Wild Whispers
Poems by Roxie Powell.
Published Spring 2000.
Chapbook. 5 1/2″ × 8 1/2″ (13.9 × 21.6 cm). Letterpress-printed wraps featuring a holograph poem by Roxie Powell on the cover and issued with a letterpress-printed dust jacket. Introduction by Anselm Hollo. Afterword by Charles Plymell. Published by the synaesthesia press.
Edition of 125 copies. Ninety-nine numbered copies were signed by the poet. Twenty-six lettered copies were additionally signed by Roxie Powell, Anselm Hollo, and Charles Plymell.
The lettered issue included three separately printed broadsides by Roxie Powell not present in the standard edition: “Untitled (Roxie Powell),” “It will be,” and “My Barber.” The broadsides were hand-set and letterpress printed by Jim Camp using Nicolas Cochin, Garamond, and Lydian type from the Antonia and Adam Petko Collection at Arizona State University.
Wild Whispers brought together three generations of poets associated with the American small press tradition. In addition to Powell’s poems, the volume features an introductory note by Anselm Hollo and an afterword by Charles Plymell. The specially issued broadsides expanded the lettered edition beyond the published text and remain among the more elaborate accompaniments produced by the press.
