We are excited to announce our collaboration with Maintenance Ends Press to produce an artist’s book based on an excerpt from a novel coming out this fall. It’s an unusual partnership of a press and a book artist and its wholly due to publisher Todd Kimm’s vision and indirectly, Ice Cube Press, of which Maintenance Ends Press is an offshoot. To stay updated for a release date, a possible launch party and in process posts, please join our mailing list at the sidebar to the right. And for pre-orders, visit http://www.icecubepress.com.
From the press release:
This limited edition of 75, entitled 53 Lines, comes out in advance of the novel Voices after Evelyn by Rick Harsch (Fall 2018 Maintenance Ends Press) and excerpts a portion of the text from the first appearance in the novel of the Chorus voice. The novel seeks not so much to dig up a cold case–the 1953 disappearance of La Crosse, Wis, babysitter Evelyn Hartley–as re-open its heart. In 53 Lines, the viewer is invited to explore the mystery of Evelyn’s disappearance through the book’s unique structure, called a tetra tetra flexagon. As the viewer moves though the unfoldings, recombinations and separations of images occur.
Excerpt:
Evelyn, fingering her
Indian bead belt,
impotent talisman
against the pulmonic
dark moving
outside the windows
