"SIGNED with small illustration by the author in black ink on the colophon. [12]pp. Square 24mo [15cm]; string-sewn in original plain navy blue wraps, and in the original cream colored letterpress printed dust jacket. No flaws. A beautiful letterpress chapbook production. The colophon states: ""100 copies printed on Rives buff lightweight in 12 pt. Joanna and hand-sewn into Nideggen wrappers by Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson for friends of the press at Solstice, 40077."" American poet and translator Sam Hamill (1943?2018) was also co-founder of the influential Copper Canyon Press. Over his five-decade career, he published poetry collections, taught in prisons, and founded Poets Against the War, a movement to protest the 2003 Iraq invasion. Copper Canyon Press is a nonprofit, independent poetry publisher that ""believes poetry is vital to language and living."" The press was founded by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, and other associates in 1972 in Denver, CO, and moved to Port Townsend, WA in 1974. First edition. Limited edition of 100 copies."