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"Burr and A Drama for Voices" defies classification. An American allegory like no other, history is retold in sparse and lyrical verse by the author Jeff Humphries. More of a poetic narrative than pure theater, the intense and meditative pace of the story is visually interpreted through crisp and starkly beautiful woodcuts by Minnesota print maker Betsy Bowen. Said Humphries, "The two hundredth anniversary of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr has passed. As this bicentennial approached, a number of historians revisited the event in works both popular and scholarly.This is not a work of history. It takes liberties with form and substance that are not permitted to the professional historian. What does it offer in return that they cannot? The story is reduced to an absolute minimum of circumstantial detail on the assumption that such pruning, severe and judicious, might cause an organic line to be revealed - this is a principle of Japanese art, and not the only one in play here. It will, of course, be for others to say if this historical minimalism has been successful, whether the essential, stark, brutal shape of the events has been revealed."
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Slim hardcover is unread; DJ shows a few tiny, faint pen markings near bottom of front cover. Autographed by illustrator Betsy Bowen on title page. A dramatic presentation of the events and characters leading up to the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, illustrated with woodcuts. A startlingly scarce book, seemingly the only one published by Philsgood Press. 104 pages. Signed by Illustrator(s). Seller Inventory # 5052