First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards, with dust jacket. 128 pp. with numerous duotones plates, printed by Sellier Druck GmbH, Germany, from separations by Lana Repro, Lana. 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Photographs by Catherine Wagner. Edited with text by Cornelia Homburg. Foreword by Joseph D. Ketner. Essays by William H. Gass and Helen E. Longino. Includes an artist biography, exhibition history and bibliography, brief biographies of the text contributors and an checklist of the exhibition.
Catherine Wagner teaches creative writing at Miami University in Ohio. Her publications include Macular Hole (Fence Books, 2004), Imitating (Leafe Press, 2004), Exercises (811 Books, 2004), Miss America (Fence Books, 2001). Individual poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Black Clock, Chicago Review, Fence, Five Fingers Review, New Review, and Soft Targets, among others, and in several anthologies including Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets, (Verse Press 2004). She’s working on a new book of poems, and editing two anthologies, both to appear in 2007 from Fence: one of poems by mothers and another entitled A Poetry and Politics Primer.