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Allegory of the Confederation Rhenane / Allegorie auf die Confédération Rhenane

It’s Fine Press Friday!

On this fine #Fine Press Friday we bring you, Evolution: A Prose Poem Sequence by American poet Anthony Butts, with woodcuts by Thomas Huck, published by Sutton Hoo Press in Lacrosse, Wisconsin in 1998. 

Sutton Hoo Press was founded in 1989 by the poet C. Mikal Oness. The press printed editions for 24 titles between 1992 and 2009. “The primary mission of the press is to publish contemporary literature in handsomely designed limited editions. Sutton Hoo Press publishes well-known writers such as Philip Levine, Lynne McMahon, Charles Wright, Maurya Simon, Gary Young and Peter Everwine, as well as younger, emerging writers.”

Tom Huck is a printmaker whose work often depicts absurd and satirical scenes. Though these woodcuts are small and well suited to this fine book, Huck often works on a larger scale. His complex compositions and mark-making, which appear to have been made with ease, have caused Tom Huck to be called a modern day Albrecht Dürer.

This book was printed in an edition of 126 with Cochin types on dampened Johannot paper. The design is by C. Mikal Oness, and the edition was printed with help from Andrea Chua, Gerald Cook, Nicole Gauger, Greg Giesking, Lee Hemmersbach, Christine Kieltyka, Charles Pineda, Susan Taubel & Gregg Sharf. 

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