Poetry
48 Pages
ISBN: 1-59766-010-8
Paper / Rare: $200.00

Robert Bly has been a major American literary figure since the sixties. He led the way in bringing the giants of world poetry into the American consciousness, translating Lorca, Neruda, Transtromer, Rilke and Hafez, among others. He wrote poetry that infused lyric language with the vision of the unconscious mind. And he introduced the concept of Iron John into our language and culture.

In celebration of Bly's participation in the seventh annual Get Lit! Literary Festival in the Northwest, Eastern Washington University Press has created a collection of his poems that has never been previously published. To mark the event, EWU Press has published a special limited letterpress edition of his poems, titled The Urge to Travel Long Distances, in addition to the trade edition.

Printed by master printer Inge Bruggeman, of Portland, Oregon, and based on the creation of award-winning book designer Amy Grey, of Moscow, Idaho, the letterpress edition was limited to seventy copies, signed and numbered by the poet.

The cover of this limited edition was printed in black and opaque white ink on blue-gray textured matte cover, with the interior text printed in Scala and Scala Sans in black with illustrations in blue on white. Pages and cover are both folded, with black end papers and a matching Japanese stab binding. Each book is wrapped in transparent vellum tied with a black thread.