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A revisioning of the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of American

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Author(s):

Benka, Jen

Title:

Alternative Title:

Preamble

Date:

2003

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Inside pages

Image Description:

Left page text includes: PERFECT he took it apart convinced that he could fix it.... Right page text includes: UNION locked link a line of strangers....

Press(es):

Booklyn

Physical Description:

1 v. (unpaged); 23 cm

Subject(s):

American poetry

Subject(s):

United States -- Constitution -- Poetry

Book Type(s):

Artists' books

Description:

"All books in this edition are handbound with letterpress covers. Four hundred proletarian copies with scrolling sidebar are numbered 1 to 400. Fifty bourgeois copies with index tabs and double ply pages are named after the fifty states"--Dust jacket<br>Library owns copy no. 123 of 400 numbered "proletarian" copies.<br>Letterpress printing.

Abstract Description:

The poet "wrote one poem for each of the fifty-two words in the nation's preamble to the Constitution in an effort to examine, expose, and rewrite the document one word at a time"--Publisher's description

Binding:

Sewn fold binding - paper cover with dust jacket

Process/Technique:

Letterpress printing

ImageID:

artb44098E

Collection:

Otis Library's Artists' Books

Record created:

Jan. 23, 2020

Last modified:

Jan. 23, 2020

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