BURNING BOOKS CLASSICS
Burning Books Press offers a selection of classic English and French poetry, in limited editions of 100. Burning Books Classics are hand-cut and individually-assembled artist’s books. Each volume of classic poetry is signed and dated by the artist upon completion.
"Hand-cut and individually-assembled visual poetry chapbooks in color."
TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by Andrew Marvell
TO HIS COY MISTRESS
A love-struck Elizabethan poet yearns for his deliciously unapproachable love. Text by Andrew Marvell; illustrated by David Drum. 49 pages, 4.5 x 6.5. Cut paper and mixed media, boxed, with bells attached. Signed, numbered and dated by artist. Limited Edition of 100.
$665.00.
LUX, by Victor Hugo
LUX
Victor Hugo’s startling hymn to revolutionary freedom, penned in a moment of fervent hope during the French Revolution. French text by Victor Hugo. English translation and illustrations by David Drum. 26 pages, 4.5 x 6. Limited Edition of 100, signed, numbered and dated. $495.00
SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by W.B. Yeats
SAILING TO BYZANTIUM
William Butler Yeats’s bittersweet journey to the dreamy edge of history. Illustrated by David Drum. 27 pages, 5.5 x 8.5. Signed, numbered and dated by artist.
Limited Edition of 100.
$495.00
BAD BLOOD, by Arthur Rimbaud
BAD BLOOD
Arthur Rimbaud’s harrowing prose poem of madness and despair, translated into English and illustrated by David Drum. Mixed media, 18 pages, 10 x 13, lapis lazuli, beads. Limited Edition of 100, signed and dated by artist. $345.00
SNOWY EVENING, by Robert Frost
SNOWY EVENING
Robert Frost’s classic meditation on life, captured in a moment of melancholy silence on a snow-swept New England night. Illustrated by David Drum. 20 pages, 6 x 9.
Limited Edition of 100, signed, numbered, and dated by artist. $325.00
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