Conflu:x Press ~ California
(Tania Baban)

Elegia
By Beverly LaFontaine
2004. Edition of 25.

4.375 x 4.375" Digital printing on Arches paper / Japanese Watermark paper and black cover paper. In slip cover with open window, exposing book title. Font uses Gilgamesh. Illustration & book design by Tania Baban. Includes book mark with Eiffel Tower metal charm attached by black thread.

A lovely presentation of a poem written while LaFontaine was traveling in Paris.

Somewhere in this world
you have made your bed

without me, ...

As for me,
me moriré en Paris,
...

$50

Rx
By Jeanette Clough
2004. Edition of 50.

3.375 x 10.875" single sheet housed in a plastic blue pill bottle (4" tall, 7" round) with twist off top. Title label on bottle.Poem is printed on a scroll and lowered inside. Printed digitally on Japanese Kotoneiro paper backed with Thai Marble paper. Font is Cochin. Illustrated with capsules, tablets, and pills. Book design by Tania Baban.

Poem by Clough concerning coming to term with the intrusion of pharmaceuticals into one's life.

She sits at the formica counter
picking old sleeping pills
out of their foil safety
wrappers ...

$75

Stone
By Jeanette Clough
2003. Edition of 50.

4 x 2.5" accordion fold with hard covers. The stone decoration on the cover was collected by the book artist, Tania Baban, from Point Reyes seashore. Printed digitally on Mohawk paper. Cover title on canson. Cover and band use copper, metallic-krinkle, and leather-like paper. Fonts are Trebuchet and Tarzana Narrow.

Poem was inspired by Clough's visit to the coast of Ireland.

Because of its weight, stone spends most of its time on the ground as a thrush-landing, or worm roof...

$200