The Titles of Artist’s Proof Editions
We make books for the iPad and Mac. We make works on paper. We build video poems.
Artist’s Proof Editions
Our publishing program is small and selective.
We encourage slow literature, word-works
formed over time, with deliberation and intention.
Our work
We work in print and in pixels.
The Kalifornsky Project
Peter Kalifornsky was the first writer of his Dena’ina Athabaskan language. Katherine McNamara was his secretary. She is bringing their joint work to the iPad and Mac.
The Archipelago Archives
Archipelago, a quarterly journal, appeared on the Web from 1997 to 2007.
Our portfolio
Books, video poems, works on paper.
“While swimming in Rangeley Lake in Maine one distant autumn”
Performed by Katherine Vaz and Isabel Pavão. Art by Isabel Pavão. …
Yuri Gagarin Was A Great Russian Poet
“Yuri Gagarin Was A Great Russian Poet,” by Inna Kabysh. Read in translation by Katherine E. Young. Sound design by Forrest Marquisee. Produced by Katherine McNamara.
(Untitled) This is life, the summer house
(“This is life, the summerhouse”), by Inna Kabysh. Read by Natalia Romanova. Sound design by Forrest Marquisee. Produced by Katherine McNamara.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Night
“Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Night,” read by the poet, Robert Schultz. Photographs by Rob McNamara. Sound design and editing by Forrest Marquisee. Directed and produced by Katherine McNamara.
Ancestral Altar No. 7
“Ancestral Altar No. 7,” a video poem. Robert Schultz, poem. Binh Danh, image. Katherine McNamara, producer.
We enter the Paleolithic.
We enter the Paleolithic, at the dawn of art-making. . . . The trailer for Caveboy, A Poem.
Endnotes
The Editor’s post.
Orphans and Strangers
A manuscript of nonfiction by Katherine McNamara
The Heart, Drowning
I’m pleased to announce our publication The Heart Is A Drowning Object, an artists book, a collaboration between three women who with their art explore the workings of grief on a woman’s body in the face of possible loss, her descent into profound solitude, her unexpected emergence into joy.
A New Title in the Kalifornsky Project
From the Believing Time, When They Tested for the Truth is now available on Apple Books. It contains Peter Kalifornsky’s stories of marvels: the great invisible powers and the moral—sometime mortal—tests the old Dena’ina underwent to prove to themselves whether their beliefs were true.
The Kalifornsky Project
“Long time ago the Dena’ina did not have songs and stories. Then came the time …