Poem by Sandra Alcosser in
response to six etchings by
Michele Burgess. Text hand set
in Romulus printed on Mulberry
paper. Etchings printed on
Fabriano paper. Japanese stab
binding in silk. Cloth enclosure.
Edition of 10. 2001. $7,500.

Sandra Alcosser: “One must look up to enter these etchings, tip one’s chin, exposing the throat. The brain,
the crown, moves off center, lifting the heart, permitting correspondence with darkness. I lived with (these) etchings for several months. Conversed with them. To collaborate is to travel in the imaginary of another, to abandon one’s solitary practices. At night while I slept, my feet grew sooty.”

The third book in the “Women in the Western Landscape” series that includes Sleeping Inside the Glacier and Glyphs. This book was designed to the scale of the human body at 44” x 31”. Each stanza of the poem moves down on each page, as a meteor falls. The iridescent red silk cover acts as a lure to the “sooty”
black aquatints inside.