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[ Pie in the Sky Press]. Ronk, MarthaBiblio.com
My Partial Tongue.
2011réf. 17905Simi Valley California: Pie in the Sky Press 2011 One of twenty-five copies. Design photography hand typesetting presswork paste papers and bindings by Rebecca Chamlee. Signed by the poet and artist. . Green morocco over green paste-paper boards. . Quarto 9 x 13 in. . Fifteen full-page color images of plants. Printed on letterpress on Rives BFK paper in Bodoni types. Images printed from multiple photo polymer plates in tight registration. Bugra endsheets. Rolled leather endbands. A fine copy in publisher's board slipcase. As new. The printer states: "My Partial Tongue by poet Martha Ronk uses phrases from an essay on gardens and plants by Sir Thomas Brown a 17th-century essayist who wrote about the order in nature. The poems have a great deal of space in them space suggestive of what is missing and of silence and reflect a feeling of distances from the natural world that seems to be disappearing… I created photographs of plants and feathers that reflect the content of the poems. The images were digitally manipulated and separated then printed in tight registration on Rives BFK." Pie in the Sky Press, hardcover
