Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2001. Poems by American poet laureate Hecht and intaglios by Michael Kuch form a series of 12 fold-out triptychs. 8 x 15. In a black silk tri-fold binding which supports the unfolded sheets. A red window in the upper cover reveals the half-title. Fine in slipcase... More about SEANCE FOR A MINYAN
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2001. 8 x 15. Ten poems by Hecht and 25 intaglios by Kuch appear in a series of 12 fold-out triptychs. In a black silk tri-fold binding which supports the fold-out sheets. A red window in the upper cover reveals the half-title. WITH an extra suite... More about SEANCE FOR A MINYAN
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2004. 18 x 14. 24 leaves. A satiric "natural history." Ten plates (13 1/2 x 9 1/2) are etched with images of the beasts, their common names & binomial nomenclature. The etchings are hand colored by Kuch, in the tradition of natural history books. A description... More about COMMON MONSTERS OF THE UNITED STATES
Hadley: Double Elephant Press, 2006. 17 x 12. Poetry, lithographs, and etchings by Michael Kuch retell the Biblical story of Samson from Delilah's point of view. The book's images refer to and play upon well-known works of art. The upper cover has a collage of a temple with marbled paper... More about DISASTERS OF LOVE – A DEFENSE OF DELILAH
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2002. 11 1/2 x 15. 42 leaves: fourteen poems printed letterpress and twenty-one etchings, mostly in color. Three of the images are large, foldout etchings; two of the images are repeated, making a total of 23 etchings. The binding suggests the former World Trade Towers on... More about FALLING TO EARTH
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2002. Two volumes. 11 1/2 x 15. 42 leaves: fourteen poems printed letterpress and twenty-one etchings, mostly in color. Three of the images are large, foldout etchings; two of the images are repeated, making a total of 23 etchings. The binding suggests the former World Trade... More about FALLING TO EARTH
Hadley: Double Elephant Press, 2007. 15 x 13. 53 leaves. Eight poems on white St.-Armand paper are printed letterpress along with a blind-embossed image. Each poem is followed by five intaglios (2 folding out) on variously colored St.-Armand papers. They are tipped to linen which has a thin copper "spine,"... More about FOSSIL DIRIGIBLES
NY: Double Elephant Press, 1998. 8 1/4 x 9 1/2. A double accordion-fold of 34 leaves: 17 leaves for Gluttons and 17 for Angels, mounted back--to-back and hinged with linen. There are 29 copper-plate etchings: those for Gluttons in shades of brown & rust; Angels in gold, green, and blue... More about GLUTTONS FOR RAPTURE/DEFECATING ANGELS. Two Poems and Etchings by Michael Kuch
(Northampton), 1999. A figure seated within a large clockwork mechanism is drawn by two buffalo reaping wheat. The colors are ochre, orange, vermillion, blues, greens, and purple. Pastel measures 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 and is tipped to a larger mat. Signed "Kuch 1999." Fine. Kuch creates his book images... More about "REAPER." Original pastel for "Apocalypse Clocks."
Asparagus Valley (Hadley): Double Elephant Press, 2004. 7 1/2 x 10. 16 leaves, 6 of which fold out plus a coded spinning wheel. Printed throughout with wood type & chiaroscuro woodcuts in several colors on Japanese handmade paper. Bound by Mark Tomlinson in Shannon Brock's flax fiber wraps printed with... More about A SPHINX'S FIELD GUIDE TO QUESTIONABLE ANSWERS
(Northampton) Oxingale Press, 2000. 11 1/2 x 11 1/2. 34 leaves with sixteen color etchings by Michael Kuch. Bound by Claudia Cohen in lemon-colored cloth & her pastepaper boards with an additional etching inset into upper cover. This deluxe set is accompanied by four cloth-bound portfolios, containing: (1) a CD of... More about LEMONS DESCENDING
