Kay Rosen

A Four Corners Familiar.
Hardback, 128 pages, 22.5 × 16 cm

American artist Kay Rosen leads us offshore with her illustrations for this volume of the following stories, all about the sea:

John Moore: Local Boy Makes Good

Katherine Mansfield: The Voyage

Stephen Crane: The Open Boat

Isabella Bird: The Hawaiian Archipelago, Letter I

John Aaron Rosen: Stranger In The Empty Night

Eileen Myles: Everyday Barf

Kay Rosen has been exploring the possibilities of words as images for over 25 years. She delights in the small shift; the subtle change that subverts meaning and reveals the unexpected.