Joseph Green
Detail of the Four Chambers to the Horse's Heart
Limited Edition Artist Book
$100
Note and text sample for Allen Braden's Detail of the Four Chambers to the Horse's Heart:
Excerpt of text reads:
Listen. The last time I saw my father
alive, he spoke of horses, the brute geometry
of a broken team in motion. He tallied
the bushels of oats, gallons of water
down to the drop each task would cost.
How Belgians loved hardwood hames the most.
Give them the timber sled at logging camp
any day, the workable meadows in need
of leveling, tilling, harrowing, new seeding.
We could've been in our dark loafing shed,
cooling off between loads of chopping hay,
the way he carried on that last good day.
With proper encouragement, he said,
they would work themselves to death.
Six-panel accordion-fold with a linoleum cut by Marquita Green, hand-set Baskerville text and Spartan Heavy titling on Canson Edition paper. Six by seven inches, folded. Copyright 2010, by Allen Braden, from A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood, University of Georgia Press.
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