Kind by Gretchen Primack — Poems to Inspire Compassion for Animals
“…color art from three remarkable painters: Dana Ellyn, whose work is also featured on the new cover; Jane O’Hara; and Gus Mueller.”Gretchen Primack, in The Vegan Atlas
On the cover: Disguise
Dana Ellyn · oil on canvas · 36 × 24 in. · 2015
A pink piglet wearing a brown-and-white dog-head hat sits beside a Boston terrier wearing a pink pig-head hat. Both face the viewer against a pale blue wall over a dark floor.
The book’s title, kind, and the word poems are set in the blue above them, with Gretchen Primack’s name and “Foreword by Tim Seibles” on the dark ground below.
- Book
- Kind, poems by Gretchen Primack
- Publisher
- Lantern Publishing & Media, Brooklyn, NY
- Published
- March 2, 2021, hardcover
- Foreword
- Tim Seibles
- Cover painting
- Disguise by Dana Ellyn, oil on canvas, 36 × 24 in., 2015
- Cover design
- Gus Mueller and Nancy Leonard
- Inside
- Five paintings by Dana Ellyn, plus work by Jane O’Hara and Gus Mueller
- ISBN
- 978-1-59056-639-8 (hardcover)
- Earlier edition
- Post Traumatic Press
About the book
Poems about animals and our place among them
Dana Ellyn’s painting Disguise (2015) is on the front cover of Kind, a collection of poems by Gretchen Primack, published in hardcover by Lantern Publishing & Media in 2021. Five more of her paintings are printed inside in color, each set beside a poem: Pattern Chicken, Veal, Piggy, Kitty and Kitten Nuggets.
Kind was first published by Post Traumatic Press. For the Lantern edition, Primack added ten new poems, a foreword by Tim Seibles, and color art by three painters: Dana Ellyn, Jane O’Hara and Gus Mueller.
Kind is the kind of poetry book that makes you think differently about our world and the beings that inhabit it. Primack explores all facets of our lives with other beings—the beauty, the tragedy, and the absurdity that surrounds her existence.Book description, Amazon listing
Photos
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Paintings inside the book
Five paintings by Dana Ellyn, each beside a poem · tap to enlarge
Pattern Chicken
With the poem “Coxcomb” · page 4, opposite the poem on page 5
Veal
With the poem “Love This” · page 13, below the end of the poem
Piggy
With the poem “Big Pig” · page 37, opposite the poem
Kitty
With the poem “Marie” · page 53, opposite the poem
Kitten Nuggets
With the poem “Egg” · page 69, opposite the poem on page 68
On the page
Each painting with its poem, as printed · tap to enlarge
In the back of the book
About the Artists · Index of Artwork
Dana Ellyn is a Washington, DC resident and full-time painter who lives and paints in her downtown studio. She has exhibited around the globe with significant museum showings in St. Petersburg, Russia and Baltimore, MD.About the Artists, Kind (2021)
Press
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