(Joan Iversen Goswell) Goldwing Moth. Artist’s book by Joan Iversen Goswell. Poem by e.e. cummings. n.d. 8” x 40” open. Irregularly shaped accordion book. Hand lettering on Rives BFK. The illustrations are open bite etchings printed by the artist and decorated with hot colored foil tooling. Each etching in each book was hand pulled by the artist.The lettering in each book was hand lettered. In a purple paper wrapper onto which another etching has been pasted.No. 4 in an edition of 7 copies, signed in pencil by the artist and with her stamp. Fine.

TEXT:
the sky a silver dissonance
by correct fingers of april resolved
into a clutter of trite jewels

now like a moth with stumbling
wings flutters and flops along the
grass collides with trees and houses and finally
butts into the river

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