Mortho Terrestre, from Sara Langworthy and Poet Emily Wilson
(Sara Langworthy) Mortho Terrestre. Poems [by] Emily Wilson. Prints [by] Sara Langworthy. 2006. 11.25” x 5”. Four 4 page fold-out color images created on and off the press by Langworthy, who also designed and printed the book. Text in Janson printed on Sakamoto paper from photopolymer plates. Pages are sewn with silk in a Japanese multisection binding. Laid in a recess in a brown silk dropback box with cream paper title on the spine and paper color illustration on the top of the box. One in an edition of 50 copies, signed by Wilson and Langworthy. Fine.
Emily Wilson lives in Portland, Maine, where she is the proprietor of the Spurwink Press, which publishes letterpress editions of poetry books. She graduated from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1999. Six of the poems in this book have previously appeared in various publications.
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