Mary Risala Laird

Mary Louise Laird, a native of Milwaukee, founded Quelquefois Press in 1969 at Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, where she also worked with her former husband, Walter Hamady, at the Perishable Press. In 1988 she moved to Berkeley, California, where she continues to print under the Quelquefois imprint. Her deep interest in mysticism and Sufism is evident in much of her later work.

Kindred Flame/ Anita Barrows
(Six poems)
2009/Quelquefois Press/Berkeley
6 ¾ inches x 10 inches x   ½ inch :: 44 pages
Artwork by Mary Risala Laird
Binding : Medieval style double cord laced binding with stenciled flame covers and copper corners. This book is vibrant with the energy of life and spirit in all its manifestations. Barrow’s poetry
transcends the limitation of physicality, suggesting a paradoxical permanence to the ephemeral. This is the most adventurous of Laird’s  large-edition work to date .Acrostic colophon below:

Almost a decade ago Anita and I witnessed the
Nascence of this book. After Bixlers set the book
In Dante, it aged like good wine chez moi.
Time Passed. More than 105 runs in half again
As many colors, were avidly printed since April.
Boards cut on my radial arm saw were bases for
Abstracts torn or cut from tape and printed by
Risala . Papers: dampened Johannot text, and a
Regalia of Chatham paper  from Barcham Green
On the book at either end. Edition of 101 sewn
With help from E. Salasin, A. Hudes, M. Laird &
S. Hamady. Invisible help always present. copy (_x_)

$750
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