Logbook by Tom Raworth, Illustrations by Frances Butler
by Raworth,Tom ; Butler, Frances
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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CHESTER, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. first edition. Wrappers, 15 unnumbered leaves. Slight fading. Colophon: "One hundred coloured copies have been printed on the Poltroon Vandercook & five hundred copies offset at the West Coast Print Centre, Berkeley." This copy is the offset printing. Kit Robinson (in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 2 M-Z, Gale Research) describes the work:
The sea-voyage theme, as in the nineteenth-century adventure novels of Jules Verne or Robert Louis Stevenson, suggests its obverse, the cozy, bourgeois domesticity by which the individual is secured from imagination's perilous seas (a boat is a room), but the violent swiveling and physical rupture of Raworth's prose, with the explosion of the image bank depicted in Frances Butler's illustrations, signals the obsolescence of western cultural icons, a space where, by a kind of Doppler effect, objects only get further away, a world in which "all books are dead & we live where the edges overlap.".
The sea-voyage theme, as in the nineteenth-century adventure novels of Jules Verne or Robert Louis Stevenson, suggests its obverse, the cozy, bourgeois domesticity by which the individual is secured from imagination's perilous seas (a boat is a room), but the violent swiveling and physical rupture of Raworth's prose, with the explosion of the image bank depicted in Frances Butler's illustrations, signals the obsolescence of western cultural icons, a space where, by a kind of Doppler effect, objects only get further away, a world in which "all books are dead & we live where the edges overlap.".
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- Bookseller
- Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29578
- Title
- Logbook by Tom Raworth, Illustrations by Frances Butler
- Author
- Raworth,Tom ; Butler, Frances
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Poltroon Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1976
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- Bookseller catalogs
- PRESS BOOKS, FINE AND PRIVATE;
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
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CHESTER, Connecticut
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