The Rosebush; a Memory of Theodore Roethke.

Wagoner, David & Mary Randlett.

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Place Published: Seattle
Publisher: Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers
Date Published: 2007
Edition: Limited Edition
Binding: Poster
Book Id: 41289

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Single-sheet, measures 7 x 17-7/8". Printed letterpress in an edition of 100 copies (of which 85 are for sale) at Springtide Press by Jessica Spring, with an original mounted giclee print , from a photograph by Mary Randlett taken shortly before Roethke's untimely death in 1963 at the age of 55. Signed by both Wagoner and Randlett. // This broadside published by Wessel & Lieberman to coincide with A Contemporary Theatre's premiere of David Wagoner's one-act play, 'First Class', a tribute to his mentor, Theodore Roethke. David Wagoner is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington, and edited 'Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63.' Mary Randlett is well-known for her original photographs of Northwest artists and writers; a monograph of her landscape photography will be published in the Fall, 2007, by the University of Washington Press.

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