Melia Press – Crown of Chaos. A Broadside Suite.
(Melia Press) Crown of Chaos. A Broadside Suite. [Compiled and illustrated by] Robert Johnson. Poems by John Wills, William Stafford, John Dimoff, David Ignatow, Walt Whitman, James Wright & Michael Kincaid. Black and white woodcuts by Robert Johnson. Minneapolis. 1990. 13″ x 9.5″. Printed by hand from handset Van Diuck and Packard types on Rives Heavyweight paper at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Gunmetal textured boards with open gray spine sewn with white cord. Paper title labels inset on front board. Dropback box of the same material; black leather spine with recessed paper title label. Interior of box lined with gray and white patterned paper. Jill Jevne specially bound this boxed edition of 9 copies. No. 26 in an edition of 80 copies. Now signed as No. 2 of 9 specially bound sets signed by Johnson. Signed on the individual sheets by five of the poets and Robert Johnson. Fine.
A handsome book.
Related items: Catalogue 37 - Summer 2009, Poetry, Melia Press