LANGUAGE - The limited NO REPLY PRESS edition of Morrison's Nobel Lecture, with woodblocks by Elizabeth Catlett
by Toni Morrison
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Portland Oregon: No Reply Press, 2023. Edition limited to 400. Wrappers. NEW/no dj's as issued. Elizabeth Catlett. No Reply Press, 2023
BY TONI MORRISON, WITH WOODBLOCKS BY ELIZABETH CATLETT
At the pinnacle of world literature, in her lecture upon receiving the Nobel Prize, Toni Morrison used her platform to urge care with words.
"Language," she said, "is susceptible to death, erasure; certainly imperiled and salvageable only by an effort of the will."
Language is not fixed, but precious and delicate - like a bird in your hands.
With its elegiac prose and interweaving of narrative and polemic, Morrison's meditation is worth continual close reading. To celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, and with special permission from the Nobel Prize Committee, we have printed her lecture alongside the gripping woodblocks of Elizabeth Catlett.
The edition is limited to 400 copies, numbered 1 through 400.
The twenty-third imprint of No Reply Press, 2023.
Typeset in 11-point Centuar.
20 pages, Measuring 6 by 9 inches.
Printed by hand on Cotton Flurry using a Vandercook Universal I.
Bound in Suminagashi-style wrappers.
BY TONI MORRISON, WITH WOODBLOCKS BY ELIZABETH CATLETT
At the pinnacle of world literature, in her lecture upon receiving the Nobel Prize, Toni Morrison used her platform to urge care with words.
"Language," she said, "is susceptible to death, erasure; certainly imperiled and salvageable only by an effort of the will."
Language is not fixed, but precious and delicate - like a bird in your hands.
With its elegiac prose and interweaving of narrative and polemic, Morrison's meditation is worth continual close reading. To celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, and with special permission from the Nobel Prize Committee, we have printed her lecture alongside the gripping woodblocks of Elizabeth Catlett.
The edition is limited to 400 copies, numbered 1 through 400.
The twenty-third imprint of No Reply Press, 2023.
Typeset in 11-point Centuar.
20 pages, Measuring 6 by 9 inches.
Printed by hand on Cotton Flurry using a Vandercook Universal I.
Bound in Suminagashi-style wrappers.
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- Bookseller
- Rare Books Honolulu (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2023Ka
- Title
- LANGUAGE - The limited NO REPLY PRESS edition of Morrison's Nobel Lecture, with woodblocks by Elizabeth Catlett
- Author
- Toni Morrison
- Illustrator
- Elizabeth Catlett
- Format/Binding
- Wrappers
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- no dj's as issued
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Edition limited to 400
- Publisher
- No Reply Press
- Place of Publication
- Portland Oregon
- Date Published
- 2023
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