Squarings
Subtitle: a sequence of forty-eight poems
By: by Seamus Heaney ; with forty-eight drawings by Sol Lewitt and with an introduction by Helen Vendler
Contributors: Lewitt, Sol, 1928-2007, ill; Vendler, Helen, 1933-; Hoyem, Andrew, book designer; Arion Press; Mackenzie & Harris; Cartiere Enrico Magnani; Arion Press; Mackenzie & Harris
Publisher: Arion Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Dummies (Bookselling); Specimens; Square in art
Notes: Poems originally published in Seeing things (1991).

Issued in a slipcase.

"Squarings is the sixty-seventh publication of the Arion Press. The book was designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Gerald Reddan, Blake Riley, Lewis Mitchell, Peter Stoelzl, Christopher Chen, Kenneth Howard, Flannery Bateman, Charles Martin, Diana Ketcham, Laura Heyenga, and Nancy Reid. The Deepdene type, designed by Frederic W. Goudy, was cast for hand composition of the poems and in Monotype composition for the introductory essay and ancillary material by Mackenzie & Harris. The type and photo-polylmer plates for the drawings were printed by letterpress on a miller cylinder press. The paper is Pescia, a mould-made sheet from the Magnani mill in Italy. The edition is limited to 400 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution, all signed by the poet and the artist. This is copy: 164 [signature] Seamus Heaney, Sol LeWitt"--Colophon.