Friday, January 07, 2011

Words of Power from qarrtsiluni

Go check this out--Harvey has two drawings, one of which is the cover image, and I have a poem inside. I love this issue and am so grateful to Beth and Dave for remembering and honoring Harvey in this way.

The issue is beautiful and well worth ordering.


We’re pleased to announce the publication of the print edition of our Words of Power issue, which appeared online in Fall 2009, with qarrtsiluni’s managing editors, Dave Bonta and Beth Adams, at the helm. This edition is dedicated to the memory of Harvey Parker, a contributor to the issue who died suddenly last summer. It was designed and published by Phoenicia Publishing in Montreal, has a full-color cover, 126 pages, and is available for $14.25 from the online store or from Amazon.

Words of Power is a magic box filled with curses and spells, charms and prayers, incantations, imprecations, castigations, oaths and legal instruments, mantras and scripture — and a collection of remarkable images inspired by the theme.

Be sure to visit our publishing partner’s new website, browse their catalogue and read their news blog. The listing for Words of Power urges customers to “Please consider ordering from our online store: almost twice as much of your purchase goes toward supporting the authors and independent publishing, and foreign shipping rates tend to be favorable. We’re happy to offer sales through Amazon for your convenience too.”

2 comments:

Marylinn Kelly said...

I will go back to the publication site, their podcast about ATCs...which I know from rubber stamping...were these images of Harvey's carved? How interesting that he chose this format.

Pamela Johnson Parker said...

They are all pen and ink. Harvey did a lot of carved clay work and even more rubber stamp work, but his primary media were sculpture (clay or bronze) and pen and ink (where he was a genius). Lately he'd been doing a lot of silhouette work/cut paper imagery. Not like Kara Walker in size but like Kara Walker in awesomeness. His Mark Twain silhouettes were chosen by the Twain Museum, but he died before he could, as he put it, paper carve them.