Kintsugi (letterpress)

by Thomas Meyer

"Sit so you don't hurt the grass," says Meyer. "An impossible grace." Robert Kelly remarks in his foreword, "Tom calls the forty-eight threnodic pulses of his observation of Jonathan's dying, his own surviving, by a curious Japanese word, kintsugi, which he describes as the 'practice of repairing ceramics with gold-laced lacquer to illuminate the breakage.' So the very rupture is what is highlighted: the error becomes the meaning of the text."

Three-color letterpress on Fabriano wraps. Hand-stitched. Celadon letterpress images appearing on the cover and within the book are based on resin images generously produced for this project by Erica Van Horn in August, 2008 at Coracle Press, Tipperary, Ireland.

Genres: Poetry

letterpress

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspirational verse: "The curtain lifts and the dead enter | while the living exit. This is what the world is. | A hand held out amidst noise and dust | whose touch is a wide-eyed lifetime."

[Łukasz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pure beauty.

[Rach · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very pretty and heartbreaking

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Started out committed but soon lost focus and returned to library. 🙁