KALDRON NRS 8, 9, 10 AND 15. 1979 – 1980. FOUR PRINT EDITIONS OF KALDRON.

paul robertson — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 13:50:40 +0000

Grover City: Kaldron, 1979 - 1980
45 x 29cm, tabloid. Nrs 8 - 10 on newspaper stock and nr 15 on semi-coated stock. Nrs 8 - 10 are 16pp self cover while nr 15 is 20pp (self-cover). Four separate numbers of this concrete poetry magazine founded by Karl Kempton as "a tabloid for lyric and visual poetry, presented as collaborations or parallels". By 1979, around the issue nr 8 offered here, the magazine shifted to publishing only visual poetry and it was the only magazine at the time in the U.S. exclusively dedicated solely to visual poetry. The magazine had an open editorial policy with guest curators choosing the content of individual pages and reprinting items submitted with contact details alongside the artworks (which hinted at a role as an unintended mail art journal). Kaldron (named after the Fire symbol from the i-Ching) became financially a drain on the publisher and from the early 1990s the zine turned to the internet to continue publication while print copies ceased. The four issues here are typical of this significant publication and while the early issues are heavily browned due to the inferior newsprint and all four numbers are folded for storage they are, apart from some minor edge wear, all in very good condition. Copies are scarce.

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5 VISUAL POEMS. 1986. ORIGINAL PRINTS BY IAN HAMILTON FINLAY, JONATHAN WILLAIMS, PHIL GALLO, KARL KEMPTON & SCOTT HELMES. ONE OF ONLY C. 140 COPIES .

paul robertson — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:37:09 +0000

Minneapolis : Phil Gallo at the Hermetic Press, 1986
28 x 40cm, yellow printed folder in the form of an envelope content of 5 "visual poems" on various papers:

1) A Discrete Sign on the Steinway., by Jonathan Williams. One of 130 copies.

2) My Lipstick.from His Lips.To Your Teeth, by Phil Gallo, edition limited to 100 copies.

3) EMPO POEM, by Karl Kempton, edition limited to 100 copies

4) Language, by Scott Helmes, edition limited to 100 copies

and Finlay's contribution:

5) Strawberry Hill "Precipices, Mountains.," by Ian Hamilton Finlay, edition limited to 140 copies. 35.5 x 17cm, 1pp. The print is a letterpress on deckled paper - which quotes Horace Walpole on his intent to create a "little Gothic Castle at Strawberry Hill". Below that quotation is a further quotation from Walpole (the son of the then British Prime Minister) describing the environment on Strawberry Hill namely "Precipices, mountains, torrents, wolves, rumblings" and the below that a final pairing of "Wild cats, Corsairs..." which are the names of carrier-borne aircraft from the Second World War. Finlay seems to be comparing the wilds of Walpoles imaginings to the fires of the weapons of an aircraft carrier. A carrier after all is a wild hill on the sea.

This is one of two colour variants of the outer envelope - here green - there was also a light yellow version.

Wikipedia explains that "Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is the Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London by Horace Walpole from 1749 onward. It is the type example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture, and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival." Walpole was also the author of ‘The Castle of Otranto’, the world’s first Gothic novel. Finlay's work might be seen as a word picture of Gothic landscape.

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KALDRON NRS 8, 9, 10 AND 15. 1979 – 1980. FOUR PRINT EDITIONS OF KALDRON.

5 VISUAL POEMS. 1986. ORIGINAL PRINTS BY IAN HAMILTON FINLAY, JONATHAN WILLAIMS, PHIL GALLO, KARL KEMPTON & SCOTT HELMES. ONE OF ONLY C. 140 COPIES .