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23 Sandy is pleased to present this stunning new edition featuring poems by Michael Dickman and Matthew Dickman, monotypes by Keith Achepohl, printing and design by Sandy Tilcock. This sumptuous collaborative work features ten deeply felt and personal poems, five each, from two highly-regarded twin-brother poets written in memory of their brother Darin Hull, who lost his life to a drug overdose. The poems are paired with velvety black photogravures reproduced from original trace monotypes by Keith Achepohl. The pages are presented as unbound individual tri-fold folios measuring 13.375 x 8.75 inches closed, opening out to 13.375 x 26 inches, all enclosed in an chemise and clamshell box.

This rich new book is a tour de force by long-respected master letterpress printer and bookbinder Sandy Tilcock from Eugene, Oregon. Sandy has designed and printed letterpress books and broadsides featuring writers such as Barry Lopez, Robert Bly, William Stafford and Terry Tempest Williams. Her work has been recognized for its imaginative designs and perfect craftsmanship. Since 1989 lone goose press has published an impressive roster of books and broadsides. Sandy was also the Founding Director of Knight Library Press at the University of Oregon in 1999, and served in that position for seven years while continuing to occasionally publish under her own imprint. Her achievements have brought her great renown in the field of fine press publishing, mostly due to her unique approach to collaborative projects. As she once wrote, “collaboration is an important aspect of the endeavor, with author, artist, and printer working in a spirit of mutual support. With each turn of the crank, new and old, art and idea, individual creativity and shared vision come together freshly on the page.”

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“A Peek Inside the Pressroom of ALL OF HIM.”

Michael Dickman is an American poet born August 20, 1975 in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Field, Tin House, and Narrative Magazine. He received a fellowship from The James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. In 2009, he received an Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. He won the 2010 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is also the coauthor, with his twin brother Matthew Dickman, of the 2012 poetry collection 50 American Plays, published by Copper Canyon Press.

Matthew Dickman born August 20, 1975, Portland, Oregon, is an American poet. He received a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 2001 and has been the recipient of fellowships from The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is the author of three chapbooks, Amigos, Something about a Black Scarf and Wish You Were Here, and two full-length poetry collections. His first book, All-American Poem, was winner of the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by American Poetry Review and distributed by Copper Canyon Press. He was also the winner of the 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for that book, and the inaugural May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His second full collection of poetry, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, was published by Norton in 2012. Matthew Dickman was awarded a Guggenheim in April 2015.

Keith Achepohl is a nationally recognized artist and Professor Emeritus of Art from the University of Iowa who lives in Eugene, Oregon. Achepohl received a B.A. from Knox College, a M.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa, and honorary doctorates from Pacific Lutheran University and Knox College. At the School of Art at the University of Iowa, he was head of the printmaking division and taught undergraduate and graduate courses for many years. Fulbright awards took him to Egypt and Turkey. Achepohl has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. His work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, Spain; the Kobe Art Museum in Kobe, Japan; the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art among many others.

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