Name: "How to be a Poet" - 8″ x 10″ Matted Linocut Print
SKU: 1291
Price: 10.00 USD
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“How to be a Poet” – 8″ x 10″ Matted Linocut Print

Oftentimes, when I’m feeling lowest down on my luck or my patience, I turn to the nearest book of poetry for solace. Of these books, I can always count on Wendell Berry’s to settle my rattled spirit. I created this print, which is an excerpt from Berry’s “How to be a Poet,” to encourage stillness and silence when no book is in reach.

“How to be a Poet” has been hand-drawn, carved, pressed, and colored on smooth unbleached Mulberry paper using a light-fast Naphthol Red and Blue Grey vegetable-oil based ink. Arriving in your mailbox matted and ready to frame or gift, this print measures 8″ x 10″ in total size. May it help ground you when you feel yourself uprooting, and quiet your mind amidst the loudness of the day.

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Title: “How to be a Poet”
Materials: Undyed Mulberry Paper, Ink
Dimensions: 8″ x 10″ matted
Description: Hand-drawn, hand-carved, hand-printed, and hand-colored linocut

Fun Fact: This print was made in honor of one of my favorite poems, Wendell Berry’s How to be a Poet. Interestingly enough, it’s not about how to be a poet so much as it is about how to be a human being. (To remind myself and us):

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Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.