"The types & the papers ... Sappho: Van Dijck italic with Optima on Saint-Armand Blue Ungava HM; Pindar: Van Dijck with Open Kapitalen on Barcham Green Chilham HM; Ronsard: Cancelleresca Bastarda with Van Dijck and Dutch Initial on BG Hayle HM; Peter Lazarov's wood engraving with Cancelleresca Bastarda on Zerkall Book Soft White MM; Mallarmé: Goudy Catalogue with Trump Medieval & unidentified wood type on St-A Canal Peat Moss MM; Trakl/Rilke: Poliphilus & Blado on BG Camber Sand HM; Jouve: Optima with Gill Shadow on BG Tovil HM; Montale: Lutetia with Chisel on St-A Georgian Bay HM; Jaccottet: Garamont with Augustea on BG Irish Lender HM; Stanescu: Van Dijck with Huxley Vertical on Hahnemuehle Heine MM; Van Toorn: Bembo with Ratdolt Titling on Turkey Mill MM; Faryad: Gill Sans on BG Charter Oak HM; Kareva: Bell with Rivoli and Locarno italic on St-A Grey Cotton MM. The title sheet, biographical notes, & this colophon sheet are printed in Bembo with Festival Titling on St-A Jute Cotton MM. Under strange sail was designed and printed by Crispin and Jan Elsted at Barbarian Press from November to January 2006-7. There are 100 sets for sale, with 15 sets for contributors hors commerce"--Colophon. Suite of a dozen separately designed broadsheets; housed in a folded and printed portfolio of heavy waterleaf paper; includes title sheet, colophon, and notes on poets and translators.
Contents:
For the sprinter Asopikhos & for others: a version of Pindar's Olympian 14 / trans. Robert Bringhurst. Apparition / Stéphane Mallarmé; trans. Albert Moritz -- Three poems / Doris Kareva; trans. from the Estonian by Toomas Hendrik Ilves -- The lightning & the chill / Nichita Stanescu; trans. Oana Avasilichioaei -- From the Amours of Pierre de Ronsard / Englished by John Pass -- A dream of Ronsard / wood engraving by Peter Lazarov -- The sadness of a lovely day / Pierre-Jean Jouve; trans. Albert Moritz -- Herbsttag / Rainer Maria Rilke; trans. Crispin Elsted -- Verfall / Georg Trakl; trans. Manfred Meurer -- In zijn hoofd = In his head / Willem van Toorn; trans. from the Dutch by Francis Jones -- Tessellations, from fragments / after Sappho of Mytilene; [trans. Crispin Elsted] -- The house of Olgiate / Eugenio Montale; trans. John Francis Phillimore -- Reverse: a version, or inversion, of Jaccottet's 'La nuit est une grande cité endormie' / Philippe Jaccottet; trans. John Francis Phillimore -- For the sprinter Asopikhos & for others: a version of Pindar's Olympian 14 / trans. Robert Bringhurst.
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