By Mary Wehner
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Red Hydra Press, 2009. Edition of 30.
 
This broadside combines a poem by Wisconsin poet, Mary Wehner, a colored lithograph print by Cuban artist, Pollyanna Fernández Fernández, and the printing and typographic design of Steve Miller.
 
Red Hydra Press: "[Broken Shells at Dusk] with evocative words by the Wisconsin poet Mary Wehner, was designed and letterpress-printed in two colors by Steve Miller in both English and Spanish.
 
"After words and titles were printed, the sheets were hand-carried to Havana, Cuba. At Taller Experimental de Gráfica a multi-colored stone lithograph was printed by the artist Pollyanna Fernández Fernández. This striking image partly invades the typography. The sheets were then hand-carried back on the airplane to Alabama. Signed by both author and artist, each copy is marked with the chop of the Taller (the colophon is on the back of the sheet, with signatures on the front). "
 
This isn't ocean, only inlet, narrow waterway
of silt, tangle of willows, slow tempo and wash
from a trolling boat. ...
Esto no es océano, solamente caleta, agosta vía fluvial
de cieno, confusión de sauces, cadenica lenta de olas
de un bote meciéndose a flor del agua. ...