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Description
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a double accordian style book built into a clam shell box constructed with mahogany, black walnut, Japanese silk over boards with a bas relief copper sculpture forming the top cover of the box. The book unfolds from the center with six sheets moving to the left and seven sheets to the right and may be displayed closed, partially unfolded, or completely on a shelf or table.
The images are printed from relief plates based on drawings by Corinne Jones made with black chalk over full color renderings in direct response to each of the poems. This book was printed on Rives BFK cover weight paper using 16 and 24 pt Lutetia types by hand on a Vandercook Universal III press and bound at the LaNana Creek Press, Nacogdoches, Texas.
About the Author
Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879, and died at the age of seventy-six in Hartford, Connecticut on August 2, 1955. He attended Harvard as a special student from 1897 to 1900 but did not graduate; he graduated from New York law school in 1903 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1904.
Corinne Jones earned her Bachelor of Fine Art Degree, with an emphasis on painting from Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee; and a Master of Art Degree along with a Master of Fine Art Degree, both with an emphasis on painting, from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacagdoches, Texas. Her work has been exhibited all over the world, including France, Italy, and Russia. She lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.