds@att.net Craig Jensen, the binder, has
his own website, |
A Note from Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Between the years 1966 and 1988, I issued forty-two limited editions with the Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia imprints. All but the first three items were printed on iron handpresses. On Being a California Poet by Dana Gioia, with a frontispiece taken from a wood engraving by John Balkwill, is the first book I have printed since closing my presses in September 1988 -- it will, most likely, also be the last. In the interim, my practical printing experience has been limited to two workshops at Rochester Institute of Technology and the printing of a commemorative broadside for the fiftieth anniversary of Bridwell Library at Southern Methodist University. As a direct result of the latter project I was awarded a Bridwell Visiting Artist Fellowship for April 2003, which provided me with a press on which to print the Gioia book. Again, as for the broadside, Patricio Gatti came up from Buenos Aires to help me the first week. The other assistants are listed in the description of the book. |
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