But Move Not.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Down Home Girl Studio,, 2012.. Edition of 31. 6 x 4"; 14 pages including pastedowns. Letterpress printed using photopolymer plates on Rives BFK papers. Bound in quarter cloth with letterpress printed handmade paper boards. Drum leaf binding. Signed and numbered on the colophon by Sawyer. Colophon: "But Move Not is a collaboration among friends - a poet and an artist. It was inspired by the red mangroves off the coast of Florida, which serve as the nursery for countless forms of flora and fauna. "The poem was written by Eder J. Williams in 2011. The book was designed, letterpress printed, and handbound by Suzanne Sawyer of Down Home Girl Studio in 2012."  Suzanne Sawyer: "'But Move Not' is the first of two collaborations with Eder J. Williams McKnight. ... It was inspired by a canoe trip ... to the mangroves of 10,000 Islands off the coast of Florida. The images are created from drawings based on photographs taken during the trip. The images are layered one over the other much like the mangroves overlap in a beautiful tangle of roots. "Eder and I taught together in Atlanta and have since both moved on to other work. Knowing of Eder’s beautiful writing and the fact that we are kindred spirits of sorts, I invited her to write a piece inspired by the photographs I took on the trip. She currently lives in New York so our collaboration was a long distance one over email conversations. Eder and I collaborated again on A Burlap Bloom, which was my thesis project." Faculty profile, CITYterm: "Eder J. Williams McKnight teaches in the Urban Core. She is a native Atlantan, but also has called Mmabatho, South Africa; Albuquerque, NM; and Harlem, NY home. She arrived to CITYterm after working at The Westminster Schools (Atlanta) where she taught English and an interdisciplinary course. There, she also directed an exchange program between Westminster and Mount Kenya Academy, an independent school in Nyeri, Kenya. … Her formal studies have led to an A.B in International Relations from Brown University, an M.A. in English Literature from The Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College, and an Ed.M in Educational Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University, where she was a Klingenstein Fellow. Currently, Eder is working on an MFA in poetry through the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing.…