Poetry at the edge
Subtitle: five contemporary California poets
By: edited by Carolee Campbell
Contributors: Stroud, Joseph, 1943- author; Ryan, Kay, author; Young, Gary, 1951- author; Ronk, Martha Clare, author; Hannon, Michael, 1939- author; Rötzscher, Klaus-Ullrich S., binder; Clayton, Norman, printer; Ninja Press; Book Club of California; Classic Letterpress (Firm); Cave Paper (Firm); Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne; Pettingell Book Bindery
Series: The Book Club of California's 233rd publication; Publication (Book Club of California) -- no. 233.
Publisher: The Book Club of California
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 49
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: American poetry
Notes: The poems are by Joseph Stroud, Kay Ryan, Gary Young, Martha Ronk and Michael Hannon.

"Poetry at the Edge: Five Contemporary Poets is the Book Club of California's 233rd publication. Designed and edited by Carolee Campbell at Ninja Press, the book was letterpress printed in an edition of 300 copies by Norman Clayton at Classic Letterpress in Ojai, California. Each book has been signed by all five poets. The typeface is Walbaum. the text was printed onto Zerkall Frankfurt paper with Zerkall Nideggen for the endpapers. The boards of the book are covered in an indigo sheet of pure Belgian flax, handmade at Cave Paper in Minneapolis, Minn\esota especially for this edition. The book was bound by Klaus-Ulrich Rötzscher at the Pettingell Book Bindery in Berkeley, California. The photographs are by Carolee Campbell and were digitally printed at Classic Letterpress using Epson UltraChrome K3 inks"--Colophon.

"The Book Club of California's 233rd publication"--Accompanying prospectus

Rare Book copy: No. 290
Table of contents: title: Joseph Stroud; title: Kay Ryan; title: Gary Young; title: Martha Ronk; title: Michael Hannon.; title: Joseph Stroud: Lodestone; title: The room above the white rose; title: Walking; title: Death in the Tehachapis; title: City; title: First law of thermodynamics; title: A winter's tale.; title: Kay Ryan: Tune; title: Things shouldn't be so hard; title: The best of it; title: The edges of time; title: Bitter pill; title: Doubt; title: Spiderweb.; title: Gary Young: It's a joy to be subtracted; title: When I was a young man; title: The roads were closed; title: We'd been talking about the limits; title: When I step from the deck; title: The skunks and deer; title: The earth submits.; title: Martha Ronk: "I cannot remember anything about this journey other than this"; title: "This sense of numbness soon came over me"; title: "The sounds in and of themselves were less like the sounds of anyone"; title: "I sat at the window and watched it cover everything by nightfall"; title: "I was astonished at the mysterious slow motion quality of the sound"; title: "It was a photograph of a house quite like any other I had inhabited"; title: "It seemed to all of us as remarkably like suspension in time."; title: Michael Hannon: At the crossroad; title: Thanksgiving; title: Beyond freedom; title: Pure luck; title: Solstice; title: Divided self; title: Aftermath.