Woven Angel + Winter Poems from Eagle Pond
Woven Angel + Winter Poems from Eagle Pond
Limited edition rare book of winter poetry with a woven angel
This winter pairing brings together a woven angel from my studio and a rare, hand-sewn book by Donald Hall, Winter Poems from Eagle Pond. Only 300 copies of this book were ever printed, and this offering is available in an edition of 20.
Each angel is stitched from remnants of my handwoven textiles — small saved offcuts from the sculptural coats I make in limited yearly editions. No two are alike. They are assembled slowly, by hand, from cloth that already carries its own history.
The book is bound in its original handmade cover, pressed with red maple leaves from Eagle Pond, and comes with my added design of an antique textile slipcover, made to hold the book and offer it as a thoughtful winter gift.
Hall and his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, sent a letterpress broadside poem each Christmas for fifteen years. In 1999, Wings Press gathered these poems into a small, hand-sewn book printed on linen paper, with covers handmade in Austin, Texas, incorporating leaves gathered by Hall’s grandchildren. Only three hundred copies were numbered, signed, and hand-sewn.
I found this book here in Texas while visiting my own family for Christmas — a quiet coincidence that felt meaningful. Two handmade objects, both shaped by memory and the passing of seasons, seemed naturally connected.
A portion of each sale supports I AM ALS (motor neuron disease), in honour of my mother, and The Kathi Koll Foundation, which aids family caregivers whose devotion often goes unseen.
About Donald Hall
Long considered the “Dean of American Poetry,” Donald Hall (1929–2018) served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007. He authored dozens of books of poetry, essays, memoir, criticism, and children’s literature, and received major awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Frost Medal, and two Guggenheim Fellowships.
A former poetry editor of The Paris Review, Hall shaped generations of American poets. His work is attentive to landscape, time, domestic ritual, and the quiet rhythms of ordinary life. He and his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, lived on Hall’s family farm in rural New Hampshire, in a farmhouse built in 1803 beside Eagle Pond — the landscape at the heart of so much of their writing. Their life together was documented in the Emmy Award–winning PBS film Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon: A Life Together (1993).
What’s Included
- One woven angel, hand-stitched from remnants of my handwoven textiles
- One hand-sewn book, Winter Poems from Eagle Pond by Donald Hall
- Original handmade paper cover with pressed red maple leaves from Eagle Pond
- Antique textile slipcover, designed and sewn in my studio
- Artist wrapping & packaging for the season
- Donation to I AM ALS and The Kathi Koll Foundation with each purchase