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[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday!

We continue with our presentation of Winter Books from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) with Minnesota writer Will Weaver’s Snares, published in 1992 with six wood engravings by fellow Minnesotan Deborah Mae Broad in an edition of 260 copies signed by both the writer and artist. This is the fifth title in the annual commissioned series celebrating winter in the Upper Midwest. Once again, the book was designed by Gaylord Schanilec and printed in Bembo type on Basingwerk and Mohawk Superfine papers with the assistance of Robert Johnson (Melia Press) who was the MCBA Artist-in-Residence at the time, and interns Christine Brown, Spring Harvey, and Carolyn Swiszcz. Our copy is from the standard edition which was bound by Greg Campbell of Campbell-Logan Bindery in Minneapolis.

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[biskamta]

Brandon squints at the man with the walker. "So what's wrong with you?" "Brandon,"his mother says tiredly. The skinny man smiles behind his mask. "Everything, kid. Pretty much everything." "Me,too," Brandon says.

Defect, Will Weaver

[kelseyuum]

Olaf knew that he believed in a great God of some kind. He had trouble with Jesus, but with God there was no question. He ran into God many times during the year: felt of him in the warm field dirt of May; saw his face in the shiny harvest grain; heard his voice among the tops of the Norway pines.

-A Gravestone Made of Wheat by Will Weaver

[theforgottengopher]

"Crowded together, they are a family of strangers. All of them hanging by an iron thread. All of them in this together. All of them falling. By the time they reach the first-floor lobby, David feels the burn of tears in his eyes, feels some insane kind of joy.'

Defect by Will Weaver

[kelseyuum]

... Fiction can sometimes tell the whole story-- truth is not always limited to the facts.

[richardmcbain]

I just realized how few people have ever read "Claws" by Will Weaver

That makes me sad. It's a really good book, I cried the first two times I read it. I really wish I hadn't lost my copy or I could at least find a new one. It's really one of my favorite high school age targeted books, it's the standard I hold all of them too... Damn it. Now I desperately want a new copy of it.