Meyer, Thomas

Kintsugi

Buffalo, NY: Punch Press, 2009. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "Every object or relationship or feeling, ill-roused from its sleep by words, soon slips back into lostness, pastness, leaving the same sort of aftertaste that music does. I don't think I ever felt this more keenly than when I read Tom Meyer's elegy for Jonathan (Williams), a text written in and through the very death it mourned- like a parallel text to that dying." (from introduction, "Speaking to Thomas Meyer's Kintsugi," by Robert Kelly) A chapbook with the title poem by Thomas Meyer, the esteemed North Carolina poet, an elegy to his longtime partner, the acclaimed poet & publisher Jonathan Williams (1929-2008), upon his death. With introduction by the great Deep Image master poet Robert Kelly (quoted above). The title refers to the ancient "Japanese practice of repairing ceramics with gold laced lacquer to illuminate the breakage" as noted. The analogy with Meyer's equivalent poetic practice is clear. An especially beautiful, exquisite handmade letterpress production of unknown limitation preceding the trade edition issued by a different publisher two years later (2011). With stunning illustrations "...based on resin images produced expressly for this project by Erica Van Horn in August, 2008..." (per colophon) on front cover & interior. A very scarce Meyer collectible; among the most subtly superb exemplars of the chapbook craft we have ever encountered. In very fine condition, substantially mint inside & out. Very Fine. [Item #3584]

Price: $50.00