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05255aam a2200637 i 4500 001 E299D1281D7611EA83B92C1397128E48 003 SILO 005 20191213010258 008 170831s2017 caua 000 p eng c 035 $a (OCoLC)1002310582 040 $a WYU $b eng $e rda $c WYU $d IUP $d UPM $d OCLCA $d UUM $d CUY $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ca 050 4 $a N7433.4.T45 $b P58 2017 100 1 $a Thomas, Peter $q (Peter R.), $e publisher. $e papermaker, $e publisher. 245 10 $a Piute Creek / $c Gary Snyder. 264 1 $a Santa Cruz : $b Peter and Donna Thomas, $c 2017. 300 $a 1 volume (unpaged) : $b color illustrations ; $c 29 x 22 x 5 cm (cased) + $e 1 bag (30 x 35 cm) 520 $a "We had made a number of miniature scrolling books and wanted to create a large one. We chose Snyder's poem for the project both because the author's association with Japan - where the scroll is a common way to present literature (Snyder lived for a short time in Japan, and his early work was translating Zen poetry) -- and because his later work, as a poet writing about man's relation to the environment and nature, was influential on everyone in our generation who ever thought of moving back to the land or taking a backpack trip in the Sierra. The poem Piute Creek is generally considered Snyder's breakthrough poem, where he found his voice as poet for the environment and the American west. The poem guided our aesthetic decisions. The illustrations were made using sprayed pulp, the linoleum blocks printed with transparent ink, and the sections of the scroll sewed together creating wave like connections, all as references to the water of Piute Creek. The wood blocks that hold the scroll were milled from Ponderosa Pine, as it grows around Piute Creek. Early in his career Snyder had been a beat poet, and was featured in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums as Japhey Ryder who led the epic hike into Yosemite. Ryder's first words in Kerouac's novel were 'mud is better than words,' which are a Zen-like summary of the Piute Creek poem. We stamped those words, using transparent ink, into the back cover of our book, underneath the scroll. To make the printing visible we dusted the ink with finely sifted dirt we had collected near Piute Creek. When we first read Dharma Bums we were struck by the quaintness of Kerouac's constant reference to backpacks as 'little rucksacks.' This led us to house Piute Creek in an informal canvas bag rather than the more traditional clamshell box." -- $c From Peter and Donna Thomas' website $u http://www.baymoon.com/~peteranddonna/2-Piute.htm 500 $a Caption title. 500 $a Artists' book comprised of scroll (4 unnumbered leaves sewn together; approximately 186 x 16 cm unrolled) affixed to wooden frame (28 x 19 cm) mounted within casing (paper-covered boards, leather spine, printed and stitched paper label on cover). 500 $a Afterword by Tom Killion. 500 $a "This book was made by Peter and Donna Thomas. The text is copyright © 1965 by Gary Snyder ... Donna cut the illustrations. Antique wood type and Centaur were handset and letterpress printed on Peter's handmade paper. The paper was stenciled using sprayed pulp. The binding was made using ponderosa pine harvested from Whitlocks, in Mariposa, California, not too far from Piute Creek. Number [blank] of thirty copies."--Colophon. 500 $a Issued in strapless blue canvas satchel intended to resemble a backpack. 500 $a 30 numbered copies made. 500 $a Special Collections has copy number 4/30. $5 IaU 650 0 $a Artists' books $z Santa Cruz $z Santa Cruz $y 21st century $v Specimens. 650 0 $a Pulp painting $y 21st century $v Specimens. 650 0 $a Linoleum block-printing $y 21st century $v Specimens. 650 0 $a Paper, Handmade $z Santa Cruz $z Santa Cruz $y 21st century $v Specimens. 650 0 $a Letterpress printing $z Santa Cruz $z Santa Cruz $y 21st century $v Specimens. 650 0 $a Water in art. 650 0 $a Nature in literature. 650 0 $a Scrolls $y 21st century $v Specimens. 650 7 $a Artists' books. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00817660 650 7 $a Scrolls. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01109413 650 7 $a Paper, Handmade. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01052593 651 0 $a California $v Poetry. 655 7 $a Artists' books. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Nature poetry. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Linocuts. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Typefaces (Type evidence) $x Centaur. $2 rbtyp 655 7 $a Scrolls (Information artifacts) $2 aat 655 7 $a Ponderosa pine (Wood) $2 aat 655 7 $a Letterpress printing. $2 aat 655 7 $a Artists' books $z Santa Cruz $z Santa Cruz $y 21st century. $2 rbgenr 655 7 $a Wooden bindings (Binding) $z Santa Cruz $z Santa Cruz $y 21st century. $2 rbbin 710 2 $a Peter & Donna Thomas (Firm), $e issuing body. 700 12 $i Container of (work): $a Snyder, Gary, $d 1930- $t Piute Creek. 700 1 $a Thomas, Donna $q (Donna Sue), $e publisher. $e illustrator, $e publisher. 700 1 $a Killion, Tom, $e writer of afterword. 856 41 $z View images of the artists' book $u http://www.baymoon.com/~peteranddonna/2-Piute.htm 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240217010918.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E299D1281D7611EA83B92C1397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search