Read more about Leo and see the art from Crossing America by clicking here. Michael McCurdy engraved the title page and jacket wood-engraved portrait of the poet for this letterpress edition. This first-edition novella in the Penmaen Fiction Series features a McCurdy wood engraving. The regular edition is sold out. An unconventional novella, printed here for the first time, contains a wood engraving by Berta Golahny.
Passion is brilliant.
An offset second printing of a remarkable book of poetry that sold out its letterpress edition in six months. This first-edition work includes a record of all Penmaen Press books, broadsides, and ephemera from 1968 to 1978. Poem Upon the Lisbon Earthquake by Voltaire Illustrated with wood engravings by the famous Lynd Ward, this beautiful bilingual edition has a specially commissioned translation by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht and an introduction by National Book Award scholar, the late Arthur M. Wilson. Few copies are left. This first-edition collection of poetry by the noted poet, photographer, and former Andy Warhol associate was published in 1975.