Reprints, Reissues, Reimaginings > Faster than Birds Can Fly
Granary reissued a trade edition of John Ashbery’s The Vermont Notebook in 2001, but they took a bolder approach with the 2009 limited edition of Faster than Birds Can Fly. For it, the artist Trevor Winkfield created bold bright drawings to accompany a poem of Ashbery’s. The effect, Winkfield says, was to transform Ashbery’s poem into an updated illuminated manuscript. Philip Gallo at the Hermetic Press handled the typography and the book was printed at Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints. Bound by Judith Ivry in an edition of 40.