Sunblind Highway; | selected poems 2009-2016
[Vancouver]: Heavenly Monkey, 2016. Octavo, 26 x 17.1 cm. Sewn with orange thread into olive paper wraps. The title and Budd’s name are printed in gilt to the upper cover and ‘HM’ is printed in gilt to the lower cover. Unpaginated [pp. 16, plus ll. 2: self-ends]. A fine copy. The text was set in Bodoni, with larger Bodoni printed in pale bronze for display; printed on Somerset Book paper. An arabesque drawing by Harold Budd was used for the frontispiece. The drawing was reproduced from a polymer plate. From an edition of 100 copies. This copy is number 32 of 80 copies comprising the second (or regular) state, which was produced for the author to distribute. Item #383
"A collection of eight poems selected from Harold’s books Colorful Fortune, Angel, 4 and Aurora Teardrops, plus two published here for the first time. A modest single-signature publication for distribution at Harold’s concert performances of the Aurora Teardrops poems, starting with his Vancouver debut (January 2016). He signed the special copies, and all of the colophons for the not-yet-printed Aurora Teardrops, at the venue after the sound check.” — Rollin Milroy (This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven, 1.34).
Price: $75.00