Late August Blues: The Daylily Poemsillustrated by Carolyn Whitesel

Monterey, Kentucky:: Larkspur Press,, 2012.. Special Edition of 45. 6.5 x 8.75"; 62 pages. Handset in Cloister Lightface type. Printed letterpress on a hand-fed C & P on Zerkal paper. Handbound by Carolyn Whitesel in her own decorated papers over board. Design, composition, printing, and binding by Leslie Shane, Carolyn Whitesel, and Gray Zeitz. Numbered. Signed by artist and poet. Late August Blues is Morehead's fifth collection of poetry, the third book with Larkspur Press. Erin Kean, News for Louisville www.wfpl.org : "Morehead's latest book is Late August Blues: The Daylily Poems, a gently melancholy collection of persona poems in the vein of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology. "The collection is illustrated by Carolyn Whitesel and published by Kentucky's Larkspur Press, which is owned and operated by celebrated letterpress publisher Gray Zeitz. Zeitz is the recipient of a 2012 Governor's Award in the Arts. "Morehead named the characters in her poems after different types of daylilies growing in her husband’s garden. Daylily varieties carry human names, like James Marsh and Mary Todd, and Morehead took the inspiration for her human characters from the flowers’ shapes and names." Larkspur Press: "Maureen Morehead is a teacher and poet who lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Her poems have been published in several magazines, including America, The American Poetry Review, California Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, The Iowa Review, and Poetry. She is on the faculty of Spalding University's low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing, and is Kentucky Poet Laureate for 2011-12. This is her third book for Larkspur Press. “Carolyn Whitesel works as a visual artist, writer, bookbinder, and gardening professional, doing business as Yellowbird Editions. Her artwork and artist's books have been widely exhibited. For more than three decades she has illustrated books and created special edition binding for Larkspur Press.