It's come to this

Hampl, Patricia

Published by Midnight Paper Sales, Saint Paul, Minnesota and Stockholm, Wisconsin, 2023

About this Item

Edition limited to 70 signed and numbered copies (with an additional 5 hors commerce), 4to (9" x 11"), pp. 36; the text was composition-cast in Monotype Menhart designed by Oldrich Menhart in Prague in 1933, and printed on vintage handmade paper at the Velké Losiny mill in the Czech Republic in the mid-20th century; bound by Matthew Zimmerman at Studio Alcyon. "In 1982, while wearing the hat of a "small press illustrator" I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to illustrate a long prose poem by Patricia Hampl, who had recently become famous with the publication of her memoir A Romantic Education (Houghton Mifflin, 1981). The resulting book, Resort (Bookslinger Editions, 1982) was pivotal for me, and I began angling for a manuscript from Patricia I might publish myself. It only took 40 years for one to materialize." It s Come to This . a bookend [of sorts] for Resort . contains drawings by Gaylord Schanilec of a wild rose and a stark sunrise over Lake Superior, [and] color wood engravings by him of a blooming Amaryllis and a panoramic sunset over the riverfront of Saint Paul, along with a cover lithograph drawn on and printed from the stone by Lila Shull. In the text Hampl contemplates her mortality as she walks her dog along the Saint Paul riverfront through that first dark year of the pandemic.

Seller Inventory # 65351

Bibliographic Details

• Title: It's come to this
• Publisher: Midnight Paper Sales, Saint Paul, Minnesota and Stockholm, Wisconsin
• Publication Date: 2023
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Literature
  • Modern Literature
  • Minnesota
  • Press Books