Cascadia
Engravings by Richard Wagener
Poetry by Christopher Herold
Essay by William Dietrich
Standard Edition- Out of print
Deluxe Edition- Out of Print
Engraver’s Edition- Out of Print
CASCADIA, a contemplative exploration and celebration of wild places in the Pacific Northwest. In this homage to natural grace and wonder a master wood engraver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and an acclaimed haiku poet weave a rich and insightful tapestry of old-growth forests and uncertain futures.
This book is a remembrance of what was lost, an appreciation of what is left, and a celebration of what could be. Forests are not eternal. For all their solemn stillness, they constantly change, evolve, die, and regrow. But they are persistent, and they always strive to return to an intricacy that is both evocative and instructive.
Award-winning co-publisher and wood engraver Richard Wagener produced twenty-six remarkable boxwood engravings for this edition. They reflect, through his care and meticulous detail, his boundless passion for the natural world. All the engravings were printed by hand on his Vandercook press, along with some of the text, and over half the engravings are on handmade Japanese Bichhu and Yamagampi paper.
Author William Dietrich wrote “The Lost Forest” for this edition, a meditation delving into forest realms past, present and future. In crisp and lyric prose he portrays for the reader the essence of what is so special about these sacred places, and what is truly at stake in preserving them.
Poet Christopher Herold contributed thirty haiku poems, and three delightful haibun, almost all of which are unpublished. Through these poems he shares his personal experience of wildness, and his reverence for such essential and inspiring worlds.
Letterpress printer Patrick Reagh has cast the lead type for the edition on one of his many Monototype casting machines, and printed all the text on the handmade St. Armand paper.
SEVENTY copies are published at eighty-two pages, and measure 7 1/4” x 14 3/4.” Of the seventy copies published thirty are slipcased and numbered, twenty-six copies are deluxe and lettered, ten copies of the Engraver’s Edition are noted as such, and six copies are reserved for contributors. All copies are signed by the artist, author and poet
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