[ Archetype Press.] Ronk, Martha.

Chapbook. [“The Blackbird Whistling (Or Just After).”]

[ Pasadena:]: Archetype Press, [ArtCenter College of Design,], 2017. One of fifty copies. Designed printed and bound by the students in the “Text, Image, and the Written Word” course at the ArtCenter College of Design in Fall 2017: Devin Lee, Juan Pesquera, Hyek Im, Melanie Yu, Hera Cho, Lars Gresslien Fiva, Matthew Goldstein, Rebecca Kim, Hilda Rios, Simon Baek, and Lovisa Boucher. The class was taught by Gloria Kondrup, Dennis Phillips, and Steve Turk. Printed in black and color with various image making techniques including linocut, creative typography, pressure prints, and pop-up leaves. Letterpress printed with handset type. A fine copy. Black, white, and gray paper wrappers sewn at spine. 7 booklets (4 x 7 ”) and title sheet (4 x 7 ”). Unpaginated, each 4-8 pp. Item #17756

In this creative chapbook, the poem “The Blackbird Whistling (Or Just After)” by Martha Ronk (inspired by “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens) was broken up into its six stanzas. Pairs of ArtCenter students were tasked with designing, printing, and binding each stanza in its own booklet.

Price: $150.00