Visions. Text of "Kubla Kahn or A Vision in a Dream, A Fragment. Images by Dorothy Krause by Krause, Dorothy Simpson. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - 2011

Marshfield Hills, MA: Viewpoint Editions, 2011. Artist's book, one of 15 copies, all on Mohawk Superfine 80# coverstock, each signed and numbered on the last page by the artist, Dorothy Simpson Krause. Page size: 7 x 5 inches; 32pp. Bound: sewn in case binding of Asahi fabric over boards, tan cloth spine, title and author gold-foil stamped on gold oriental paper on front cover, endsheets of Lokta paper, housed in gold organza bag with gold drawstring ties. Coleridge's text is printed with an HP Indigo 5500 by Acme Bookbinding in Lucinda Handwriting font and Mistral for the cover. The artist's statement tells us that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, KUBLA KAHN OR A VISION IN A DREAM, A FRAGMENT, was composed in 1797 after an opium influenced dream. Ms. Krause has informed and captured the "vision" of the poem with a series of images of submerged architectural passageways, lit from within. They reflect branches, illuminate floating leaves and flowers and reference Coleridge's cataclysmic vision. The book is often dark - but shot with streaks of light, mysterious and romantic enough for even Kubla Khan.