Kill-box
By: [text by Joanna Rawson ; images by Fred Hagstrom]
Contributors: Hagstrom, Fred; Strong Silent Type Press
Publisher: Strong Silent Type Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [St. Paul, Minn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Illegal aliens; Poetry; Emigration and immigration in art; Artists' books
Notes: "Text is by Joanna Rawson. Her poem is about a group of men trying to cross the border who die when they are sealed in a shipping container. I tried to use design and images to convey the claustrophobic sense of her words."--Fred Hagstrom on Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website, viewed June 20, 2012.

Limited ed. of 19 copies.

"Type is verdana, [letterpress-]printed from polymer plates; images are intaglio, printed chine-colle from plastic plates; paper is BFK rives, gray, with Iwaki for the chine-colle paper."--Colophon.

Two sewn signatures bound in cloth-covered boards. Image inlaid on front cover. Issued in an artist-made, black plywood box with lid (40 x 32 x 5 cm.).

Rare Book copy: No. 19