First I Fold the Mountain
Terry Ann Carter

First I Fold the Mountain is Terry Ann Carter's love poem to books: handmade books, Borges' notion of the unwritten book (inspired by his short story "The Library of Babel"), a husband and wife dos a dos book, the hanging books for German dada artist Kurt Schwitters, and a scroll book featuring tanka composed in the voice of Ono-no Komachi. The collection is inspired by this haiku (published in the Literary Review of Canada) in 2016, and an earlier chapbook of the same title.

book maker
first I fold the mountain
then the valley

Black Moss Press | 2022 | 80 pages | 978-0-618-26030-0 | $18.95
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