Nadine Shelly
dakini dreams — 16 poems
"Only sixteen poems and yet after reading them, I felt I'd been around the world and back again. This exquisite collection speaks to, and exists within, the spiritual and physical dimensions simultaneously. Such beauty and tenderness, and yes, keen-eyed attention to the difficult business of being human."
— Patricia Young
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Colophon: Cover 6" x 8 1/2", with French flaps. Paper: Environment Smooth Natural White 80lb, 100% recycled, 50% sugar cane fiber. Cover flap blind-embossed with "island poets" in 48 pt Palatino. Title and author hand-set in metal type and letterpress printed by Peter Haase on a 100-year-old C & P platen press. Type: Italian Old Style Roman 36, 30 & 24 pt. cast by Jim Rimmer of Pie Tree Press. Two colours of ink hand mixed (greens). Linocuts created and printed by Peter Haase; arbutus against the sky and colour sweep across bottom of cover. Endpapers handmade by Reg Lissel: 100% deckled cotton with pieces of summer seaweed, dried arbutus & wasp nest, harvested on Salt Spring Island. Vat sized and air dried. 2nd endpaper: Environment Green Tea Smooth, 60lb, 100% recycled, 50% sugar cane fiber. Text paper: Concept Vellum, Sand, 60lb, acid-free. Text set in Aldine. Layout by Mark Hand Design. Book designed, edited and constructed by Mona Fertig. 28 pages. Handsewn with green embroidery thread from France. Inside text printed by Imagine That Graphics — Salt Spring Island — on a Xerox Phaser 7750GX. Chapbook comes in bi-orientated polyproylene acid-free bag. Numbered and signed by the author. Published by (m)Öthêr Tøñgué Presš — October 2005. © 2005 Nadine Shelly.
About the Author: Nadine Shelly has been dreaming and playing with language for as long as she can remember. She was born in Papua New Guinea and grew up in La Ronge, in northern Saskatchewan. She has been on Salt Spring Island for most of the past sixteen years, along with journeys to Japan, Mexico, Guatemala, India, Nepal and parts of Europe. She lives with her favourite muses, artist Joshua Beckett, and their children, Kephra and Atum Quinn, in an arbutus grove on a hill. Nadine has published one book of poetry, Barebacked with Rain with Exile Editions (1990), and her work was included in the anthology Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets, edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane (1995). She received the Morley Callaghan Protege Award from the Toronto Arts Award Foundation, and has read at the Vancouver International Writer's Festival. Nadine is currently at work on her first book for children.
Edition: Limited Edition of 125.
ISBN: 1-896949-36-3
Year: 2005
Price: $30 CND plus $3.00 shipping
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