La carrera / The Race
La carrera / The Race
A Glimpse
A Glimpse
Red Ozier Press 1976-1988
Hurricane Lake
Lion Froth Crown
Lion Froth Crown
There Are Things Too Marvelous To Be Spoken Of
by Steve Miller with illustrations by Marta Anderson and Miller's handmade paper wrappers. 1979
Museum
Billy Collins penned a sweet new poem and this is its first appearance. The book measures 2.75" x 2.75", and has been letterpress-printed in three sections, sewn, consolidated, then wrapped in handmade paper. Text slides up and down from page to page.
The book is printed and wrapped in four handmade papers from Papeterie St. Armand in Montréal. There are sixty-five copies for sale, signed by the author. Published in the Spring of 2014. $125
I slid past a pencil drawing of a young girl,
a white marble statue of a warrioras
well as a vase that had managed to remainun
shattered for over three thousand years…
Steve K. Miller: "What I like about this small book, Museum, are the various handmade papers found within: their colors and textures. Of course Billy Collins' magic words are the core. I printed them from page to page, dropping toward the tail and then swinging back up to the top of the page in an ecstatic release. The words are quite extraordinary. About paying close attention to things. As I was trimming the fore edges of the text sections for binding there accumulated a scattered pile of thin paper trimmings. They were so beautiful that I scanned them and then used the scan to make a printing plate and letterpress print the wrappers. Very satisfying, and this reminds me of serendipity. Reacting to things as they reveal themselves."