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Kim Keever, Pablo Neruda, and others

20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair

1989

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20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair

1989

Physical Qualities Bound volume with poems and 25 color linoleum cuts, Book: 443 x 569 x 18 mm. (17 7/16 x 22 3/8 x 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Ryda Hecht Levi Collection of Illustrated Books, Gift under the Will of Ryda H. Levi
Object Number 2009.235
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2009; Ryda H. Levi, Baltimore; purchased from Brenda Edelson

Inscribed: Signed by artist in graphite on colophon

Artist

Kim Keever

American, born 1950

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Poet

Pablo Neruda

Chilean, 1904-1973

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