Animals and People. The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself by [Knight Library Press] Rogers, Pattiann; Margot Voorhies Thompson (illustrator) - 2002

Knight Library Press / University of Oregon, 2002. Flexible covers. Fine in fine box. Margot Voorhies Thompson. Margot Voorhies Thompson. Flexible covers. Number 36 of 100 copies. There were 10 additional lettered copies for participants. Signed by the artist and author. A haunting essay by Pattiann Rogers about the relationship between animals and people. She describes both our love and adoration of animals but also our exploitation and cruelty: "Some of us like to sculpt them and make statues and carvings of them ... Some of us like to go out and catch them and kill them and eat them." Pattiann has won numerous awards for her poetry including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lannan Award for Poetry. Bound in flexible boards with black morocco spine and red paste paper covered boards. Features four etchings by Margot Voorhies Thompson printed on Mulberry paper. Includes a CD of the author reading her work. Printed on Heinemule Heine in handset Bembo for the body text. Housed in a red cloth clamshell box. Unpaginated. Fine in fine box. PRI/033011.