Kayak Press
(c) 1969
When I was in The Country Bookshop in Plainfield, VT I went directly to their poetry section and in particular, to their boxes of chapbooks. The was among the first to catch my eye. I was familiar with the name "Richard Shelton" and when I looked at the back cover, I KNEW I knew Kayak Press.
It wasn't until I decided to begin writing about my Vermont findings that I realized that this was the first book of Shelton's to be published. It is something of a hybrid, a poetry book with numerous color prints by George Nama. The collaboration makes for a beautiful book, At the time that this book came out Kayak Press was 5 years old. George Hitchcock had indeed wedding the talents of two individuals that simply is stunning to take in. Kayak printed 1,000 copies of this book. I am glad to have gotten just one.
