Suite para voz y corazón en traje negro / Suite pour voix et coeur en robe noire [Suite for Voice and Heart in Black Dress]

Estévez, Rolando

Notes: 5 leaves and three pergaminos (two folded, one rolled). 7 by 9-3/4 inches; the folded broadsides unfurl to 72 inches; the scroll unrolls to 23 inches. One of 50 copies. Colección Puente de Hierro.

A complex book-object designed by Estévez and Laura Ruiz Montes. It encloses a long poem for Edith Piaf by Estévez in Spanish and French translation. The poems are digitally printed on many sheets assembled into two long, side-by-side fold-outs affixed to facing pages of the book. The illustrations, reproducing Estévez's line drawings, are pasted down on other pages, and they, too, unfold. The cover is decorated with a shell, a cut-out of a black dress that extends beyond the edges of the book, a picture of Piaf, and collage elements made from paper, cloth, and cardboard.

The principal illustration is a double scroll attached to the right side of the book. The scroll unrolls to reveal a multi-sheet, handcolored illustration of the Eiffel Tower, overlaid with mesh with cut-out paper angels.

Labeled the "tercera edicion", it is the first by Ediciones El Fortín. The first edition was for the Premio del concurso de poesía José Jacinto Milanés in 1986; it was reprinted by Ediciones Matanzas as a chapbook in 1997. This is the thirtieth anniversary edition.

OCLC: DEIAI FQG STF

Edition + Condition: Scroll slightly flattened; else near fine.

Publication: Bellamar, Cuba: Ediciones El Fortín, 2016.

Item No: #306239

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