Alan Loney; Paul Thompson (illus.)
Gallipoli, 2005
Mission, BC: Barbarian Press
One of 125 copies.
1951
Oblong 16mo. (28)pp. A sequence of nine poems composed by poet and printer Alan Loney in response to four photocollages by Thompson. Thompson's own image have here been transposed into...
Oblong 16mo. (28)pp. A sequence of nine poems composed by poet and printer Alan Loney in response to four photocollages by Thompson. Thompson's own image have here been transposed into three-color "alphabetic" illustrations. Together these muse on the ways letters and language can, or cannot, describe ideological and literal warfare. Loney articulates the matter by describing a ruined sign at a battle site, where "what looks like bullet-holes are where the alphabet has fallen off the face of the earth." Bound in printed handmade paper over boards backed in green cloth. Fine.