The Room
The Room is a boxed suite of twelve woodcuts with chine collé. Each image pairs with a line from Mark Strand's poem, The Room. This collaboration between myself and U.S. Poet Laureate Strand was co-published by Flatbed Press, Austin and printed there by Tracy Mayrello with the assistance of Cordelia Blanchard.
The Room
It is an old story, the way it happens
sometimes in winter, sometimes not.
The listener falls to sleep,
the doors to the closets of his unhappiness open
and into his room the misfortunes come --
death by daybreak, death by nightfall,
their wooden wings bruising the air,
their shadows the spilled milk the world cries over.
There is a need for surprise endings;
the green field where cows burn like newsprint,
where the farmer sits and stares,
where nothing, when it happens, is never terrible enough.
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