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Desert Songs
Poems by Virginia Mudd & Clifford Burke
Monoprints by Virginia Mudd
This work is dedicated to the Galisteo Basin of Northern New Mexico, where we lived for many years. It is a tribute, in image and word, to the endangered life treasures of silence, solitude and wilderness. This accordion fold book was handset in Bell types and printed by letterpress. The monoprint image of the Ortiz Mountains was printed from hand-inked blocks, requiring four passes through the press. Each one is different; most skies are shades of blue, like the banner at the top of this page. The binding is made up of boards covered with Mexican bark paper.
Eight pages, including covers, 4 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Price: $35.00
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If You Seek a Heavenly Light
Poem by Thomas Merton
Offset Lithographic Illustration by Virginia Mudd
Thomas Merton has guided, instructed and inspired my most significant life journey: the spiritual quest. The image of ancient Stonehenge accompanying the text (reproduced from an original watercolor) contains the same power and spirit of Silence that Merton speaks of.
The poem is hand set in the Goudy Thirty typeface and printed by letterpress. The binding is a decorated paper over boards. The paper came from Thailand, where Thomas Merton died in 1968.
Eight pages including covers, 4 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches
Price: $25.00
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Skull Drawings & Bone Songs
Drawings by Ruth Fine,
with poems in response by Clifford Burke
In 1990 Ruth Fine sent me a collection of drawings of animal skulls, and asked me to write poems to go with them. The book is printed by laser on tree-free paper made from Kenaf, an African plant being grown in the Southwest, and bound by hand in handprinted letterpress wrappers.
48 pages, 7 x 8 1/2 inches, handbound
Price: $15.00
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The Remarkable Admiral Byrd
Story and Photographs by Virginia Mudd
In the summer of 2003 we were graced by the lives of nesting and hatching phoebes on a log beam just outside our front door. The phoebe chicks were an ongoing delight to us as they grew up and ultimately graduated from Flight School. This is the story of one of those Phoebe Chicks, who showed us what true courage and determination to live is all about. He is truly one remarkable bird.
16 pages, including 4 pages of photographs printed with an indigo digital printer. The text is printed on an Epson 2200 inkjet printer, 5 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
Price: $12.00
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The Canticle of the Sun
This second edition of The Canticle is handset in American Uncial type, printed letterpress on Rives paper. It is bound in handmade paste paper over boards. The images are digital reproductions of original gouache paintings. The translation is by Stephen Mitchell. A favorite text praising our Earth.
Price: $75.00
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Desert Rose Press P.O. Box 50 San Jose, NM 87565 sales@desertrosepress.com
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