CAINE, Michael. PETROPOLIS PRESS. STEVENS, Wallace & NERUDA, Pablo. ~ Two Poems for Anna Sherington. In the Carolinas by Wallace Stevens & No Hay Olvido by Pablo Neruda
This copy is from sheets from the Edition de Tete of around 20 on Barnham Green paper which were printed in 1985 in London. Caine, has gathered these sheets and bound them in 1921. In pencil he has numbered this 48/65 and signed and dated it Paris, 2021. Hand-coloured illustrations. 14.4 x 12.8 cms, hand bound by Caine in stiff marbled paper wrappers and with a printed paper label on upper cover printed in Paris at Caine’s Petropolis Press in 2021.
The book takes the form of two poems printed to celebrate the fleeting life of the baby Anna Sherington in 1984, In the Carolinas by Wallace Stevens and Pablo Neruda’s No Hay Olvido: Sonata in Spanish with an additional English translation by Ben Belitt ‘There’s No Forgetting’.
A beautiful and heartfelt printing by the master of the Press, Caine.