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ISBN 0-9733952-5-7
Chapbook edition of 100
$80.00

In the Japanese tradition of the utaniki, or song-diary, Paper Lanterns: 25 Postcards from Asia is a collection of poems and prose meditations based on material that first appeared in Steven Heighton's second book, Foreign Ghosts. Published in a small edition in 1989, Foreign Ghosts has long been unavailable. Paper Lanterns not only revisits and revises some of the best work from that collection, it also includes photographs, by Mary Huggard, that were taken while the couple was in Asia. This chapbook integrates images with poetry and prose into a journal-inspired design, completing an Asian journey that began in Hong Kong almost twenty years ago.

Chapbook edition is limited to 100 copies, signed and numbered by the author. The Japanese tortoise-shell stab binding (kikko toji) has been hand sewn with linen thread. Inner binding secured with twisted strings of paper (koyori) . Printed on Neenah columns 60lb text paper in pistachio with Lokta end papers in red. The cover stock is St. Armand handmade paper in brown turtle, backed with Japanese Yuzen. Letterpress cover handset and printed on a platen press. Chapbook includes six full colour “postcards” with images by Mary Huggard. Chapbook and postcards designed by Dawn Kresan, and typeset in Centaur and CK Olden Days.

Books In Canada Vol. #36.1 (Jan/ Feb 2007)
Quoted from "Pan-Asian Fare" a review of Steven Heighton’s Paper Lanterns by Matthew J. Trafford

"This slender chapbook from Palimpsest Press ... is a foreign delicacy to be savoured, the perfect souvenir to be treasured."