American Crow. Report from Quarantine by Schanilec, Gaylord - 2021

[Stockholm, Wisconsin & Saint Paul, Minnesota]: Midnight Paper Sales, 2021. Edition limited to "100 possible copies" (in fact, only 88 were made, each numbered and signed by Schanilec), oblong 4to, being a series of 7 unbound oblong, frenchfold bifolia, each 9" x 12", 2 of them folding color wood engravings (each 18" x 24"), 1 with a tipped-in printed leaf within; another full-page color wood engraving, and wood engraved initials, printed in red, blue, black and orange throughout, the whole in a custom folding black chitsu case by Studio Alcyon, lined with red cloth and incorporating inside the back cover an enclosed redux title leaf. The text and illustrations are a poignant and pointed menagerie of Schanilec's poetry, political satire, historiography, the tragic death of George Floyd and millions more of Covid-19. Special appearances by Amanda Gorman, John B. McLemore, and the U.S. Constitution. Surely, even at this early date, a masterwork emanating from the reign of Donald Trump and the global pandemic.