Marie C. Dern presents and discusses a selection of her handmade books
from Jungle Garden Press, founded in 1974, and a selection of books from
Red Berry Editions, which she founded in 2008 with Jane Downs. Both
presses publish collaborations with writers and visual artists, and
Jungle Garden Press includes books written by Dern. Dern will also talk
about her newest book from Jungle Garden Press, Not an Exit, with poems
by Bill Berkson and drawings by Leonie Guyer, which will be published
later this fall.
Jungle Garden Press books are letterpress
printed and hand bound. Dern says her intention is "to make the
experience of reading beautiful to the touch and the eyes as well as the
mind, and to make the text understandable to the reader in the way I
interpret it." Red Berry Editions books include commercially printed
and letterpress printed.
Authors published by Jungle Garden
Press and Red Berry Editions include Kay Ryan, Betty Allen Smith, Jane
Downs, and David Scounce, and artists include Inez Storer and Carl Dern.
Books
from both presses will be available for sale after the presentation.
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