This exquisite limited-edition chapbook is a fine-press gem, letterpress printed by Fameorshame Press for Center for Book Arts. With just 100 numbered and signed copies, it celebrates Lynn Emanuel’s role as the guest judge of the 2002 Poetry Chapbook Competition.
Printed on tan paper wrappers bearing a silhouette motif and hand-sewn with ivory string, the 12-page volume invites quiet contemplation of language, identity, and artistic self-reflection. Emanuel’s voice—sharp, tender, and deeply attentive—makes this work more than a collection of poems; it becomes a meditative exploration of the “self-portrait” made in words.
Collectors of book arts and admirers of Emanuel’s poetry alike will find in this chapbook an elegant intersection of craft and literary voice—a hand-made object that honours the physical book as art while offering poems that linger long after the page is turned.
Lynn Emmanuel judged the 2002 Chapbook Competition.
Letterpress printed by Fameorshame Press.