$98 item # 21

                               The Coriolis Effect, Edwidge Danticat, Midnight Paper Sales, 2002.

In 1999 I had the pleasure of working with a poem by Edwidge Danticat for the Hungry Midnight Broadside Series. It was a poem about writing, beautifully crafted and colored, and it contained one word with an accented “e”. I set the poem in Bernhard Gothic, and not having an accented “e” available, I used an ordinary “e”. While signing the edition Danticat, with a black pen, carefully added the accent to all 90 copies. Later, in immediate response to my inquiry, she sent a series of twelve short pieces of prose inspired by lessons in an English-as-a-second-language workbook. One again I was delighted with her work, and I am pleased to present The Coriolis Effect. The text had been hand-set in Walbaum, and I’ve added twelve wooden numerals illuminated in color with engraved wood blocks. The book, signed by Danticat and myself, is bound in boards covered with paper marbled for the edition by Carol Scott.

Edwidge Danticat is the author of three novels: Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Farming of Bones; and Behind the Mountains, as well as a collection of short stories, Kirk? Krak!, and a travelogue, After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States as well as The Beacon Best of 2000. –Gaylord Schanilec

56 pages. 5 x 7 inches. 170 copies.