The Blind Man's House at the Edge of a Cliff

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Full view of “The Blind Man’s House at the Edge of a Cliff.”

The Minnesota Center for Book Arts printed this broadside for the occasion of a reading given by Denise Levertov in May 1989. Behind the text, we can see a delicate illustration of one of the poem’s core images: the “nest on the swaying/tip of the branch.”

Denise Levertov. “The Blind Man’s House at the Edge of a Cliff.” Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1989.

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Detail of the poem’s title, printed in black ink over a light brown illustration.

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Detail of the colophon.