The Figure a Poem Makes
An essay by ROBERT FROST
2017 / Limited Edition Chapbook / VH0006
[Gaspereau Press Imprint]
¶ In his short 1939 essay ‘The Figure a Poem Makes,’ the American poet Robert Frost is at his plucky best, offering the reader equal measures of both terse New-England matter-of-factness and slippery riddling on the subject of writing: ‘the straight crookedness of a good walking stick.’ Frequently mined for its pithy lines, this essay is one of Frost’s most concise commentaries on the elusive nature of his craft.
Specifications: Typeset in Monotype Joanna and wood type. Printed in black and green on Mohawk Superfine paper. One sheet printed ‘eight-up’, folded and trimmed to 13 × 22 cm making 16 pages. Bound with a three-hole stitch in a black endsheet and a mint-coloured Saint Armand handmade paper wrapper printed in white and green.
16 pages + endsheet
Limited edition of 120 numbered copies
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