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Portraits

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Part of: Untimely Books
Fiscal Host: Cosmos Co-op

Funding the printing costs for Maía's beautiful new poetry book

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Contribute to the printing costs for Maía's book. We would like to print this book locally using recyled paper and eco-friendly inks. Maía is donat... Read more

$633.34 USD of $1,500 USD raised (42%)

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Sharon and Ya...

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$250 USD

Richard Andrews

$100 USD

Marco V Morelli

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$50 USD

Kayla

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$50 USD

Christian McEwen

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$50 USD

Mary Thaler

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$40 USD

Douglas Duff

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$35 USD

Brian C George

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$25 USD

Michael Siepmann

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$25 USD

Cynthia Anderson

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Geoffreyjen E...

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Great-Uncle E...

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About

Please CONTRIBUTE to the printing costs for Portraits, by Maía. We are aiming to raise $1,500 USD to cover the cost of having 250 copies of the book printed locally (in Longmont, Colorado) on beautiful, recycled paper, as well as shipped to contributors of $25 or more. Maía is generously donating all the proceeds from the sale of the book to Cosmos Co-op and our imprint Untimely Books. We plan to offer the book as a gift option for future contributors to our crowdfunding campaign this fall (2023).

If you prefer to send a check, please make it out to "Cosmos Cooperative" and mail to PO Box 3 / Longmont, CO 80502 (USA). We can also accept contributions via PayPal.

About the Book

Portraits is a group of “poem-paintings” of human and more-than-human subjects whose lives and ways have inspired the poet. This volume includes homages to James Baldwin, Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, Rachel Carson, Barry Lopez, Vincent van Gogh, and other humans, as well as sea sparrows, parrots, mockingbirds, and starling kin… mother ocean, old-man river, spruce groves and kelp… comb jellies, grey gulls, anemones, green crabs, whelks and periwinkles. Maía’s intimate portraits show us how we can see these people and beings who belong to our world in a poetic new light.

Contents

Finished, Baby (James Baldwin)
Kentucky Woods (Thomas Merton)
Mockingbird Night (Four-Hundred Tongues/Western Mockingbird)
Speaking to the Mountain (Denise Levertov)
Captive (Parrot)
The Grey Zone (Irina Ratushinskaya)
Echo (Rachel Carson)
Horizon (Barry Lopez)
Hermes, Old Man (Will Inman)
At One With Everything (Little Brown Bat)
Mirrors of Agnes (Agnes Varda)
Muse of One-Breasted Women (Deena Metzger)
The Natural Selection of Desire (Black-chinned Hummingbird) 
F i r e (Vincent van Gogh)   

Portraits official page: https://untimelybooks.com/book/portraits/

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Credit from Douglas Duff to Portraits •

+$35.00USD
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Credit from Christian McEwen to Portraits •

+$50.00USD
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+$25.00USD
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Today’s balance

$727.53 USD

Total raised

$727.53 USD

Total disbursed

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Estimated annual budget

$35.00 USD