Night Piece ~ by Carol Moldaw
Night Piece ~ by Carol Moldaw
In celebration of American poet Carol Moldaw’s newest poetry collection, Go Figure (published by Four Way Books, September 2024), St Brigid Press has created a letterpress printed mini-booklet of one of my favorite poems from the collection ~ “Night Piece.” As the sleepless poet wanders through the rooms of her new home, glimpsing the moon “from window to window,” we journey with her page-by-page and couplet-by-brilliant-couplet, until everything — the moon, the poet, and the reader — vanishes in the sparkling silence of deep night.
My printmaking friend and frequent collaborator Lana Lambert hand-carved a tiny super moon especially for this project, and I letterpress printed it in rich silver Hanco ink. The text was hand-set in Goudy Old Style metal types, and letterpressed in black ink on sustainably made, parchment-like French Paper Company stock. All was sewn by my hand in a Japanese side-bound style, with magnificent hand-marbled Indian covers that swirl with gold and silver in a field of black — the cosmos in shimmering motion.
The booklet is 2-inches by 4-inches, in a numbered edition of 110. Because of the hand-marbled covers, each booklet is entirely unique!
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St Brigid Press is also hosting the sales of Carol Moldaw’s broadsides, created by printers in New Mexico and California — explore them HERE.
Carol Moldaw is the author of six previous books of poetry: Beauty Refracted (Four Way Books, 2018); So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems (Etruscan Press, 2010); The Lightning Field, 2002 winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize (Oberlin College Press, 2003); Through the Window (La Alameda Press, 2001), also translated into Turkish and published in a bilingual edition in Istanbul (Iyi Seyler, 1998); Chalkmarks on Stone (La Alameda Press, 1998); and Taken from the River (Alef Books, 1993). She is also the author of a novella, The Widening (Etruscan Press, 2008). She has received a Merwin Conservancy Artist Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in such journals as The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review, as well as many anthologies, including Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Along with Turkish, her poems have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. A volume of her selected poems, translated into Chinese, is forthcoming from Guangxi Normal University Press in Beijing in 2025. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Bio from Four Way Books.)