Legacy of Beginning / Poems in Bhutan: wood engravings by Wesley Bates

Monterey, Kentucky:: Larkspur Press,, 2013.. Special edition of 50. 6 x 8.75"; 62 pages. Printed on Biblio paper. Handset in Cloister Lightface type. Printed on a hand-fed C&P. Wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Handbound with paste paper over boards and cloth spine. Design, composition, printing, and binding by Leslie Shane, Carolyn Whitesel, and Gray Zeitz. Numbered. Signed by the poet and artist. Kim Stafford, preface: "In the winter of 2011, with the help of Tshetem Norbu and Wendy Erd of Sacred Himalayan Travel, I gathered a band of ten writers from America and one from Poland for a creative pilgrimage to the kingdom of Bhutan. "These poems were written as we sat together around the bukhari, the iron stove where pine crackled and winter kept us close. The poems are informed by the Buddhist notion of four dimensions for each encounter, from the visible to the increasingly mysterious and important." Larkspur Press: "Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute in Oregon, and author of a dozen books of poetry and prose." Wesley Bates has been a wood engraver since 1980. He frequently collaborates with poets and authors for Larkspur Press.