Chilean Poet's Artist Book
Lihn y Pompier
Publication: Santiago de Chile: Tallers del Departamento de Estudios Humanisticos, 1978. First Edition.
Notes: An artist's book collaboration between Chilean poet Enrique Lihn and designer Eugenio Dittborn, with Lihn's experimental verse alongside striking graphic elements and photomontages, published in an edition of 600 copies during the Pinochet dictatorship.
The work centers on Lihn's literary alter ego "Gerardo de Pompier," and it emerged from the University of Chile's Department of Humanistic Studies.
[50] pages. 12 by 8-1/2 inches (oblong).
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). Cover edges rubbed, else near fine. A nice copy of a fragile book.
Item No: #364874
Price: $850