In Soundings, Emily Hancock has created an elegant, lovingly-made work of art. Emily crafted the poems, carved linoleum prints, set the letterpress, and hand-bound the book. Thank you to Emily for allowing me to share these poems and thank you to my daughters for taking these photos!
and from each eave
the steady
heartbeat of ice
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on and on it burns
an ember in a grate
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comes in,
no argument
is strong enough
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turn to dust
against stone ~
fire's brief flowers
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You can read more about Soundings at St Brigid Press.
The Poetry Friday round-up is at BookTalking.
Gorgeous! I love the sparing use of words and all the space to give our thoughts room to breathe.
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely! And what a impressive total package. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Tabatha. She must be very pleased with this lovely book. I love that 'steady heartbeat of ice'. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteWhat a very special treasure! She did a beautiful job of presenting her luminous words with her art. Especially love "fire's brief flowers." :)
ReplyDeleteThe steady heartbeat of ice. BEAUTIFUL. thanks for sharing, and happy Poetry Friday, my friend.xo
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous book! Thanks for sharing it!
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful volume of beautiful poetry, Tabatha - a real treasure.
ReplyDeleteWow. My fingers are just itching to hold that book and feel the texture of the pages. -- it seems like the feel would be as evocative as the words. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteThis is just amazing..the spare lines, the handmade papers.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing this lovely work.
Oh, I wish that Waynesboro was just a little closer...and now I want to make a book with my own hands too. Hmm. Maybe I will...I was noodling a calligraphy poem just this week...
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tabatha--how did you come to find this book?
Reading these poems makes me want to create a book like this- so very beautiful!
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