The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn

Nancy Kuhl

Hardcover | 12.5 x 21.5 cm | 128 pp

Coracle | 2010 | 9780906630419

In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series in intrinsic yet unexpected ways. ‘I use the portability of the printed sheet, mostly in book form,’ she says, ‘to construct a narrative around the incidental parts of my life.’

Nancy Kuhl, who wrote the text, is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher, and Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Artist, writer, editor, printer, and bookmaker Erica Van Horn (b. 1954, New Hampshire) has a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work now mostly issues through Coracle, a small publishing press based in Ireland, which she directs with Simon Cutts, writer, artist, and editor.