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"Blandeur" by Tucker Nichols and Kay Ryan
Nichols Ryan Broadside
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Price: $300.00
On Tuesday, it was announced that Kay Ryan was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant. While it wasn't news to us, really (the genius status, that is), it did give us a moment to recall the project we did with her and visual artist Tucker Nichols almost ten years ago. We had always been fond of the tradition of poetry broadsides and wanted to bring together one of our favorite poets and favorite artists. When we talked to Nichols about it, he had said that he had this poem on his refridgerator for years. It seemed a natural combo.
To wit: the broadside. Printed in an edition of 30, this hand colored, hand lettered boradside measures 24" x 10" and is signed by Nichols and Ryan. They are priced at $300.00
We have very limited amounts of these prints left. Once they're gone, they're gone!
The text of the poem reads:
If it please God,
let less happen.
Even out Earth's
rondure, flatten
Eiger, blanden
the Grand Canyon.
Make valleys
slightly higher,
widen fissures
to arable land,
remand your
terrible glaciers
and silence
their calving,
halving or doubling
all geographical features
toward the mean.
Unlean against our hearts.
Withdraw your grandeur
from these parts.
The poem originally appeared in Say Uncle: Poems (Grove Press, 2000), © Kay Ryan 2000.