3iBooks is a moon-unit of Wicker Park Press Ltd of River Forest, IL. In an effort to re-invent itself every so often this luminous body has gone thinking outside the box yet again and has power-partnered with the Chicago Poetry Center (www.poetrycenter.org) to offer a wide variety of rare limited edition broadsides featuring prominent Poets & Writers of the modern, post-modern, and post-human era.
The Broadside is an art form dating back to the 17th century, and they were printed as a political statement or bold opinion to the citizenry. The original meaning, a barrage of cannon fire launched by one ship to another, eventually led to the connotation to "let loose" or write a strongly-worded opinion, the most famous of which were the Dunlap Broadsides, first published copies if the Declaration of Independence. This tradition led to printing poems from the oral tradition of the ballad.
Today's broadsides are printed on letterpress, illustrated by an artist, and signed and numbered by the poet and the artist.
Some of the poets with broadsides: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mark Strand, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Liesel Muller, Ted Kooser, Kay Ryan, Natalie Merchant, and Billy Corgan
Some of the painters with broadsides: Ed Paschke, Tony Fitzpatrick, Laura Letinsky, Marcos Raya, and Stanley Tigerman
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