Product Description
Piero Heliczer published You Could Hear the Snow Dripping and Falling into the Deers Mouth through his Dead Language imprint in 1958, when he lived in Paris. This beautiful letter press book (heavy yellow watermarked wraps with orange frottage on front cover, oatmeal colored paper) consists of six poems over 21 pages that are preceded by an ironic “avant propos”—a friendly note from Robert Graves admitting his inability to understand Heliczer’s poetry—and followed on the last page with a contact black and white print, by Beat Hotel photographer Harold Chapman, of Heliczer shirtless at his printing press. The six poems are “fuga xiii,” “ornithology for love cyclops,” “england,” “english girls,” “paris a scenario for a silent movie,” and “america.” This may be Heliczer’s first book, though another book, Girl Body, is listed inside the back cover as also available from Dead Language.
