Viva Voce
By: Maria G. Pisano
Contributors: Memory Press
Publisher: Memory Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Plainsboro, New Jersey]
Language: eng
Subjects: Artists' books
Notes: "Viva Voce is a response to selected landays taken from Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women's Poetry collected and edited by Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, who was subsequently assassinated. Translated by Marjolijn De Jager, Other Press, New York, 2003." -- Colophon.

"The work is made up of four libretti: Love, War, Exile and Violence. Landays from each of these themes were interwoven with visual responses and translated Persian titles. They are all contained in a supportive enclosure within which are separate folders, making each libretto removable so that they can be read, seen, or experienced independently. The images are created with collagraph plates using diverse papers, uniquely designed, intaglio and relief printed by the artist on a Charles Brand Etching press. The poems and descriptive text are letterpress printed at the Center for Book Arts in NY with Barbara Henri. The text is Zapfino and Palatino. The book measures 12"H x 8.5W" x 2"TH closed."--Colophon.

Edition of 20 signed, numbered copies.

Rare Book copy: No. 4.