Campbell, Ken: Dominion The book deploys found geometric tools, brought to type height, to suggest the plotting of land by the squaring and quartering of the space on the page, and the boxing of its compass. A progression of poems move from the old world of Europe to the Great Plains of North America, which were secured, divided up, then broken by the plough.
‘DOMINION’, while continuing the pursuit of the idea of the double to be found in previous titles, progresses towards its centre and unravels back to its beginning. In this ‘DOMINION’ configures exile and return. At the start and end of each of the sections of the book, severe rectilinear geometries are disrupted and married to motifs gained from the equilateral triangle and the cross. The resultant rich pages contrast with the wilderness at the core of this work. en., polychrome letterpress printing, woodletter and metal type, map-style wrap-around binding, 94p, 20 x 14.6 inch, Ed. of 30+5, num., sign., London, 2002 Request of availability backnext