Poems by Jerome Rothenberg;
relief and intaglio prints by
Ian Tyson on custom made
Twinrocker and Kozo handmade
papers. Text hand set in Bembo.
Leporello binding housed in a
hand painted, linen covered tray
case with a sculpture mounted
on the cover. Edition of 40. 2008.
$1,600.

A new collaboration between Ian Tyson and Jerome Rothenberg, whose projects together span the past several decades. About this response to Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War, Tyson says, “the intention of the design and images was to refl ect the feeling of political and social menace in the Goya etchings which is still pertinent today. I have used the vertical and horizontal to suggest enclosed space —cells, gallows, prisons.”

From Rothenberg’s poem: “Caprichos, Goya, Lorca/all my duendes,/locked into a cage/at dawn, evading/sleep & dreams,/those whom they leave/behind them, fathers/ raising arms/to heaven,/screaming through/their empty/ mouths like caverns/black holes/where all light/is lost./ Now is the time.”