To Account For a "Working Life" These poems bear the record

These poems bear the record of a state of heightened perception

Catherine Wagner

amongst other things

Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects — love — and make it this powerful

To Account For a "Working Life" These poems bear the recordIan Patterson Published by Face Press in an edition of just 250 copies. Ten poems, risograph printed. Title page in black and aqua blue inks and colophon in metallic gold. Covers individually splash painted in sumi ink and bright blue calligraphy ink, with additional gold ink to the outside. Stitched with brass wire. Collated, bound, and trimmed by hand. Patterson is a Life Fellow of Queens' College Cambridge. The Plenty of Nothing, his elegy for