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Yoko Tawada, Stephan Köhler, and others

A Poem for a Book

1995

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A Poem for a Book

1995

Physical Qualities Unbound volume with letterpress text and photographs on handmade Japan paper, Book: 334 x 235 x 21 mm. (13 1/8 x 9 1/4 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Brenda Edelson
Object Number 2011.99
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2011; Brenda Edelson, Santa Fe; purchased from the publisher at Art Basel, 1996
Julian Lucas, "The Novelist Yoko Tawada Conjures a World Between Languages," The New Yorker, February 21, 2022. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/28/the-novelist-yoko-tawada-conjures-a-world-between-languages

Inscribed: on colophon, lower center in black ink: "20 / Stephan Kohler Clemens-Tobias Lange / Yoko Tawada (in Japanese characters)"

Author

Yoko Tawada

1959–2000

Japanese, born 1960
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Artist

Stephan Köhler

1958–2000

German, born 1959
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Printer/Publisher

Clemens-Tobias Lange

1959–2000

German, born 1960
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