Kinnikinnick Brand Kickapoo Joy-Juice 2004
Poems by Jonathan Williams. Drawings by John Furnival.
4 by 10 1/2 inches

Meta-Fours (four-word-per-line poems) by Jonathan Williams. Drawings by John Furnival of Kilpeck Church. As the late Guy Davenport wrote, “Jonathan Williams offers us in every poem a lyric line of suave clarity and highly involved verbal harmony. The poem itself finds and articulates a single image or action. This is an art like pole vaulting: the center of gravity is outside the trajectory. Build-up and follow-through are not the poem, though the poem depends upon them; the one is in the poet’s control, the other in yours.” Designed, letterpress printed, copiously adumbrated and bound in a hybrid false accordion, sewn-boards style using handmade paper on the spine and cover from the Oakdale Paper Facility in Iowa. Signed by both the poet and the artist. Edition of 145.