| Title | Open Sky |
| Artist / Creator | Allison Dubinsky and Clare Carpenter |
| Press Name | Tiger Food Press |
| Place of Publication | Portland, Oregon |
| Publication Date | 2010 |
| Subject | Poetry |
| Author of Text | Allison Dubinsky |
| Contributors | Clare Carpenter |
| Book Binder | Clare Carpenter |
| Process / Technique | Letterpress |
| Number of Images | 1 |
| Structure / Binding | Pamphlet stitch, gate fold book |
| Medium / Materials | Letterpress-printed using handset type on French Paper |
| Paper Stock | French |
| Typography | Bembo 11/12 pt. monotype, Bernhard Gothic 10 pt. foundry type, Wood sans-serif type |
| Number of Pages | 4 |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 4.75 x 4.75 inches (closed), 4.74 x 19 inches (open) |
| Edition Size | Edition of 77 |
| Signed & Numbered | Yes |
I wrote this poem in the summer of 2004, while I was living on Southeast Belmont Street in Portland, Oregon. I had taken a taxidermy workshop earlier that year, and a friend suggested I write about the experience (thank you, H.), so I did. Eventually I realized I wanted the poem to exist as its own object, and this year my friend Clare Carpenter helped me make it into this book. Clare is a bookmaker, letterpress printer, and fine artist who runs Tiger Food Press out of her studio in Portland’s St. Johns neighborhood. We designed the book together, and Clare and I printed it on her Vandercook proof press. The text was hand-set in 11-point Bembo, and each book was bound by hand. —Allison Dubinsky
Artist Bio
Clare Carpenter is the proprietor of Tiger Food Press in the neighborhood of St. Johns, located smack-dab between the Willamette and Columbia Rivers in Portland, Oregon. Her work is influenced by place and how our landscape is imbued with personal histories. Primarily a letterpress printer, her work blends writing, traditional and contemporary print methods, and humor. She is an Oregonian, and has lived and worked in Portland since 1997. Allison Dubinsky lives in Portland, Oregon. She earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon, where she received the Miriam McFall Starlin Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Hubbub, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, as well as a few other places.