XXIV Short Love Poems

[Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 2002] One of 135 copies signed by both Campbell and Bruce Whiteman. XXIV Short Love Poems commemorates the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Bruce and Deborah Whiteman. . Accordion binding. Blue-and-gold pastepaper (by Claire Maziarczyk) over boards. Japanese raw silk spine.Bound by Campbell with assistance of Karen Skove Chu. . 5 in. x 5 in. . With three small cyanotype prints (photographed by Carolee Campbell), bordered in navy, and mounted on printed gold rectangles. The prints were sensitized by hand and printed on Velke Losiny paper by Campbell. Type is Eve and Paramount handset and letterpress printed by (truncated) Campbell in black, gold, gray, and blue on Japanese hangashi paper. A fine copy Bruce Whiteman (b. 1952) is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator who worked as the director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library between 1996 and 2010. He has written several descriptive and annotated bibliographies, including one of Leonard Cohen, and translated poetry and essays from French and Latin. He writes primarily prose poetry; his most widely known poetic work is the ongoing epic prose poem that he began publishing in 1984. The first six books of the poem were published in 2006 as a collection titled The Invisible World is in Decline by ECW Press in Toronto. Book VII of the epic, Intimate Letters, was published by ECW in 2014. (Inventory #: 17839)