Mount Eerie - Night Palace Book
$34.98
Label: P.W. Elverum & Sun
One-time edition of 2,000 copies. 5.5" x 6.5", 52 pages, Smyth sewn, heavy soft cover with letterpressed dust jacket.
In the summer of 2024, this text was cast in hot metal using a linotype machine and printed on the presses of Stumptown Printers & Craft Printing House Clatskanie, Oregon.
The font is Electra, regular and cursive designed by William Addison Dwiggins in 1935.
Night Palace was born from the Joanne Kyger poem of the same name.
Empty Paper Towel Roll and I Spoke With A Fish and Stone Woman Gives Birth To A Child At Night get some of their ideas from Dōgen’s Mountains And Waters Sutra.
Co-Owner Of Trees takes its title from an unfinished novel found in the notebooks of Geneviève Castrée.
Demolition points to the poem Mother Night by Jim Harrison, and to Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin, and quotes the poem After Bamiyan by Gary Snyder.
