Description:

Premio del Concurso José Jacinto Milanés, de la ciudad de Matanzas, en el año 1997. --P. [1]. Mimeographed reproduction of typescript, drawings, and decorative borders on individual leaves of coarse brown and light brown papers, stapled and glued to wrappers covered in black tissue paper. Wrappers have collages of illustrated colored bond and coarse brown paper cutouts. Front wrapper depicts a hand holding lengths of gold emroidery floss which appear to pass through a hole at the top of a bird cage holding a human heart. The author's name is on a tag that hangs freely from the other end of the gold floss. MSU has copy no. 72. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ... --Colophon. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).