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Drink a Cup of Loneliness
Robert Walp, Chestertown, NY
Drink a Cup of Loneliness features 21 poems by David Budbill illustrated
by 14 woodcut prints by Susan Jane Walp. The text is printed letterpress
from hand set Goudy Oldstyle type on Hahnemühle Biblio paper. The
binding is in an Ethiopian style with olive green colored banana paper
boards. Created in 2006 in an edition of 100 copies signed by the poet
and the artist.
Robert Walp began his bookmaking career in the spring of 2000 at Vermont
College in Montpelier, Vermont. He has taken numerous book arts workshops
since then and in 2006 earned an MFA in the book arts from the University
of Alabama, where he received the Raymond F. McClain Book Arts Award in
April 2006. His work can be found in many collections including the University
of Vermont's Bailey Library; the Cerritos Public Library; the Brown University
Rockefeller Library in Providence, Rhode Island; and the Shelburne Museum
in Shelburne, Vermont. He works from his studio in the Adirondacks under
the imprint of Chester Creek Press (http:www.chestercreekpress.com) and
teaches workshops at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue
Mountain Lake, Blue Seed Studio in Saranac Lake, and the Town of Chester
Public Library. He is a member of the Guild of Book Workers and is curator
of the Book Arts Collection at the Town of Chester Public Library.
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