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

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.

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