A Butterfly Careless

A Butterfly Careless was a collaboration with the poet and playwright Andrew Gay. Andy’s western-style haiku and my monotype collages call to mind events and images from the natural world, and are arranged in a sequence that follows the seasons and times of day.

on a shadowed hill

a small hackmatack

performs its own sunrise

Each copy of the book is enclosed in a slipcase covered in Arrestox cloth and stamped in foil with an original monotype laid into a debossed panel. Within the book, the poems are typeset in Dante and printed letterpress on Mohawk Ultrafelt Text. Images from the original monotypes are printed as offset duotones on Mohawk Superfine Text. Design and typography are by Paul Hoffman. A Butterfly Careless was printed letterpress at Stinehour Press (Lunenburg, Vermont, 2001). A limited number of copies remains available.

A Butterfly Careless is held in Special Collections and Archives at Bowdoin College and at the University of Kentucky’s Margaret I. King Library.