Poems by Bill Kelly; one-of-a-kind
paintings and hand painted
intaglios by Michele Burgess
on Gampi paper. Text hand
set in Gill Sans. Hand printed
case binding covered in Gin
Nunome paper and housed in a
chitzu covered in Japanese silk.
Edition of 30. 2006. (One copy
remaining.) $2,700.

Inspired by a conservator’s notes on an Italian Herbal, circa 1500, housed at the Bailey-Howe Library at the
University of Vermont; bandaged stone fi gures at the twelfth-century Cloister of Saint Trophime in Arles,
France; photographs of Warsaw, Poland, after the World War II bombings there; and visits to the sites of forest fires and fire storms in the western United States.

“Is it necessary to forget in order to remember? . . . No amount of repair can save the shape of a forgotten memory.” Painted ghost trees frame the poems and prints as would a Greek chorus of witnesses.