Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Betray the Invisible

Betray the Invisible
(Ragland, Alabama: OEOCO Press, 2010) Edition of 40.


By Jeff Weddle




6.25 x 8.25"; 42 pages. Text handset in Cochin and Bembo metal type. Printed on a Vandercook SP 20 press. Text paper: 30 copies printed on Somerset Book Paper; 10 copies on Mohawk Superfine. Artwork handcolored using Prisma pencils. Exposed Japanese stab binding. Bound in paper over boards and black cloth. Signed by the poet.

Poetry by Jeff Weddle is accompanied by drawings of artist and printer Mary Ann Sampson. The design, artwork, bindings, and printing were done by Sampson.

About the Author: "Jeff Weddle writes short stories, scholarly works, and poetry. His book, Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Lou jon Press won the Eudora Welty Prize for interpretive scholarship in the humanities.

"His creative writings have seen publication in anthologies, chapbooks, and journals. "Freud Visits the Tropics" and "It Will Be Later Still" first appeared in the Chiron Review. "In Faulkner's Woods" and "That First Affair" debuted in The Journal of Kentucky Studies.

I want poems hard as coal not diamond hard but coal hard ... [from "explication"] $275

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