Cancer
by Billy Collins
This broadside is part of the Fragments series and corresponds to the letterpress book Splinter of Light. Each broadside in the series features an image panel, a fragment from a portrait of my father. This poem comes from Billy Collins' book The Apple That Astonished Paris (The University of Arkansas Press, 1998) and has been reprinted with permission by the author. Letterpress printed from metal types and reduction linoleum block on 100% cotton rag paper, handmade by the artist.
35 copies printed
All signed by the author
8 1/2 x 11 inches
$30
detail from Cancer