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Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "As an artist, I am deeply committed to the history and craft of printed images. Printmaking for me is the visual language that I speak. The works you see here are a combination of etchings, woodcuts, and drawings and are often in artist book form. I piece and collage images much as a fabric artist makes a quilt. All the pieces use handmade papers and combine words and images, with the hope that they are clearly emotionally affirmative, even if the imagery is difficult. I love my craft and believe in its ability to translate my experiences into visual form.

"As to the question of what I make and why I make it, I will say that all of the works are a combination of etchings, woodcuts, and are often in artist book form. All use handmade papers and combine words and images, with the hope that they are clearly emotionally affirmative, even if the imagery is difficult. They are figurative, though often ambiguous in terms of gender, race or location. I make them because I love my craft. I keep working because what we make affirms what we hope for in the world. "

Carrying Lydia Madrid
Woodcuts and poem by Terry Schupbach-Gordon
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2021.
Edition of 40.

6 x 8" on Bugra and Saint Armand papers with amate bark slip sheet. Text handset in Bembo and Centaur. Letterpress print. Handsewn binding. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "'Carrying Lydia Madrid' was made to celebrate the life of Lydia Rede Madrid (1949-2020). To say that Lydia Madrid was 'a friend like no other' does not even cover the beauty of this person, or her place in the lives of so many who loved her. Lydia was a printmaker with roots deeply planted in West Texas, and the small town of Redford, where she was born. We were joined by more things than I can list. Our love of prints, puppets and the pursuit of an adventure is just the beginning of my very long list. We found joy in the small and excitement in things as ordinary as the sound of geese above our heads. The poem begins: 'you wrote me postcards for forty years, and today I put them in a box.' That is a true statement. I sorted each one as one would sort memories: collected and rambling, jumbled together and equally cherished.

"The book itself will support the Lydia Rede Madrid Endowed Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of New Mexico, where she taught for so many years. ... you will find in each book an original postcard from the vast collection of cards that Lydia sent us over our forty years of friendship.

"This was a very personal project and a reminder that someone you love is never gone from your heart.
$285

Carrying Lydia Madrid
By Terry Schupbach-Gordon
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2021.
Series of 6 one -of-a-kind books.

11 x 7.5" closed, extends to 29".; 4 panels. Double sided accordion. Woodcuts. Etchings. Letterpress printed text printed in Bembo and Centaur. Bugra and Saint Armand papers. Original postcard from Madrid in slip pocket attached to interior front panel. Signed by the artist.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon, colophon: "This book was made with love to celebrate the life of Lydia Madrid. We, who loved her, knew a friendship like no other. We were joined by a love of prints, puppets and the pursuit of an adventures. We began many a road trip in search of a festival, only to find that the festival was inside us. We found joy in the small and ordinary like the sound of geese. In each book is a postcard from Lydia herself."
$650

Blue Horse
By Mariflo Stephens
With woodcuts by Toby Gordon & Terry Schupbach-Gordon
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2019.
Edition of 46.

6 x 6"; 20 pages including free end pages. Hand typeset in Centaur and Bembo. Printed letterpress on Yatsou and Kitakata papers. Pamphlet binding. Bound in cover papers of St. Armand. Illustrated with woodcuts by Terry Schupbach-Gordon and Toby Gordon. Signed and numbered by the poet.

Colophon: "This book is a collaboration of cousins made to celebrate the stories we tell, and how we tell them. ... One cousin wrote the poem, one cousin set the type, and two cousins cut the blocks." It is also dedicated to one cousin.

MissouriReview.com: "Mariflo Stephens has read from her work on Oprah and the Oxygen network. Her fiction is included in 'Worlds in their Words: Contemporary American Women Writers' and her essays appear in 'The Barbie Chronicles: A Real Doll Turns Forty' and 'Strategies for Successful Writing'. Awarded two grants for fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, she was the first place winner in the Sherwood Anderson Short Story Contest in 2008 and the second place winner in 2012. Her work has been published in 'The Washington Post', 'Iowa Woman', the 'Virginia Quarterly Review', 'The Walden Review', 'Catalyst: A Magazine for Social Change', and 'Zone 3', among other publications. Stephens received her B.S. degree in English from James Madison University in 1973 and her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Virginia in 1989."
$225

Infirm
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Woodcuts by Toby Gordon and Terry Schupbach-Gordon
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2019. Edition of 55.

5.25 x 10"; 14 pages. Typeset in Centaur and Bembo. Letterpress printed. Bound in St. Armand papers with Lakota end sheets. Pamphlet binding. Signed by Toby Gordon and Terry Schupbach-Gordon. Numbered.

Infirm is part of a larger series of prints and books called "Claiming Grace" which address issues of disability, identity, and beauty.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "The poem is a delight and as I quoted in the colophon ... it was printed 'with my own legs a-wobble. ...' Actually, that is a stretch, since I as a wheelchair user while printing on the Vandercook, it is my wheels that are a bit a-wobble reaching to insert the paper, but it made me smile, thinking both of my wobble, and as Gwendolyn says so beautifully, that we are all enough to be beautiful."

Gwendolyn Brooks, Dickinson Electronic Archives: "Somebody wrote to the library and asked that I find books with poems featuring handicapped people for a conference that was going to feature handicapped people. So, I decided I was going to try to write such a poem myself. I have a certain way of feeling about handicapped people. I feel that we're all handicapped to some degree in some dimension, so under the title I wrote 'For handicapped all.'"

www.poetry.foundation: "Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most highly regarded, influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry. She was a much-honored poet, even in her lifetime, with the distinction of being the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress — the first Black woman to hold that position — and poet laureate of the State of Illinois."

Everybody here

is infirm.

Everybody here is infirm.

Oh. Mend me. Mend me. Lord.

$150

Puppets One Ought to Know
An ABECEDARIUM in Three Acts
By Terry Schupbach-Gordon
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2019.
Edition of 55.

4 x 8" closed. Hand typeset in Centaur and Neuland. Printed letterpress on Yatsou, Akatoshi, and Kitakata papers. Accordion fold with three sections. Pamphlet binding. Bound in cover papers of St. Armand. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "This book was made to celebrate puppets and those who make them. The theaters and puppets included are from South Africa, England, Canada, Europe, Brazil, and the US. Many are still rocking the puppet stage today. This project actually began about 40 years ago while I was teaching at Kenyon College. At the time I thought it would be a simple list of historical puppet characters, romping on pages, and taking bows. What I know now is that it is a ride through my own love, passion, and commitment to puppets and their makers.

"Your book includes a 'curtain call' after the colophon with a list of webpages of many of the theaters and puppeteers as well as a loose leaf ERRATA page in order to update the A and the Y puppeteer websites. So, finally after so many years, and so many fits and starts ... here come the puppets!"
$225

Just Like Always
By Robert P. Moyer
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2015. Edition of 50.

10 x 5.75"; 16 pages + 4 fold out leaves. Letterpress printed using Tahoma 10 point typeface on Kitakata and Nideggen papers. Woodcuts by Terry Schupbach-Gordon. Bound in St-Armand paper covers. Japanese stab binding. Signed by writer and artist. Numbered.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "I have known Bob for many years, sharing as we do a love of all things theater, puppetry, storytelling, and of course, a love of our time spent at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio many years ago. Over coffee and conversation while planning our 7th grade Haiku and handmade book extravaganza, we decided that we should ourselves collaborate on a project, and so we did. The book was printed on various handmade papers with covers from St. Armand paper mill in Montreal. It was bound by many hands some also holding many cups of coffee around a table here in Tobaccoville, NC."

Robert Moyer: "From the thousands of books I read as a child, to the dozens of folk tales I have performed as a storyteller and director for over a million people, my life has been blessed with stories. From my teachers, Viola Spolin (author of IMPROVISATION FOR THE THEATER), and Paul Sills(creator of Story Theater), I learned to love stories, learned to shape stories, learned to share stories collaboratively. Now, with Terry Schupbach-Gordon, I have shaped and shared collaboratively for the very first time a story of my own, not a folktale."
$95
$35 broadside

Banished Thoughts
By Grace Winn Ellis
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2012. Edition of 65.

8 x 9"; 2 pages. Woodcuts printed on Yatsou, Kitakata, and Japanese etching papers. Type is Trajan Pro Bold. Sewn gatefold binding with covers of Brazilian banana paper. Numbered. Signed by artist and poet.

Colophon: "The poem was written by Grace Winn Ellis who corralled these words after a walk at Tanglewood Park. The woodcut is by Terry Schupbach-Gordon who is familiar also with bats, belfries, and distraction. "

Grace Ellis recently started a blog, May 2012. Banished Thoughts was one of her first entries: "After years of quietly hoarding my opinions on the inner life, the public arena, books, and theater, I am sharing them with the wider world. I hope you will find something here that speaks to you.

"Here’s a brief word from the fluttering thoughts that I am releasing into the world:..."

As I walk through my days,
Words collide in my head
Forming chains of language.
What happens when I don’t write them down? ...

$ 65 artist book
$ 35 broadside

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
By Francis William Bourdillon
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2010. Edition of 30.

9 x 6"; 12 pages. Woodcuts and handset type on handmade papers. Illustration pages tipped on handmade papers. Illustrations by Terry Schupbach-Gordon. Sewn binding. Illustrated paper title label tipped on front cover.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "This very sad poem was written by Francis William Bourdillon (1852 -1921). ... This sad poem actually made me quite happy because I found a use for several pieces of hand printed papers that I've had for many years. I had almost given up hoping to find a use for them, but now, my reputation as a pack rat has been justified!"

     The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one;
     Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun.
     The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one;
     Yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

$110

Animalia
By R.W. Rhodes
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2009. Edition of 80.

12.5 x 10.25"; 36 pages. Woodcuts handprinted on Hiromi Yugen paper and Zimbabwe screenprint. Printed using American Unical type. Handbound using Japanese stab binding with waxed linen thread.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "This is a book of sonnets on various creatures of earth, sea, and sky by Royal W. Rhodes, poet and professor of Religious Studies at Kenyon College … with woodcuts by me. It was a joyous collaboration by two old friends and long time collaborators."
$95

The Garden Series
By Terry Schupbach-Gordon
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2009. Series of 8 , each unique .

12 x 6.5"; 4 pages. Woodcuts/intaglio printed and collaged on a variety of papers. Bound on sewing machine with cloth.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "This book and its seven other 'sister' books were made to tell about what I learn in the garden. I am an avid gardener and lover of all movements beneath the ground. I have successes and failures, and most often, leave the garden uplifted and renewed. I love the poetry of Theodore Roethke, and these books are dedicated to his memory and his words, and to what he also learned in the garden. "
$275 (Last Copy)

A Constellation of Collective Nouns
By Toby Gordon, Terry Schupbach-Gordon and R. W. Rhodes
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2020.
Edition of 50.

4.5" x 6.25 ". Pamphlet bound in covers of St. Armand papers. Interior sheets Kitakata to Akatoshi to Iyo glazed, and more St. Armand in various colors. Numbered. Signed by Rhodes and Schupbach-Gordon.

Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press: "'A Constellation of Collective Nouns' is a book of poems by our friend Roy Rhodes based on the collective names of animals that we discovered while writing our daily letters to our granddaughter."

Colophon: "What did we do during the pandemic of 2020? Some wrote poems, some milled wood, some set type and some cut wood. All knew that HOPE, LOVE, and ART would bring us together again. And what about the possums in the middle of this book? In communion, they become a PASSEL. This book was made with love at Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press by Toby Gordon, Terry Schupbach-Gordon and R. W. Rhodes."

A ROMP OF OTTERS
The name for collectives of Otter
Runs free as ink on a blotter.
No reasons prevented
When such nouns were invented
To not stomp on such as we oughter.

(SOLD/Out of Print)

Everyone Sang
By Siegfried Sassoon
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2009. Edition of 35.

9 x 8"; 20 pages. Woodcuts and handprinted type on Japanese papers, including Yugen and Kitakata. Type: Lithos Pro Light. Japanese stab binding with waxed linen thread. Illustrations by Terry Schupbach-Gordon.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967) is best known as a poet of World War One. He wrote this poem in celebration of the armistice, just before he learned of the death of his friend, Wilfred Owen. This book was made in hopes that the beauty of these words will, like the singing, 'never be done.'"
(SOLD/Out of Print)
broadside (SOLD)

In Our Sleep
By Aeschylus
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2009. One-of-a-kind.

13.75 x 10"; 8 pages including front and back covers. Collaged woodcuts (with a small bit of etching) and handset type on various handmade papers. Illustrations by Terry Schupbach-Gordon. Sewn binding with machine stitching and cloth.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "[In Our Sleep] is a collage of woodcuts with some smattering of intaglio, and handset type. It was made in book form following a series of etchings using the ancient lines from Aeschylus. I had ended a difficult year...which included the death of my father, and was struggling to find words that expressed the moment that grief gave way to acceptance. I believed that perhaps if I etched the words of Aeschylus in copper or set it in type, perhaps my heart would follow. Indeed, it did. For me, making this book, and the prints that preceded it, was a little like planting bulbs in winter, believing that, even as we were surrounded by cold, in time we would enjoy their beauty and warmth."

In our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of god. — Aeschylus (Agamemnon, 179-183)
(SOLD)

Thoughts
By Terry Schupbach-Gordon
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2012. One-of-a-Kind.

7.25 x 5"; 2 pages. Intaglio, woodcuts and collage on handmade papers. Stab sewn binding.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "Thoughts is truly that...some thoughts, while having some rare quiet moments to reflect, and a studio full of bits and pieces of prints waiting to become something more significant than they were as bits and pieces!"

(SOLD)

What Lies Beyond
By Hypatia of Alexandria
Tobaccoville, North Carolina: Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, 2012. One-of-a-Kind.

7.25 x 5"; 4 pages. Intaglio, woodcuts and collage on handmade papers. Sewn binding with fabric and thread. Book consists of three paper-covered panels producing 4 internal pages, title on front panel, signature and date on back panel.

Terry Schupbach-Gordon: "Hypatia of Alexandria, a woman mathematician and philosopher born around 350 AD with a most compelling life and sad death, whose many moving words seem so full of relevance today."

Life is an unfoldment
and the further we travel, the more truth we can
comprehend ...

(SOLD)