A Poet Dies (1980)

By Jim Carroll
Walker Art Center Reading Series 1980-1981
Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger

“A Poet Dies,” later published in The
Book of Nods (1986), and in Fear of Dreaming
(1993), is one of 20 broadsides issued for the Walker Art Center
Reading Series.

All
copies are printed on varying shades of Canson Mi-Tientes paper;
“A Poet Dies” is on maroon-colored paper.

There were
125 numbered and signed copies (the copy shown here appears to
be #50), with 54 complete sets of the signed/numbered edition
presented in a white Fabriano folder; the label on the cover is
by Al Buck.

There were also 26 complete sets, lettered and signed,
presented in a grey fabric-covered box.

View this broadside in the Image Gallery

Thanks
to LaVerne Kreklau for contributing this image!

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