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Making a Sacher Torte

Item date(s): 1981

Walter (Samuel Haatoum) Hamady
Diane Wakoski

Pages: unpaged (44pp)
Size: 285mm
Edition: #155/225

Theme(s): Food

Place publication: Mount Horeb, WI
Publisher: The Perishable press Ltd
Catalogue 101

Additional notes:
Description in Basilisk Press catalogue: "Poems in praise of food by Diane Wakoski illustrated by Ellen Lanyon. Printed in Sabon Antiqua on subtly coloured papers hand made at Perishable. Oh bliss. A genial book which treats food as the great pleasure it is. A welcome retort to self righteious converstions about calories and the meretricious four-colour persiflage of magazines determined to make human beings believe it is not in our stars but in our size that fates are decided. Delectable. 9 poems, 12 illustrations. Herewith published as a sequal to the 1974 Wandering Tattler but replacing birds with food, cooking, eating and drinking in the season of harvests & All Saints Day, Perry Township ndar Minor Confluence / Wisconsion."

Illustrated in Text as Inspiration: Artists' Books and Literature, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2011.

Ref: GB/6882