Colorful Fortune; | Poems & Drawings by | Harold Budd
[Vancouver]: Heavenly Monkey Editions | MoonLiner Books, 2009. Octavo, 23.2 x 14.2 cm. Cased in limp covers by Keith Lowe at MoonLiner Books. The title is printed, with calligraphic Zapfino flourishes, to the upper cover. Printed lettering to the spine. An arabesque drawing by Harold Budd spans the spine and both covers. The covers are themselves covered in a diaphanous ‘paper vellum’, through which the lettering and drawing are visible. Housed in a later (colorful) marbled paper covered slipcase; the slipcase was made at HM. pp. [10, including self-ends], 1-33, [5, including self-ends]. A fine copy. The text was set by Rollin Milroy at HM in Perpetua with occasional Zapfino accents. It was printed on Rives paper by David Clifford at Black Stone Press. Arabesque drawings by Harold Budd accompany his poems: “the pencil drawings reproduced here were created by the author specifically for this book, at the end of 2008. They consist of two series of seven drawings each, (Claudio) Monteverdi I-VII and (Lennie) Tristano I-VII, each based on music Harold was listening to at the time. They are reproduced at full size, and for the most part follow where and how they were placed on the page in the originals.” The drawings were reproduced with polymer plates; 6 are full-page and 8 are vignettes. From an edition 50 copies in two states. The first ten copies comprise the Deluxe Issue. This copy belongs to the balance comprising the (regular) Press Issue. It is number 36. Signed in ink by Harold Budd on the colophon page. (This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven, 2.8). Item #379
“I grab these; I grab them before they disappear; and I grab them in bundles— they don’t occur in a steady lineage, developed over time: they’re here for awhile, then they’re not here forever. I keep them as they happen in a single notebook: a Chinese blank-page journal at the moment, but I still misplace or lose some… ” — Harold Budd.
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