The Harmonic Flight of Madness / A Visual/Verbal Book [Artist Book]

[San Francisco, CA], 2010. Unique. Original Wraps. Fine in Fine Plexiglass Box. Unique. Original Wraps. A unique lettered and painted manuscript heightened with gold. There are 9 double spreads and a colophon. “The text is a reassembled collection of words and phrases taken from Georg Trakl’s col- lection of poetry titled Song of the West (translated by Robert Firmage).” This is not a Trakl poem, but rather Thomas Ing-mire’s visual interpretation of Georg Trakl’s verbal poems. It is Calligraphy and Poetry in collaboration. The blacks, greys, and deep blues explode at the end in a splendor of yellow and orange. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Covers are lettered and painted, ink and watercolor decorated inblacks and blues for the upper cover, reds and yellows for lower, textblock mss, watercolor, and gilt; housed in a black plexiglass case with a clear lid. np. [eleven leaves]. Hand lettered and colored. Signed by the calligrapher/artist. (Inventory #: 12335)