Late Prayer

Full view of “Late Prayer,” printed on cream paper with illustrations and a ruby rendered in red foil.

Top detail of “Late Prayer.”

This striking broadside was also designed by Jim Cokas for the annual Tuolumne Meadows Poetry Festival (this one was released in 2013). The broadside’s design evokes the poem’s concrete imagery (the iron bucket, the heart, the nail, the ruby) in spare, elegant lines.

Jane Hirshfield. “Late Prayer.” Newport Beach, California: J. Cokas, 2013.

Colophon and detail of Jane Hirshfield’s signature in pencil.

Late Prayer