The Life Horse.

Monterey, Kentucky:: Larkspur Press,, 2005.. Special Edition of 45. 6.5 x 9.75"; 100 pages. Handset in Garamond type designed by Morris Benton for ATF after the work of Jean Jannon, a master printer in 17th-century Paris. Ratdolt type, designed by Victor Hammer, was used for display. Printed on a hand-fed C & P. Printed on Magnani Velata paper. Handbound by Carolyn Whitesel. Design, composition, and printing by Leslie Shane and Gray Zeitz. Signed by the artist and poet. Numbered. Poetry by Susan Starr Richards accompanied by Richard Wooten's drawings. Prospectus: "The drawings, by Richard H. Wooten, are based on a Chinese jade horse's head from the Han Dynasty, and a cave painting for Lascaux, France, ca. 17,000 - 12,000 B.C. Richard Wooten is a native of Harrison County with an avid interest in ancient art. He now lives in Maine. "Susan Starr Richards's short stories have been anthologized in Prize Stories, The O. Henry Awards, and in New Stories from the South, the Year's Best, and have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and in Thoroughbred Times, as winner of their first National Fiction Prize. Her essays have been published in Ms. Magazine, Essence, New Woman, and anthologized by Oxford University Press and The Odyssey Press. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Kentucky Arts Council Fellowship, and was the 2004 Lecturer in American Literature at Doane College, Nebraska. In 2006, Sarabande press published her story collection, The Hanging in the Foaling Barn, as the third volume in their Woodford Reserve Series in Kentucky Literature. She taught for ten years at the University of Kentucky, and with her husband raised racehorses for thirty years, first in Fayette County, and then on their farms in Harrison and Scott Counties."