Harry and Sandra Reese

Harry and Sandra Liddell Reese have produced prints and poetry books in limited editions at Turkey Press since 1974. The press has received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, and in 1992 the press archive was acquired by the Getty Research Institute. Harry is chair of Department of Art at UC Santa Barbara and directs the book arts program, which he founded in 1985. In 1990 Sandra and Harry created a second imprint, Edition Reese, to produce collaborative limited editions with other artists, including Yoko Ono, Kiki Smith, Joan Tanner, and William Wiley.

On Exhibit

Heart Island and Other Epigrams by James Laughlin
Isla Vista, 1995
Hand-painted cover, letterpress text, wood engravings

"James Laughlin is one of the mythic figures in American publishing. He was the founder of New Directions in 1936. There are 44 poems by Laughlin, accompanied by 24 wood engravings by M.L. Breton from Dictionnaire Infernal, originally published in Paris in 1818. "

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