First Edition. A handmade artists' book interpretation of Amelia Vento Pichardo de Tápanes' 1933 collection of poems by the late, great Cuban book artist Rolando Estévez, published in an edition of 36 copies. The text is color photocopies of individual pages from an original copy of De mi jardín interior.....

75 pages. 6 by 10-3/4 inches. One of 35 copies. Colección Puente de la Plaza. Poems in Spanish and English translation, selected by Behar, who notes that this is the first anthology of Cuban Jewish writers to be published in Cuba. The covers of the book form a single design.....

A challenging Cuban artist's book inspired by poems from a feminist writer from Matanzas. The cover includes a naked female doll, described on the colophon as a socialist Barbie made in China ("una barbie socialista realizada en China"). The poems, in Spanish and English translation, address sexuality and menstruation, with.....

A complex book-object designed by Estévez and Laura Ruiz Montes in tribute to the singer Edith Piaf. The text is a long poem Estévez in Spanish and French translation. The poem is digitally printed on many sheets assembled into two long, side-by-side fold-outs affixed to facing pages of the book.....

Four-panel accordion structure with two fold-out illustrated pergaminos. Folder, 5-1/2 by 14-3/4 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Itinerante. A book published to celebrate the 320th anniversary of the founding of Matanzas with historical text and photographs emphasizing Cuba's bridges. A bilingual edition, with text in Spanish and English.....

173 pages. 7-1/2 by 9-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. An anthology of three books of poems by a Havana poet, photocopied on white paper. Designed and illustrated by Marialva Ríos. Prologue by Roberto Manzano. The cover is assembled from pieces of corrugated paper mounted with collaged.....

49 pages plus index and colophon leaves. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Edition of 200 numbered copies. Colección del Estero series. Stapled pages glued into stiff wrappers that fold around the spine and fore-edge to meet in the middle of the front cover. The cover includes a collaged heart design that.....

62 pages. 7-1/2 by 7 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. A collection of poems photocopied on white paper from the text handwritten by Rolando Estévez, who also designed and illustrated the book. The illustrations include a large handcolored horizontal panorama, collages, and small original drawings on the.....

11 pages. 6-1/2 by 8-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. A poem, designed by Vicente Enríquez Landín, with a particularly effective portrait of the composer pasted onto the front cover. OCLC: BNCJM CRU CSL CUI CUZ DEIAI DLC DRB EEM FHM FQG FUG GZN IND IQU.....

4 pages (a single, folded sheet) in an envelope. 4 by 5-1/2 inches. The edition size is not stated, but it was perhaps as small as 10 copies. A chapbook with a single short poem, in English and Spanish translation, designed by the author. The poem, titled "The Angel and.....

Poems selected from Al sur de mi garganta, Las sílabas y el tiempo, Desaparece el polvo, Calzada de Tirry 81, and Los huesos alumbrados./ Foreword by Laura Ruiz./ "Edición especial por el cumpleaños 80 de la poetisa."/ Part of a collection of handmade chapbooks, many with cords for hanging (literatura.....

23 leaves plus covers. 9-1/4 by 14-1/4 inches. An edition of 100 copies. One of the outstanding artist's books from Cuadernos Papiro. Poems, printed letterpress on various types of handmade paper, including leaves of recycled papers and papers dyed with tobacco. The text is interleaved with multimedia illustrations by Javier E. Díaz.....

16 leaves plus covers. 9 by 14-1/2 inches. Limited to 75 copies. Poems, printed letterpress on handmade paper, illustrated with five woodcuts by the author, a Cuban artist and poet. The binding is a three-hole exposed stitch with ribbon and what might be a black shoelace. OCLC: DLC IQU FQG FXG LRU.....