Territory

Twenty-one poems by Mary Julia Klimenko; one original mixed-media drawing and five photolithographs by Manuel Neri on Arches, Sudare, and Japanese papers. Introduction by Frances Mayes. Case binding in hand tooled leather. Linen tray case. 15 1/2” x 11 3/4”. Edition of 55. 1992.

From the Introduction by Frances Mayes: “Truth and beauty, Keats said, that’s it, all we need. Reading Klimenko’s truthful and intricate poems makes me aware of how rarely the two actually come together. Complex truth, not over easy truth, down-to-the-bone beauty, not surface beauty. Manuel Neri’s work, too, always strikes me hard with just that combination.”