Description:

Mimeographed reproduction of hand-lettered poem and titles, illustrations, and typescript on individual leaves of a variety of brown, sand-colored, and white papers. Stapled and glued to endpapers and tied with cords to brown paper wrappers. Illustrations include mounted pink, yellow, and white decorated-paper cutouts. Collage on front wrapper includes a crescent-moon shaped mirror. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Dibujos: Carlos Miguel Oliva. Diseño: Enrique Ramos --Colophon. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, firmados por su autora .... Para esta edición se utilizaron papeles craft, semicraft, bond, ecológico de la Papelera Cubana de Puentes Grandes, además de papel bond off set, donación de la Universidad de Lérida, España --Colophon. Premio nacional de poesía 'America Bobia' --Front wrapper. LC has copy no. 91. MSU has copy no. 12, and is not tied with cord. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).