Lin He-Jing with Paul Hansen [trans.]

Lin He-Jing: Recluse-Poet of Orphan Mountain Selected and Translated by Paul Hansen [Signed Publisher's Presentation Copy]

Waldron Island, Washington: Brooding Heron Press, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Square 8vo. Pp. 35; [2]; ii-v. Title page printed in black and red; text letterpress printed in black with red rules in Mandarin and English. Two appendices present notes on the text. Bound in black cloth with printed labels on front cover and spine. Twenty-six lettered copies were hand bound in black cloth and signed by translator Hansen, printer Sally Green and binder Sam Green. This copy adheres to that limitation, but is designated in red calligraphy at the colophon: "This is a Publishers' Presentation Copy." In addition, the three-panel illustrated prospectus is laid in. Fine. Item #5121

Hansen's love letter to the Song Dynasty poet, fittingly presented here in a commensurately refined medium. Since 1984 Sam and Sally Green have operated Brooding Heron Press on Waldron Island, which might be the northernmost of the San Juan Islands archipelago in Washington State. Among the poets they've published are Donald Hall, Tim McNulty, Ted Kooser, Robert Sund, and Jane Hirshfield. In addition to operating the press, both Greens are poets; Sam Green served as Washington State's first Poet Laureate.

Price: $850.00