Letter Box: The Geometry of Loss
Written By Rick Black/Visualized By Warren Lehrer
Grief is love with nowhere to go. Sometimes it gets locked up inside for years.
Letter Box: The Geometry of Loss is a unique, exquisite and powerful book that addresses how a person can deal with personal loss, feel the bottomless pain, yet manage to move on.
Written by former New York Times reporter Rick Black, it is the story of a young man’s coming to grips with the unexpected death of his mother from cancer and other traumatic memories from his years as a reporter in the Middle East.
The sparse poetic prose—which consists of only a few words per page—is choreographed for the page by visual literature pioneer Warren Lehrer. His typographic settings give delicate and surprising form to the interior, emotional and metaphorical underpinnings of Black’s words. Together, the writing and visuals create a moving, beautiful, and distinctively cinematic book experience.
Letter Box: The Geometry of Loss is a vehicle for readers of all ages to process their own emotions through a visual and literary odyssey.
Published by The Center for Book Arts & Earsay Books
Hardcover – 6.5” x 6.5” x 200 pages
ISBN 979-8-9897802-3-5
Memoir, Design, Healing Arts.
Available for purchase through Earsay Books
Praise
“This marvel of a book reads itself to you as you turn the pages. It is, in reality, a box of letters that spells “G-R-I-E-F” in a way that is poem, angel’s song, recipe. In Letter Box, art and language dance as you understand that you, too, can put your own letters, words, memories into the box. We have all experienced loss, been stymied by grief. Letter Box opens its arms to you as you place your grief inside.”
Bob Holman, Founder: Bowery Poetry Club, poet, poetry activist and chronicler
“There is something quite profound and generous in Letter Box — a choreography between word, form, silence, image, and geometry — that speaks in ways language alone cannot. I imagine many will find themselves feeling seen, felt, recognized, understood, and thus gently accompanied through its pages, inviting readers into a collective realm of loss and support for their own paths of integration and healing.”
Selma Quist-Møller, Lead Psychologist on Post Traumatic Growth, Reimagine
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