This bilingual French-English First Edition is limited to 250 hand numbered copies signed by the artist.
It features 13 poems by the French Poet Michel Lagrange based on paintings by David Carmack Lewis along with English translations by Marc de Faoite and an introduction by David Carmack Lewis. The book features 13 full color reproductions of each of the paintings spanning 27 years of work. The original French version of each poem and its English translation are on facing pages.
Michel Lagrange is an Officer of Arts and Letters in France and Knight of the National Order of Merit.
"Many of the paintings in this book were completed when I was much younger. That they spoke to the poet about his place in his own journey testifies to the power of art... Michel and I have never met. We live in different countries. We are of different generations. I do not speak french. He does not speak English. But we understands one another. Because that is what art does. It reaches out to complete strangers and connects us though our shared humanity." –David Carmack Lewis, 2023 from the introduction