This minimal letterpress print was made in collaboration with Pavel Büchler. It quotes a line from the sardonic middle section of a brilliant Robert Creeley poem, 'Please'. The line of four non-sentences was used by Ian Hamilton Finlay as the title of his famous little magazine dedicated to concrete poetry in the 1960s, Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.
In the spirit of Creeley’s poem, this poster is, "a poem that tells the story, / which is the story", conceived during pandemic of 2020 as a sign of life that invites readerly projection. The title of the work nods to the closing line of 'Please': "This is a poem for everyone".
Our short-run first edition was printed in whatever quantity we could manage during one day on the proofing press in Büchler's studio.
