Cow Tales Poems From The Skagit River 1973 [ Fishtown ]
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Limited Edition Poetry Collection Cow Tales: Poems From The Skagit River Delta From Residents of Fishtown Artists Community Including Paul Hansen, Charles Krafft, and Steve Herold
Hansen, Paul. Herold, Steve, Krafft, Charles. Miller, Bo. Stockley, Daniel. Jarrett, Elizabeth. Nelsen, Hans. Cow Tales: Poems from the Skagit River Delta. The Dharma Foundation. Fishtown, La Conner, Washington. 1973.
A rare copy of the collection Cow Tales: Poems From The Skagit River Delta, a joint art and poetry venture by early Fishtown members limited to 200 copies (plus an additional 10 handbound examples). Exemplary of the community ethos, per Kathleen Moles, curator of the Museum of Northwest Art, “In Fishtown, boundaries between artistic disciplines blurred. Poets painted, painters wrote poetry, an architect carved cedar and made mandalas, and calligraphers and scholars became poets. Collaborations were also common, with each artist contributing part to a larger whole.” In addition to Steve Herold, who owned this copy, the collection also includes work from Paul Hansen, later a noted translator of Chinese poetry, and Charles Krafft, Fishtown “mayor”, who rose to prominence for his “disasterware” sculpture series before falling from favor in his final years for espousing White Nationalist views.
Four copies found in OCLC as of March 2024.
[27]pp. Saddle stich bound with printed card wraps. Wear to spine ends. Minor soiling front wrap interior. Illustrated throughout. Very good.
If you liked this item, you might also enjoy this limited edition broadside poem by Charles Krafft featuring art and calligraphy from fellow Fishtown artists. You might also enjoy this copy of Herman Hesse’s In The Fog created by Steve Herold in 1971.
