The arts of fire
Woodside Ca: The Heyeck Press, 1982. Hardcover. 49p., letterpress on mouldmade paper with a fine deckle; red and yellow double-spread marbled titlepage, design, presswork and marbling all done by Robin Heyeck. Hardbound, no.88 of 100 in 11.5x8 inch quarter red morocco over marbled red boards ruled gilt front and back with spine-titling gilt. Signed by Mayes at the colophon. Entirely sound, clean, and free of any ownership or other marks: a fine copy of a splendid production by a letterpress.maestro (the marbling is pretty good too).
San Francisco-based poet and travel writer's ("Under the Tuscan Sun") fourth book. Some of the poetry draws on the poet's childhood in Georgia (p.21ff); also, Ars Poetica, slicing tip of her finger off (and serving it, the little pink dome, in the salad; greenhorn in Tucson Az; a volcano in spate; Abattoir, watching a live pig butchered.
Cat.No: 210354
ISBN: 0940592118
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