La Revista del Vigía. Ano 5, no. 2, 1994
Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía
One of 200 copies.
1668
Quarto. 137pp. Thematically and artistically organized around hands, here as an apt metaphor to accompany the homage paid by contributors to their poet forbears. With additional pergamino (folded broadside) pocketed...
Quarto. 137pp. Thematically and artistically organized around hands, here as an apt metaphor to accompany the homage paid by contributors to their poet forbears. With additional pergamino (folded broadside) pocketed in, also one of 200 copies and editioned as part of this issue of the press's house magazine. Ediciones Vigía developed the magazine, which was its largest publishing enterprise, in order to platform a greater variety of writers and artists, both Cuban and not. Particular to this issue are the poems of Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, whose vigor and spleen at industrialization in turn-of-the-century France surely resonated with Cuban artists working during the economic perils of the Special Period. Bound in stiff kraft wrappers with collaged front cover of paper, foil, tissue, and cord, with black and white yarn along spine. Mild rubbing to corners, a couple shallow chips to head and foot, else near fine.