GERZSO GUNTHER; and PAZ OCTAVIO Palabras Grabadas Graven Wor

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GERZSO, GUNTHER; and PAZ, OCTAVIO. Palabras Grabadas/ Graven Words. Translated by Eliot Weinberger. 10 color etchings by Gerzso, each signed and numbered in pencil, lower margins, illustrating ten prose poems by Paz. 406x457 mm; 16x18 inches (sheets), full margins. Letterpress printed Spanish and English. Folio, original portfolio. Tampa: Limestone Press, 1989

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number 34 of only 50 copies signed by gerzso and paz, from a total edition of 62. "Octavio Paz, with a great poet's concision, characterized Gerzso's work with the epithet: `The icy spark.' For more than three decades Gerzso has held the attention of those who recognize the singular consistency of his paradoxical approach. The smoldering colors, so brilliantly heightened, inexplicably give off a glacial emanation. In his ever unfolding vistas, in which there are inescapable hints of the majesty of the Mexican landscape, there is a light distilled, or rather, invented by the artist to lure the imagination beyond or behind the scenes into uncharted spaces"--Dore Ashton, Comentarios sobre la exposición: Plural en Austin, Plural, Mexico, D.F., December 1975, p. 81.