Recognizing the angel : poems / by Mary Ann Coleman ; illustrations by Margaret Agner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, Mary Ann, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Agner, Dwight E., book designer, publisher.

Agner, Margaret, illustrator.

Press of the Nightowl, publisher.

Campbell-Logan Bindery, binder.

Georgia Southern Press (Firm), active 1991, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Mohawk Ticonderoga (Paper).

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Octavian.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Coleman, Mary Ann (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[10], 57, [3] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ga. : Press of the Nightowl, 1991.

Contents:

Motel pool

Fishing in sequins

Caught in the mystery cloaking the earth, she strains for vision

In a jewelry store

Celebration

A notification from Save-the-Children

Signs

Still life with rain and nectarines

Hauntings: Saint Simons Island, Georgia

Father and Rilke

Lakescape: after the funeral

Departures

Escaping the sea

Choices.

(Continued) On the beach

Crow

The burning

Intermission at a lake by moonlight

Photographs, lives

Fugue

Snow: Saint Francis bird feeder

On watching The Martian Chronicles

Bypass: the hospital

Mid-winter find

Hoof-falls: pasture scene

After services

Final move

Autumn camping

Ice

Ghosts

Vegetable market: trying to talk with a friend

Blood: Ocracoke Island

Lent.

(Continued) April: recognizing the angel

Leanings

What she's put away

Night watch: Lake Hartwell

From the rock house porch

Waking in Georgia

Driving to your house on a spring night in Indiana.

Notes:

"The edition consists of 480 copies printed by Georgia Southern Press on Mohawk Ticonderoa Text paper. Forty copies, case bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery ... are numbered and signed by the author. The remaining 440 were bound in paper covers"--Colophon.

Designed by Dwight Agner, and published by Nightowl. The text is set in Octavian.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has number 37. Signed by author. Hardback.

ISBN:

0912960191

9780912960197

0912960205

9780912960203

OCLC:

25583274