Lettre Sauvage - Editions

Editions...

Riffs on a couplet. The happenstance of a brushstroke. This is the alchemy of words and images. A playground for experimentation with ideas and methods, chance and intention, literary and artistic traditions. Lettre Sauvage collaborates with artists and writers to create new, often surprising combinations which frequently arrive by accident, late in the evening.

Lettre Sauvage editions are currently part of the following collections: Getty Research Institute, UCLA Library Department of Special Collections, Electio Editions, The Library of Michigan, and the Mutanabbi Street Starts Here — Broadside Suite. The press also creates broadsides for visiting poets at the University of Southern California. The Annual Lettre Sauvage Poetry Contest (PDF) commences in 2008 with an edition of chapbooks for first place and broadsides for second.

Anne Carson “4th Choral Ode” from Euripides’ HIPPOLYTOS	Stephen Dunn “In the Open Field” broadside	Fiona Spring & Cameron Leggett WINE POETRY VIRTUE book	Ben Jackson COQUI, COQUI folio
Mark Irwin LONG PORTRAIT chapbook	Mark Irwin “When I Died” broadside		Genevieve Yue NEGATIVE SKY book

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	A limited edition broadside featuring the 4th Choral Ode from Euripides' Hippolytos (1268-1281), translated by Anne Carson. Hippolytos was published as a part of Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (NYRB Classics, 2006). It was also the inaugural play directed by Stephen Sachs at the reopened Getty Villa in September 2006. Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. She remarks in her preface to the book, “There is in Euripides some kind of learning that is always at the boiling point. It breaks experiences open and they waste themselves, run through your fingers. Phrases don't catch them, theories don't hold them, they have no use. It is a theater of sacrifice in the true sense. Violence occurs; through violence we are intimate with some characters on stage in an exorbitant way for a brief time; that's all it is.”
$35
Limited edition of 150. The dimensions are 7” x 10”. Using an antique letterpress, the broadsides were printed from copper plates on Twinrocker handmade papers in two colors, Cripple Creek and Sagebrush. They were then scorched with smoldering tea leaves and a butane torch.

	An original broadside by Stephen Dunn. Dunn won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for Different Hours, and is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey. “In The Open Field” was published in The Insistence of Beauty by Norton in 2004. On the collection, The Literary Review remarks, “Dunn's poems reveal a mind alive within its own inner-circlings, the transforming power of loss, the fictions that lead to the core of our truths, the possibility and reality of loving another again.”
$35
Limited edition of 176. The dimensions are 7" x 13". Using an antique letterpress, it was printed from copper dies and a linoleum block onto Ingres printmaking papers. Each broadside varies slightly. All broadsides were printed by Lettre Sauvage in March 2007. Each is signed and numbered by Dunn.

	Excerpts from “Get High” Edward K. Kaplan's translation of “Enivrez-Vous” by Charles Baudelaire. Hand-set type and stenciled lettering designed by Leggett. Sewn triptych structure slips into a black paper jacket.
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Printed in an edition of 50 on Rives heavyweight paper at UCSB print studio under the Lost Pollen imprint.

	A limited edition folio featuring the four-part poem, Coqui, Coqui, by Benjamin Jackson. Jackson received his M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College and has been published in the New England Review. The folio contains four individual sheets and a folded cover. Titles are: I. The Art of Loving II. Toco Polo III. Dreaming of Echo IV. Mimesis
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Limited edition of 50. The dimensions are 10" x 10". Using an antique letterpress, it was printed from magnesium plates on Stonehenge art papers. The cover was painted with watercolor. Each folio is signed and numbered by the poet. Printed by Lettre Sauvage in October 2005.