Cathay: Poems After Li Po

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1992. Hardcover. Orig. blue Japanese linen with blocked design in blind on upper cover. Very good in very good slipcase. Clemente, Francesco. 34 pages. 32 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 13 of 300 set in Monotype Lutetia, signed by Francesco Clemente with seven color woodcut illustrations by the latter. Francesco Clemente is a contemporary Italian artist known for his dreamlike paintings based on esoteric themes of sexuality and spirituality. In the 1980's he collaborated with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg. Editions designed by Dan Carr, printed by Arthur Larson on handmade Japanese Ogawashi paper. Originally published: New Directions, 1926 in Personæ: the shorter poems of Ezra Pound. Sunning to spine and slipcase edges.