Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York); front cover and container verso
Item Data
Creator
García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936.
Date
2006
Item Source
RAREO; PQ 6613 .A763 P7 2006; The University of Michigan Special Collections Library
Description
Part of a series of handmade books made with recycled and industrial papers.Text block stapled and bound in coarse brown paper wrapper. The central rectangular portion of the cover has been torn away revealing a thick, white textured sheet of paper that has been spray painted blue and attached on p. 2 of cover. Mounted on the front cover are cut-out reproduced line drawings, decorative cut-out paper letters spelling "poeta," and a crescent moon of blue painted corrugated paper. The rest of the binding is similarly decorated. The book is housed in a hand made white paper enclosure with title in mounted decorative letters cut from coarse brown paper; author's name in drawn handwriting on watercolored paper, cut out and mounted. Housing decorated with cut-out reproduced line drawings on coarse brown and light blue paper.
