La Récitation de l’oubli
By: Franck André Jamme ; Hanns Schimansky
Contributors: Ashbery, John, 1927- tr; Schimansky, Hanns, 1949- ill; Ergo, Rein, book designer; Margull, Fritze, 1945-
Publisher: Ergo Pers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ghent
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 68
Notes: "La Récitation de L’oubli / Les gués, les passes / The Recitation of Forgetting / Fords, channels, poems by Franck André Jamme, bilingual edition in an English translation by John Ashbery, published in October, 2009, by Ergo Press, Ghent. Each copy includes five original etchings by Hanns Schimansky, is signed on the colophon page by the author, the artist and the translator, and is further accompanied by a suite of five loose prints of the same etchings, signed and numbered by the artist. Les gués, les passes / Fords, channels, is printed in a limited edition of forty copies, numbered in Arabic numerals, with an additional series of twelve reserved copies for the author, the artist and the translator, numbered I-XII. A separate edition of six copies, reserved for participating collaborators and numbered A-F, consists of six original etchings, instead of five. The etchings were printed in Berlin by Fritze Margull. The text is set in Garamond and printed on 230-gramme Hahnemühle paper. Typography, design and printing are by Rein Ergo. "--Colophon.