A Deep Blue Amen

Size closed:36 x 25 x 5cm or 14¼ x 10 x 2 inches

Year: 2012

Text: Eight Poems by Stuart Kestenbaum

Materials: Handmade flax paper, indigo and walnut dye, pigment, ink. Clamshell is covered with flax paper including: custom calligraphy alphabet paper, pigmented granite, and walnut and indigo dyed paper.

Techniques: Inside pages are letterpress printed from polymer plates on partially indigo dyed flax paper then sewn together and covered with a walnut and indigo cover which has been blind embossed with the title.

Pages: 8 double page spreads plus colophon, title page, endsheets or 24 page turns

Edition size:50 copies

(Jan 2025) Copies available: 23

Clamshell box made by Campbell Logan Bindery. Calligraphy by Jan Owen. Additional binding help received from Karen Konoshita.
Published by Amanda Degener (now called Handmade Paper Editions)
Signed by Stuart Kestenbaum.

Amanda Degener met Jan Owen and Stuart Kestenbaum at Haystack School which is in Maine where Jan and Stuart live. Amanda served on Haystack’s board for nine years and often had the pleasure of listening to Stuart read his poetry. Stuart writes about the little things, and we see the bigger things because of it.