Death centos
Subtitle: special edition
By: Diana Arterian
Contributors: Ugly Duckling Presse
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Description: This special edition contains a Chapbook, Broadside print, and game token. "Chapbook: A staple-bound chapbook with a letterpressed cover and a decorative stitch. This work utilizes the form of the centos to bring together people renowned through historical relevance and through incarceration in modern day. Each layered poem comes together as a group to acknowledge human ephemerality, grappling with oblivion and eternity. 12.5” x 16 3/4” letterpressed print: This broadside is based on the Goose Game which has been around for several centuries. It is an inward spiral game about the life cycle. There are usually penalty panels along the path that correlate to momentous moments. In this design, the focus is on demise. Central statement by the author. [image depicts the actual print.] Game Piece: Cast from a 2 Franc coin from 1969 which is no longer in circulation. It has natural variegation and will tarnish. In ancient mythology, the coin was a payment for the ferryman transporting the deceased from the living to the world of the dead."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "This limited-edition set includes a signed and numbered copy of Diana Arterian’s chapbook Death Centos, a numbered, letterpressed game board and a white-brass game piece. Edition of 75."--Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Chapbook contents :; title: Last words of the dying --; title: Last words of the condemned.