The Astronomy of Love

by Kathleen Norris

illustrated by Ed Colker

Unsigned and unnumbered Limited Edition. New York: Haybarn Press, 1994.

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Gray cloth binding features silver lettering on front and black illustrations inside. 
• Front cover displays mild overall fading with a little staining near foot edge, as well as a 0.5" tear along shoulder.
• Back cover exhibits moderate scattered staining as well as a 4.5" x 8.5" area of fading where cloth is blue. (See photos)
• Foot corners display minor bumping, with some rubbing minimally exposing board. (See photos)
• Spine shows some minor darkening.
• Binding is secure.
• Interior shows little to no wear or aging.
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Fore edge of textblock displays a tiny stain that continues on edge of back cover. Stain minimally affects page edges. (See photos) 
• Book may exhibit additional minor signs of age or wear.
• SC20190801

Unpaginated. Approx. 40 pages. 6 x 11 inches.

The poems of Kathleen Norris are imbued with spirituality and feeling. They express the conflict of the human soul with life and with death, and evoke in turn darkness and light, pain and joy, anguish and comfort. This collection gives an overview of her beautiful, heart-searching style through 26 poems that explore the themes familiar to the author.

Kathleen Norris (b. 1947) is an American poet and essayist. Her first book of poetry was published two years after she became arts administrator of the Academy of American Poets. Seventeen years later in 1986 she became a Benedictine oblate at Assumption Abbey Richardton ND, and this marked a period of focus on death and depression in her literary works.

Ed Colker is a painter, printmaker, and poet whose abstract lithographs depict organic gestural forms. He is also an accomplished writer who has published and illustrated several limited edition books.

Features the illustrations of Ed Colker. 

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