Infirm
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Woodcuts by Toby Gordon and Terry Schupbach-Gordon
Description
Infirm is part of a larger series of prints and books called "Claiming Grace" which address issues of disability, identity, and beauty.
"The poem is a delight and as I quoted in the colophon ... it was printed 'with my own legs a-wobble. ...' Actually, that is a stretch, since I as a wheelchair user while printing on the Vandercook, it is my wheels that are a bit a-wobble reaching to insert the paper, but it made me smile, thinking both of my wobble, and as Gwendolyn says so beautifully, that we are all enough to be beautiful." — Terry Schupbach-Gordon
"Somebody wrote to the library and asked that I find books with poems featuring handicapped people for a conference that was going to feature handicapped people. So, I decided I was going to try to write such a poem myself. I have a certain way of feeling about handicapped people. I feel that we're all handicapped to some degree in some dimension, so under the title I wrote 'For handicapped all.'" — Gwendolyn Brooks, Dickinson Electronic Archives
"Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most highly regarded, influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry. She was a much-honored poet, even in her lifetime, with the distinction of being the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress — the first Black woman to hold that position — and poet laureate of the State of Illinois." — www.poetry.foundation
Publisher
Catbird (on-the-Yadkin) Press
Subject
Poetry, disability, body, identity
Extent
5.25 x 10". 14 pages.
Style
Woodcut
Material
Bound in St. Armand papers with Lakota end sheets.
Technique
Typeset in Centaur and Bembo. Letterpress printed. Pamphlet binding.
Date
2019
Recommended Citation
Brooks, Gwendolyn, "Infirm" (2019). Rollins College Book Arts Collection. 79.
https://scholarship.rollins.edu/book_arts/79
Other Information
Edition 4 of 35. Signed by the artists. For more information, visit http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/c/catbird-press or https://www.terryschupbachgordon.com/books.