Green Chair Press ~ California
(Susan Angebranndt)

"3" Poems
By Wislawa Szymborska
San Mateo, California: Green Chair Press, 2003. Edition of 100.

5.5 x 3.5 x 1" with three pamphlets. Each poem/book is identical in size but bound in a different style then boxed together. The paper in each volume is Somerset Each is printed letterpress on a hand-fed press. The dots in A Word on Statistics are printed using offset lithography. Designed, printed and bound by Susan Angebranndt.

Three poems, by Nobel laureate Szymborska, pay homage to mathematics & life.

Susan Angebranndt: "The Nobel-prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska often uses numeric or mathematical images in her work. Through these poems, she speaks to the vastness, the abstractness, the unknowns of the world, but with a wry, humorous touch. These volumes offer a visual interpretation of three mathematically inspired poems, seeking to enhance the poetic imagery with inventive typography and original illustrations."

"The whimsical poem Pi juxtaposes the finite, impermanent world with the familiar never-ending numerical sequence 3.1415... The book's structure and typography echo the poem, juxtaposing the discrete stanzas with the numerical sequence, which starts on the cover and dances across the pages, oblivious to the words, continuing on the back cover, and finally slipping off the edge."

"A Word on Statistics takes a playful look at numbers and human nature. Funny how we think we're so different, yet we're really all too similar. I've used 10x10 grids of dots to illustrate the poem, accenting the accumulation of various foibles that make us human."

"(A Large Number) Despite a world populated by so many other people, we seldom see beyond our own small circumstances. Using typography, I reinforce the poem's message of alone-ness, as the poem asks the reader why the world seems so small."
$200

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