House of Rivers, House of Clay
By Judy Anderson & Ginny Hoyle
Denver, Colorado: Judy Anderson, 2007. Edition of 6.

9.75 X 12.75 x 1"; 178 pages. Images were printed by a high resolution archival digital press on Kozo-Shi paper by Infinite Editions. Text printed on a digital Epson Photo 2000. Domtar Solutions text sheets, Canson Mi-Teintes endsheets. Casebound, cloth with foil-stamp titles, handsewn onto tapes.

This fine press edition of 37 poems was part of an installation by artist Judy Anderson and poet Ginny Hoyle at the Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, Colorado. Each poem is allowed its own quiet space. The four sections (roughly thematic groups: earth, air, fire, water) are separated by a page of images from the installation.

Judy Anderson: "This is the only full publication of all the poems that comprised the installation House of Rivers, House of Clay (Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, Colorado ). Individual poems have been published in other poetry journals....The installation takes liberties with each poem where the form of the word, the material, shape, sequence express the content in a very subjective way. Since the poems in the exhibition were not readable in a linear format, we decided to create a quiet typographic book where the form of each poem was neutral, allowing the reader to visualize the ideas each represents. The installation was pushing the idea of book; the manuscript celebrates the traditional book form."

Anderson and Hoyle have collaborated for over 20 years.

Ginny Hoyle, member of Denver's Lighthouse Writers Workshop, is an award-winning writer/poet with roots in journalism and copywriting. Two poems in this collection, "House of Clay" and "I Was Sixteen," have been selected for publication in the 2007 edition of MARGIE, a national poetry journal and past winner of the Book Critics Circle Award in March.

Judy Anderson, artist and teacher, has taught at universities in Washington, Colorado and California. She is the director of PlatteForum, an artist residency program and innovative art education facility in Denver that connects working artists with underserved youth. Her artist books are exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Europe and the former Soviet Union, and are part of major national collections in the United States and Germany.
$950 (Last copy)