Photography. Limited edition of 1800, numbered. Tipped in are thirty square color portrait plates by Williams of poets, artists, photographers, and musicians, among them William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg, H.D., and Lorine Niedecker. Glassine dust jacket in publisher's stiff paper slipcase.
Author City: Scaly Mountain, NC USA
Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) founded the Jargon Society—a publisher dedicated to experimental fiction, photography, and visionary folk art—and has championed the underdog, maverick, and outsider in the arts for fifty years. He has also published over 100 of his own books, pamphlets, and broadsides of poetry, essays, and photography. He lived on Skywinding Farm in rural North Carolina.
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