The Light of the Leaves with Screen Prints by Jan Hendrix – Signed Copy Seamus Heaney

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The Light of the Leaves with Screen Prints by Jan Hendrix – Signed Copy
Seamus Heaney
Published by Banholt, Mexico D.F., 1999

From The London Magazine: The long friendship and collaboration between Seamus Heaney and Jan Hendrix has been hitherto a little known story and began on paper and in inspiration many years before they first met in person. When the late Nobel prize-winning Irish poet and the Dutch-born artist and architect finally met backstage at the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam in 1993 it was, as Hendrix evocatively recounts, in the good company of Joseph Brodsky, James Fenton, Bert Schierbeek, totally hilarious and carburetted by whiskey and vodka. In the late 1970s Hendrix chanced upon a copy of Heaney s first published collection, Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber, 1966), and was, as he says, immediately hooked . One poem in the collection, Lovers on Arran , inspired him to create a series of prints which he sent to Heaney in Dublin.

The prints generated an initially hesitant correspondence between the two, which then gained a far greater momentum when a mutual friend, Dutch poet Hans van de Waarsenburg, not only became their go-between but also suggested that the pair should collaborate on a book. In the end their collaboration grew to a trilogy of exquisite, limited edition, letterpress books combining Heaney s words and Hendrix s artworks, conceived, created, and published over a period of nearly twenty five years. Beautiful copy of rare masterpiece of collaboration between Poet and Artist. Signed by Seamus Heaney and Jan Hendrix. Seller Inventory # 556

Title: The Light of the Leaves with Screen Prints
Publisher: Banholt, Mexico D.F.
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: Limited Edition