Bowerbox Press is run by Val Lucas, a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. Based just north of Baltimore, MD, Bowerbox Press offers custom printing and design as well as fine prints, greeting cards, bookbinding, and whatever else Val has been up to.
Contact: val(a)bowerbox.com
Currently, the shop consists of:
10×15 Colts Armory Quarto Medium, 1901
8×12 United States Press, 1886 (?)
8×12 OS C&P
Foil Stamper
Plus lots of type, ornaments, some wood type, a corner rounder, and miscellaneous shop equipment. We’re hoping to get it all in one place someday.
Dear Ms. Lucas,
Thank you again for the prints I bought this afternoon. On my walk home, I thought of three other poems you might consider for your “birds” series: “The Windhover,” by Gerard Manly Hopkins would go well with The Raven and The Albatross, given its “The” title, plus its having been written in the 19th century. You’d then have representative bird poems from France, the U.S. and England. A windhover is a falcon. Another possiblity would be Tennyson’s “The Eagle,” which ends quite dramatically. “And like a thunderbolt he falls.”
The third is “Sandpiper” by Elizabeth Bishop–a modern poem but quite a wonderful one. Of course, it’s about a wading bird rather than a flying one.
But already I’m remembering other “bird” poems–Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole and Ted Hughes The Hawk in the Rain and . . . But I’d better stop.
Allow me to wish you and Bowerbox Press continued success.
All good wishes,
Michael Dirda