Renalda Luli

My Pet Book’s afterlife  Reading over my past blog posts, I recognize how wheedled I’ve become by the topic of death. So I’m glad that the topic of this blog is afterlife. The afterlife of my pet book Death Masks. It looks brand new. It helps that the book was only recently made, published in … Read more

Pet Book Blog Post #3 The images on Death Masks are visual representations of the dead subject. They are sketched out and then impressed on the paper. This is a relief process. In the book Death Masks by Stuart Denenberg, and etcher, Leonard Baskin, the illustrations and the text do not cohabit on any single … Read more

Death Masks, Deneberg (1997) There are 21 poems in this book. Each is positioned on the verso, the left side. Some poems are as few as four lines of text grouped into a single column paragraph. There is a huge amount of bottom margin as well as left side. The text is grouped in the … Read more

Death Masks, Deneberg (1997) The book’s cover material is made of leather. It is a creamy color with a hint of pink. Impressed on top center is the title of the book ‘Death Masks” in gold letters contained in a red background. Four golden trims frame the title piece. The cover is three dimensional. I … Read more