Design

Poem by Billy Collins
Graphic by Sandy Tilcock

I pour a coating of salt on the table
and make a circle in it with my finger.
This is the cycle of life
I say to no one.
This is the wheel of fortune. . .

Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureate between 2001 and 2003 and author of eight books of poetry, is currently the poet laureate of New York.

"Design" by Billy Collins from the Art of Drowning, by Billy Collins, copyright 1995. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Printed in honor of the poet's visit to the University of Oregon, September 24, 2006. 

Specifications

• Edition of 102 numbered copies
• Signed by the author
• 9 x 17.5 inches
• Printed on Mingei dyed paper from Japan
  
• Designed and printed at Sandy Tilcock's lone goose press for Knight Library Press
  
• Publication Date: September 2006

Price $90.00

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