Chard deNiord’s Latest Project
Bestiary, a collaborative book project portraying the integrity of animals’ wildness, beauty, and beatitude, is published by Bridge Press in a limited edition of 500 copies signed by the poet and artist, 2022, with poems by Chard deNiord, former Poet Laureate of the State of Vermont, prints by Brian D. Cohen, a noted printmaker, and a foreword Carolyn Forché, poet and essayist.
Printmaker Brian D. Cohen and poet Chard deNiord have maintained an ongoing dialogue about animals since their first collaboration on the theme in the 1995 artist’s book What the Animals Teach Us. Animals have never ceased calling to artists and poets in silent and strange languages that have beckoned them to listen, observe and wonder. To Cohen and deNiord, animals offer “tokens of ourselves” (Walt Whitman, Song of Myself) as they continue to inspire and surprise. Bestiary pairs over thirty poems and prints of a range of animals in their natural environments. Cohen and deNiord have sought to capture the integrity of our subjects’ wildness, beauty, and beatitude, with the awareness that every creature in its unique, inimitable way is more compelling, mysterious, and ephemeral than they had imagined.
Carolyn Forché has written an introduction to the book in which she places Bestiary in historical, mythological, moral, and scientific context, and exhorts readers to behold and honor these animate wonders of the world with their full awareness and open hearts.
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