Designer: Ellie Ga

Artist Book | $20 ($15 direct from UDP), 3 x 5 in.
ISBN 978-1-933254-24-1
Distribution: SPD

Edition of 500. 

In this collectable edition of six accordion-fold postcard-style books, Craig Foltz's poems traverse the cultural landscape of the United States. The poems are accompanied by a photograph of each state's sky– as diverse as the states which make up this giant country. The photographs were contributed by 51 amateur and professional photographers from around the country. The pages are perforated so that the poems can be sent, like balloons, through the mail.

Contributing photographers: Alice Arnold, Meredyth Sparks, Jade Deskow, Ariana Smart Truman, Marie Kazalia, Florence Neal, Sabra Cox, Chris Hampton, David Gatten & Jen Hofer, Simona Schneider, Tina Burton, Shelton Walsmith, Christa Holka, Mike Mahaffie, Tod Seelie, Jon Ciliberto, Lyn Lifshin, Willie Baronet, Rabekah Travis, Courtney Fischer, Martin Bland, Justin Simonsen, Lara Khalil, Karen Lillis, Thomas Ciufo, Katherine McDowell, Elizabeth Willis, Barbara Henning, Paul Yoo, Kristina Del Pino, Jim Simandl, Renae Morehead, Robert Dunn, Tracy Lee Carroll, Ryn Gargulinski, Stephen Mead, Jerilyn Myran, Paul Metres, David McConeghy, Hayley Barker, Jared Zimmerman, Shara Shisheboran-Frame, Justin Ulmer, Ellie Ga, Shannon Shaper, Julia Clapp, David Lee, Jennifer Stahl, Robert Matson, Marion Wrenn, Willie Gillespie. 

Craig Foltz's work has been or will be in Denver Quarterly, Alaskan Quarterly Review, 580 Split, and Fiction International. He has released two on the now somewhat hard to spot Loudmouth Collective. This is his first book of poetry.

Ellie Ga's projects explore the limits of photographic documentation and span a variety of medium, often incorporating her exploratory writing and culminating in performative lectures, videos and installations. After an artist's residency in the archives of the Explorers Club in New York, she spent the winter of 2007-2008 as the artist-in-residence aboard the Tara, a scientific expedition in the Arctic Ocean. Her work from the expedition has been exhibited recently at Galerie du Jour, Paris, Subject Index at the Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden and Storyteller at Projekt 0047 in Oslo, Norway. She has performed The Fortunetellers at Museo D'Arte Contemporaneo, Palermo, Sicily and in New York City at MOMA/PS1 Contemporary Art and for the Edifying series at The Bruce High Quality Foundation University. Her artist's books are in the collection of MOMA, NYPL and Yale University.  Ellie Ga is currently living in Brooklyn.