Breathtaken, 2011
Scope and Contents
This collection includes some of the broadsides and examples of fine press and letterpress printing collected by USC Libraries Special Collections for its American Literature Collection.
Dates
- Creation: 2011
Creator
- From the Collection: Abshear, Jeff (Person)
- From the Collection: Bieler Press (Organization)
- From the Collection: Black Mesa Press (Organization)
- From the Collection: Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) (Organization)
- From the Collection: Buckner Press (Organization)
- From the Collection: Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 (Person)
- From the Collection: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Person)
- From the Collection: Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 (Person)
- From the Collection: Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 (Person)
- From the Collection: D'Ambrosio (Person)
- From the Collection: Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993 (Person)
- From the Collection: Dine, Jim, 1935- (Person)
- From the Collection: Dobb, Edwin, 1950- (Person)
- From the Collection: Dorn, Edward (Person)
- From the Collection: Downing, Holly, 1948- (Person)
- From the Collection: Duensing, Paul Hayden, 1929- (Person)
- From the Collection: Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 (Person)
- From the Collection: Eshleman, Clayton (Person)
- From the Collection: Feldman, Walter, 1925- (Person)
- From the Collection: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Person)
- From the Collection: Forché, Carolyn (Person)
- From the Collection: Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951 (Person)
- From the Collection: Gilgun, John (Person)
- From the Collection: Gioia, Dana (Person)
- From the Collection: Hassler, Jon (Person)
- From the Collection: Hirshfield, Jane, 1953- (Person)
- From the Collection: Hermetic Press (Organization)
- From the Collection: Jacquet, Alain (Person)
- From the Collection: Keenan, Deborah (Person)
- From the Collection: Meltzer, David (Person)
- From the Collection: Menhart, Oldřich, 1897-1962 (Person)
- From the Collection: McCurdy, Michael (Person)
- From the Collection: Midnight Paper Sales Press (Organization)
- From the Collection: Muir, John (Person)
- From the Collection: Nawakum Press (Organization)
- From the Collection: Pomegranate Press (Organization)
- From the Collection: Sarton, May, 1912-1995 (Person)
- From the Collection: Snyder, Gary, 1930- (Person)
- From the Collection: Takis, 1925- (Person)
- From the Collection: Twombly, Cy, 1928-2011 (Person)
- From the Collection: Wagener, Richard (Person)
- From the Collection: Washburn College (Organization)
- From the Collection: Welch, Lew (Person)
- From the Collection: Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 (Person)
- From the Collection: Wilson, John (Person)
- From the Collection: Wright, C. D. (Carolyn Delores), 1949-2016 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Extent
From the Collection: 2.33 Linear Feet (2 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Description
[1] p. : ill. ; 56 x 28 cm.
General
Broadside prospectus for book of poetry, Breathtaken, by Carolyn D. Wright, illustrated with the linoleum relief cuts of Walter Feldman, published by the Brown Ziggurat Press, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Book designed by Walter Feldman and Elias Roustam.
Broadside contains text from Breathtaken printed in red and linoleum cut by Feldman printed in black.
Wright is the recipient of several awards, including a National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2004. "The poem addresses the corruption, lawlessness and unchecked violence of the post-Katrina New Orleans. When asked why she chose to write about New Orleans, Wright discussed her personal connection to photographer Deborah Luster. Wright collaborated with Luster, who lost her mother as a result of the violence, on the poem 'One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana.'"--From the Brown Daily Herald, March 21, 2012.
Feldman inaugurated the Ziggurat Press in 1985 with a book of poems by James Schevill.
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu