Broadsided! The Intersection of Art and Literature

Brian D. Cohen
Putney, VT

Title: Parable
Author: Anne-Marie Macari
Edition: 35
Size: 15 x 22 inches
Price: $375

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Colophon: Etching with surface roll and letterpress on Magnani Pescia.

Brian D. Cohen
Putney, VT

Title: A Coney Island of the Mind
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Edition: 25
Size: 15 x 22 inches
Price: $325

To purchase, please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Colophon: Etching with surface roll and letterpress on Magnani Pescia.

The Text Featured on These Broadsides

Parable                                             Anne Marie Macari

The parable of the pears was the one never repeated
because it has to do with sex, and more than sex
it was Jesus at his best showing them secrets
about the different kinds of love. There was a pear
whose brown skin had the whole rough hillside in it,
but inside so sweet he had to lie down to eat it,
and a more rare, red-skinned pear. It had no shame.
The harsh Jesus of the figs and vines
was undone, thankful, he was brimming,
in his mouth that taste he could never confide,
they would never believe him, they still wore
the dullness, they still thought day to day,
something simple might change their lives if only
they listened, if only they forgot everything
they knew, something of heaven would sprout

From A Coney Island of the Mind                                           Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The poet's eye obscenely seeing
sees the surface of the round world
                  with its drunk rooftops
                  and wooden oiseaux on clotheslines
                  and its clay males and females
                  with hot legs and rosebud breasts
                  in rollaway beds
and its trees full of mysteries
and its Sunday parks and speechless statues
and its America
                  with its ghost towns and empty Ellis Islands
and its surrealistic landscape of
                                    mindless prairies
                                    supermarket suburbs
                                    steamheated cemeteries
                                    and protesting cathedrals
a kissproof world of plastic toiletseats tampax and taxis
         drugged store cowboys and las vegas virgins
         disowned indians and cinemad matrons      
         unroman senators and conscientious non-objectors
and all the other fatal shorn-up fragments
of the immigrant's dream come too true
         and mislaid
                among the sunbathers