Demons martyrs
Subtitle: poems about Mutanabbi Street
By: Studio 1801, Foothill College ; edited by Judith Sutton
Contributors: Sutton, Judith, editor; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: [Studio 1801, Foothill College]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Los Altos Hills, California]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Violence; Pictorial works; Booksellers and bookselling; Bombings; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Protest movements; Books and reading in art; Intellectual life; Social conditions; Censorship; Terrorism in art; In art; War and civilization; Vehicle bombs; Visual literature; Specimens; American poetry; Artists' books; Foothill College. Studio 1801; Foothill College; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Description: This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.

Collection of poems read at an event sponsored by the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition, formed to protest the the 2007 terrorist attack in Baghdad.
Notes: Printed in an edition of 50.

"This book was printed by letterpress by students at Foothill College and is the 'first of many to be published by Studio 1801, and the Foothill Letterpress Department'"--The Bibliopolis website (viewed July 22, 2015).

"Each poem was typeset by hand using one of the following: Bembo, ATF Century Old Style Century Schoolbook, Centaur & Arrighi, Cloister Old Style, Garamond, or News Gothic. It was printed on a Reprex Flatbed Cylinder Press made in 1959 & an Old Reliable Platen Press made in 1988 by students and faculty at Studio 1801, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California"--Colophon.

"Studio 1801 is an environmentally-conscious graphic arts, printmaking, and book arts studio. The studio is operated by the Graphic & Interactive Design department (GID) at Foothill College"--Krause Center for Innovation, Foothill College website (viewed July 22, 2015).

Errata slip laid in.

On March 5th, 2007, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street is located in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. It has been the longstanding heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community for centuries. In response to the attack, a San Francisco poet and bookseller, Beau Beausoleil, rallied a community of international artists and writers to produce a collection of letterpress-printed broadsides (poster-like works on paper), artists' books (unique works of art in book form), and an anthology of writing, all focused on expressing solidarity with Iraqi booksellers, writers and readers. The coalition of contributing artists calls itself Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.

Primarily in English, with some Arabic text.