Original Wraps
2010 · [San Francisco, CA]
by Ingmire, Thomas
[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 (truncated)