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GAYLORD SCHANILEC
Fine Printer
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Hole in the Donut: Scrape 22

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Hot off the press—Hole in the Donut: Scrape 22—the fruit of a McKnight/AIRIE residency in the Florida Everglades during the summer of 2023. Hole in the Donut: Scrape 22 page.

It's Come to This, by Patricia Hampl

  • It's Come to This
In 1982, while wearing the hat of a “small press illustrator” I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to illustrate a long prose poem by Patricia Hampl, who had recently become famous with the publication of her memoir A Romantic Education (Houghton Mifflin, 1981). The resulting book, Resort (Bookslinger Editions, 1982) was pivotal for me, and I began angling for a manuscript from Patricia I might publish myself. It only took 40 years for one to materialize. It's Come to This page.
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"Man Before a Mirror" a transformative piece of work that came out of a years long McKnight Printmaking Fellowship.

American Crow: Report from Quarantine

  • American Crow: Report from Quarantine
“The text and illustrations are a poignant and pointed menagerie of Schanilec's poetry, political satire, historiography, the tragic death of George Floyd and millions more of Covid-19. Special appearances by Amanda Gorman, John B. McLemore, and the U.S. Constitution.
 
Surely, even at this early date, a masterwork emanating from the reign of Donald Trump and the global pandemic.”

                                             —Robert Rulon-Miller

American Crow page.

Books, signed and numbered prints, and broadsides all available for purchase on this website.

Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers

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The third book in a trilogy documenting one man’s struggle with the reality of growing old. After a quarter century living in the rural midwest he moves to the city where he observes the isolation of urban life and the tenacious existence of the plants, birds, and animals living there—a roster of beings that includes himself. Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers was preceded by A Little Book of Birds (MPS 2017), and Departures (Ninja Press, 2019).
A Little Book of Flowers page.

My Mighty Journey

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A book induced by the 12,000-year-long journey of Saint Anthony Falls, the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi River, from Saint Paul to Minneapolis — a distance all of ten miles. Detail page in progress. Meanwhile, check out the "My Mighty Journey" Tumblr Blog where, in lavish detail, Paul Nylander documents the process he and GS used to create the book. Tumblr Blog.

My Mighty Journey book page.


A Little Book of Birds

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As it turned out my mid-life vessel the “Hungry Mind”(Lac Des Pleurs, 2015) didn't get me to the other side, and A Little Book of Birds led to yet more water. The idea of birds captive within unopened pages was originally intended as a challenge for book collectors—to open the unopened pages—or not. As years passed the birds slowly emerged and their captivity began to mean something else. I thought this book might free the birds. It did not. —GS

A Little Book of Birds page.

 

 

 

 


Body of Black Ash

background photo: Alex Schneideman