Legacy of beginning : poems in Bhutan / by Kim Stafford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stafford, Kim Robert, author.

Contributor:

Bates, Wesley W., wood engraver.

Shane, Leslie, printer, binder.

Whitesel, Carolyn, printer, binder.

Zeitz, Gray, printer, binder.

Wieck, Roger S., associated name, former owner.

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- associated name, former owner.

Larkspur Press, printer.

Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc., papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bhutan--Poetry.

Bhutan.

Genre:

American poetry -- 21st century.

fine press books.

letterpress printing.

wood engravings (prints)

poetry.

Wood engravings

Poetry

Poetry.

Wood engravings.

Artists' books -- 2013.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Cloister Lightface.

Physical Description:

46 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Monterey, Kentucky : Larkspur Press, [2013]

Contents:

Legacy of beginning

Reclining Buddha of Bhutan

A pine tree at Punakha

Beside the bukhari at Pobjikha

Thrung thrung karmo

Dakini with flute at Ugyen Choling

Two Dzongkha words

Butter lamp at Taktsang

Buddha's earth-witness gesture

Hesitant step

Nado : the good guardian at Ugyen Choling

Old trees at Duchola

Glimpses in the village

Trust walk

The arrow

Thinking of you at Punakha

Three dreamed words in Bumthang

There is nothing you cannot ask of me

Those who were lost

Waking in Bumthang

Wind unravels a prayer flag at Hong Tscho.

Notes:

"This book was handset in Cloister Lightface type, printed on a hand-fed C & P, then handbound. 500 copies were printed on Mohawk Superfine paper and a special edition of 50 copies was printed on Biblio paper. The wood engravings are by Wesley Bates. Design, composition, printing and binding by Leslie Shane, Carolyn Whitesel and Gray Zeitz at Larkspur Press."--Colophon.

Author's statement: "In the winter of 2011 ... I gathered a band of ten writers from America and one from Poland for a creative pilgrimage to the kingdom of Bhutan. These poems were written as we sat together around the bukhari, the iron stove where pine crackled and winter kept us close. The poems are informed by the Buddhist notion of four dimensions for each encounter, from the visible to the increasingly mysterious and important"--Page ix.

Includes glossary.

Local Notes:

Larkspur Press 51: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck in 2018. With dust jacket.

Cited in:

Fox, G. Larkspur Press, p. 269

OCLC:

890314152