Trilove

Although he started writing poetry when he was a high school student in Indianapolis where it saw print only in school publications, he did not become seriously involved until his last year of formal schooling at the University of Edinburgh where the atmosphere was more sympathetic to things literary than plastic. While taking night classes at the Edinburgh College of Art he sets by hand several of his poems, illustrated them with lithographs, and printed them himself on a hand press. Upon his return to America he continued to write for several years in New York until he became so involved in painting that any poetry remaining manifested itself primarily in a graphic concrete form via the paintings themselves. This metamorphosis is clealry depicted in these three love poems, two of which are of the traditional literary variety whereas the third is concrete. It is based on the artist's Aspen LOVE paintings which he did while artist-in-residence at the Aspen Center of Contemporary Art in the summer of 1968. These three comprise this small octavo-size folio designed and edited by Willian Katz in 1969 and was serigraphed on Roemertum Buetten paper in West Germany under the direction of Luitpold Domberger at Edition Domberger, Bonlanden bei Suttgart in an edition of 210 examples, signed and numbered.