Caveworks Press BOOKS & Broadsides Crazy Eddy on the Judgment Day by Mary Swander. 2004, Edition of 125, $17.00, Sold Out Click cover for more images The Last Portrait by Julie Russell-Steuart 12 pages, edition of 250 (1995.) Price: 35.00 plus 2.00 shipping. Click cover for more images Artist's Book: An artist's obsession with a female muse exquisitely illustrated with linoleum cuts. The surprise ending reflects a genuine artistic dilemma. Letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine in black, Handsewn, handbound in a soft red cover. 12 pages, edition of 250 (1995.)       Price: 35.00 plus 2.00 shipping. Swander writes the roiling river; her language moves with elemental force, unstoppable. Upturned, near familiar phrases momentarily surface like a favorite article of clothing and are submerged again, often with comic results. Humorous stories within stories emerge, like "Samson of Wisconsin," dwarf Crazy Eddy's giant nemesis, and how he defeated him. Swander's rural midwest roots cling tight to her stories and capture their idiosyncratic characters with a close relative's unflinching eye.

Excerpt: "Why, onc't I even stood up to Whiskey Jack and his crew.
That's right.
     Big seven foot tall Jack
who floated down on a raft from up north.
Kraut with long flowing blood hair.
Samson of Wisconsin.
Well, Jack he thought he could outwit
Eddy, see, and one day he and his boys
Anchored in near the cafe'."

This monologue poem is part of Mary's forthcoming book (WordTech 2009) The Girls on the Roof, a tale in which a mother and daughter spend three days stranded on the roof of Crazy Eddy's former cafe' during the great flood of 93'.
 
Lino cut illustration from The Last Portrait Colophon: Hand set in Garamond and Engraver's Shaded type and printed on Mohawk Superfine. Bound in Fraser covers with Thai Mango endpapers. Binding assisted by Margaret Whiting and Julie McLaughlin. Printed in an edition of 125, and illustrated with linoleum cuts by Julie Russell-Steuart in one of the coldest summers on record. Colophon: Linoleum cuts printed on a Challenge proof press. Text printed on a Miehle Vertical. The text typeface is Helvetica Oblique. Handbound by the artist. Thanks to Timothy Fay of the Route 3 Press, Anamosa, Iowa for facility and technical support. Book List Reading Schedule NEW! Out of the Blue Order The Process Submissions Links Art: Other Home Contact Media News
 
Out of the Blue by Aaron James McNally 2007, 32 pages, Edition of 250, $20.00 + 2.00 shipping Aaron McNally’s poetry is driven by rhythm and sound, but guided by emotion. As readers, we are challenged to pinpoint the complexities of emotional expression each poem contains. Simultaneously, a strong cerebral bent works an angle on meaning that uses metaphor, imagery, juxtaposition, poetic form, and an inner narrative voice. Where we end up rests on our ability to take a journey, propelled along by rhythm, absorbing the emotional atmosphere, our destination up for grabs as McNally sets our heads spinning, then gently, with careful consciousness, sets us down. Colophon: "Illustration: Julie Russell-Steuart. Composition type set by the printer on an antique Intertype, thanks to Jim Daggs at Ackley Publishing. Typefaces: Palatino, Baskerville. Printed on the Vandercook UNI III at Caveworks Press in the year Cassandra was two. Paper: Mohawk, Neehah cover, and Thai endpapers. Hand-bound by the printer, poet, and Jim Russell. No. ___ of 250." Poetry Broadside “Human Acquisitions” by Julie Russell-Steuart 2010, Edition of 50 available (155 made for APA Poster bundle), $45.00 + 2.00 shipping Colophon: “Human Acquisitions” by Julie Russell-Steuart was first published in 2002 as the winner of the Roberta S. Tamares Sci-Fi Award in Inner Weather at the University of Northern Iowa. Here it is reprinted by Caveworks Press in an edition of 205, with 155 for the 2010 APA Poster bundle. Handset types in Garamond and Caslon, with linoleum cuts on Stonehenge paper. Mining real experiences of growing up with hearing loss, the poet creates a slightly fantastic and definitely science fiction scenario as the brother and sister struggle to cope as teenagers. Excerpt: The last summer they went to Ocean City. At night, brother and sister slipped onto the Boardwalk, into crowds Sluggish, muddled, wayward blobs of mere flesh: they cut through in syncopated cybernetic motion.