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Comprised of six 22x14¾" printed broadside poems, each with an illustration, mostly by colored woodcut. Together, housed in the publisher’s maroon cloth folding box with gilt-lettered cover and internal marbled paper, made by Hans Schuberth, according to the printer’s design, as a prototype for the project. Each No. 73 of 150 hand-numbered copies designed and printed by Carol Denison and David Pascoe, and each signed by the author and artist.

Series I of a projected series of two that were to collect all 12 broadsides produced by the Calliopea Press, issued during the mid-1980’s. The second series was never completed. Housed in a folding box of maroon cloth, internally lined with red marbled papers. Box produced by San Francisco binder Hans Schuberth. There were at most only two such boxes made. These were samples and, since the project was never completed beyond the first six poets, further boxes were never fashioned. Thus for the collector of Bly, Levertov, Berry or any of these authors this set in the publisher’s box is very likely a unicum. There will be only one, or at most two, such items ever seen. Broadside poems include: The Good Silence by Robert Bly, art by Micah Schwaberow; Blue Africa by Denise Levertov, art by Maurice Lapp; Ice Fishing by Siv Cedering, art by Carol Denison; Vulture Weather by Diane Wakoski, art by Elizabeth Quandt; Bristlecone by William Stafford, art by Patricia Waters; and A Place Unmade from Sabbaths by Wendell Berry, art by Max Hein.