Lesley Dill, (born 1950)

The Poetic Body (4 works)

The Poetic Body (4 works), 1992
4 lithographs in colors with letterpress, thread on Japanese paper, collaged onto handmade Richard de Bas paper, each signed in pencil, dated and numbered PP1 (a printer's proofs aside from the edition of 20), each with the blindstamp of the publisher/printer, Solo Press, New York, each the full sheet. 3 framed, 1 unframed. (4 works)
each sheet: 18 x 13 1/4in (45.7 x 33.6cm)

Poem Gloves
Poem Dress of Circulation
Poem Ears
Poem Eyes

...I think of words and especially the poems of Emily Dickinson (for their embodiment of psychological states of despair and euphoria) as a kind of spiritual armor, an intervening skin between ourselves and the world. Lesley Dill.