Brethren: Order of the Seasons

About the book:
Brethren: Order of the Seasons, published in Fall of 2007, combines a long prose poem by Robert Strong with Peter Yumi’s batiks and polyacrylic resin inlays. Printed in an edition of 50 copies, the book is set in Centaur typeface and is bound by hand.

About the author:
Robert Strong is author of Puritan Spectacle and editor of Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry. He lives in Canton, New York with his wife and son.

About the artists:
Peter Yumi is a multi-media artist.

Karla Kelsey is a poet and bookmaker.

From the book:
The women are dying, or have done something bad, or have had something bad done to them or wake every morning & work. The crows have the angel apparatus & ugly devil feet. They approach the sky like English. I watch things carefully. People see me. These birds, there is a moment when they decide to open & fly. The terrible moment when I feel myself breathe–the muscle & bone moving, my lungs unfolding.

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