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A tremendously vital retelling of the closing books in The Odyssey, this should find wide readership among students, teachers, and general readers. The images are reproduced from the drawings Jim Dine made in 1987-88 from Greek and Roman statuary at the Glyptotek Museum in Munich. ""The pairing of image and word is amazingly close"" - Print Collector's Newsletter. ""Moves easily and quickly - racy and amusing"" - Orbis.
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Neil Curry was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1937 and now lives at Ulverston in the Lake District. After reading English at Bristol University, he taught at the University of Guelph in Canada and at secondary schools in England. His verse translations of Euripides, published by Methuen and Cambridge University Press, and in the USA by Doubleday, have been performed in may countries. Enitharmon has published his two earlier collections of poetry, Ships in Bottles (1988), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and Walking to Santiago (1992), a sequence inspired by the poet's 500-mile journey along the Pilgrim Road from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela.
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- PublisherEnitharmon Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1870612094
- ISBN 13 9781870612098
- BindingLeather Bound
- Number of pages63
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THE BENDING OF THE BOW - WITH ONE SIGNED ETCHING, A LITHOGRAPH AND FOUR PHOTOGRAVURES BY JIM DINE
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Enitharmon Editions Ltd., London, 1993
ISBN 10: 1870612094
ISBN 13: 9781870612098
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Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.
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Cloth in Slipcase. Condition: As New. First Edition 1/75 Deluxe. 64pp, with an individual signed lithograph, a lithographic frontispiece and four photogravures bound into the book. Beautifully illustrated by Jim Dine, this is the deluxe edition of author Neil Curry's colloquial version of the closing books of Homer's Odyssey in which he has "scrubbed the story free from all its side-tracks and digressions so as to leave clear one thread of Odysseus's final journey: from the shores of Ithaca to the marriage-bed where he is finally reunited with Penelope". It is hand-printed in 14 point Monotype Baskerville on Canaletto 160gsm (fine) and bound and slipcased by The Fine Bindery. Jim Dine's signed original 12 ½ x 9 ¾" etching of "The Head of Homer" (contained loose in a wallet in the slipcase) was printed on 300gsm Hahnemuhle at the Spring Street Workshop in New York. The lithographic frontispiece and four photogravures bound into the book all reproduce drawings made by the artist in 1987-8 from Greek and Roman statuary at the Glyptotek in Munich, and were printed in London by Pauper's Press and Hope Sufferance Press. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe edition limited to seventy-five copies SIGNED by the author, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Signed by the Author and the Artist. Illustrated Book. Seller Inventory # 013858
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