Artist’s Books and Folios

























Title: Exiled
Year: 2024
Text: Exiled, poem by Edna St. Vincent Millet
Prints: Nine etchings, printed in black and silver
Type: Centaur, set and printed by Scott Vile of Ascensius Press
Paper: Magnani Pescia Blue
Edition: Ten folios Lisa Hersey of Antler Editions in Easthampton, Massachusetts 
designed and produced the folio slipcase.
Description: Exiled is a paean to the Maine coast, poet and artist sharing the love and 
longing for Maine that many feel. 

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Title: Pierrot Lunaire
Year: 2007
Text: Pierrot Lunaire, 21 poems by Belgian Symbolist poet Albert Giraud, German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben, English translation by Brian D. Cohen
Prints: 21 etchings printed twice, in intaglio and in relief 
Type: The original French is set in Bembo italic; the German in Gill Sans Light; and the English translation is set in Monotype Bembo; type cast, set, and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry
Paper: Magnani Pescia 
Edition:21 books in an aluminum box decorated by the artist and lined by Sarah Creighton 
Description: A folio from the dark, caustic, and poignant 1912 song cycle Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg. The etchings are printed twice on each page—in intaglio and relief, a visual analogy to the sudden and startling reversals of emotional tone from tenderness to despair in the music. The folio is accompanied by a compact disc recording of a July 2003 performance of the song cycle at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, for which the artist created the images. 

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Title: The Fool’s Journey
Year: 2005
Text: Titles of the major arcana of the traditional tarot deck
Prints: 23 etchings
Type: The title page, colophon, and titles for each card were hand-lettered by Tamara Stoneburner of Gracestone Calligraphics.
Paper: Handmade feather deckle paper from Papéterie St Armand in Montréal
Edition: 18 books, enclosures created by Sarah Creighton 
Description: Modeled on Renaissance cosmography, the book represents the major arcana of the traditional tarot deck, a visual portrayal of a philosophical world-view, each card presenting a universal archetype of human experience and a parallel, symbolic element or quality of the physical world.

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Title: The Bird Book 
Year: 2004
Text: 26 rhyming couplets by Holiday Eames 
Prints: 28 relief etchings hand-colored by the artist and by Sara Kazemi and Amie Walter
Type: 19th C. DeVinne wood and metal type, cast by Ed Rayher of Swamp Press and set and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry and 
Paper: Somerset Book Wove  
Edition: 26 books, bird’s eye maple boards made by Richard Holmquist, engraved by Julie Chen, and bound by Linda Lembke 
Description: An alphabet book modeled after 19th C reading primer for children 

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Title: Winterreise
Year: 2000
Text: Couplets from Winterreise by Wilhelm Müller, translated from the German by Holiday Eames 
Prints: 20 etchings, printed in black and silver 
Type: Walbaum, set and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry
Paper: Magnani Incisioni, interleaved with architect’s vellum 
Edition: 15 books bound by Linda Lembke
Description: A book illuminating a despairing traveler’s journey into the winter landscape. Included with each book is a compact disc recording of the song cycle performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by pianist Jörg Demus. 

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Title: The Zeppelin Book
Year: 1999
Text: Title page      
Prints: Ten etchings 
Type: 19th C ornamental German wood type, set and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry
Paper: Magnani Incisioni 
Edition: Ten silver folio boxes with a built-in display easel
Description: A folio of ten etchings of a zeppelin in its travels around the world and close to home  

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Title: Vedute Italiane
Year: 1997
Text: Essay by Sharon Krauss
Prints: 16 etchings 
Type: Centaur, set and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry
Paper: Magnani Pescia
Edition: 15 enclosures made by Linda Lembke 
Description: A folio depicting an abandoned abbey and surrounding landscape in Tuscany, the center of the artist’s and writer’s loving depiction of the pleasures of the Italian countryside 

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Title: What the Animals Teach Us
Year: 1995
Text: What the Animals Teach Us, poem by Chard deNiord 
Prints: 26 etchings 
Type: Jansen, hand-set and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry
Paper: Frankfurt
Edition: 25 books, bound by Linda Lembke 
Description: A book depicting the adaptive variety and character of form of animate creation and 
reminding us of what we know about ourselves from looking at the animal world

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Title: Flower
Year: 1993
Text: The Flower, poem by Chard deNiord.
Prints: Five hand-colored mezzotints from photoengraved plates
Type: Garamond, set and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry
Paper: Lana Gravure 
Edition: Ten, gold silk-covered enclosures bound by Linda Lembke 
Description: A book revealing the grace, mystery, and seductiveness of flowers. The plates combine the techniques of mezzotint with the pentimento of photoengravings of Rembrandt paintings. 


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Title: Town
Year:1993
Text: Excerpts from postcard correspondence from the artist’s collection of postcards dating from the first decade of the 20th C 
Prints: Ten etchings hand-colored by the artist
Type: Hand-lettered by Helen Merena 
Paper: Lana Gravure
Edition: 20 books, bound by Linda Lembke 
Description: A fold-book of principal monuments and views which marked life and labor in a 19th-century New England town. 

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Title: Train
Year: 1994
Text: Train, poem by Chard deNiord
Prints: Ten etchings 
Type: Title page set in antique wood type, poem set in Stymie bold, set and printed by Dan Keleher of Wild Carrot Letterpress 
Paper: Magnani Incisioni 
Edition: Ten folios, each holding a canceled plate, made by Linda Lembke
Description: A suite of ten etchings evoking the power, movement, and presence of these machines and their primacy in the American landscape. 


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Title: Bridge
Year: 1992
Text: Title page set and printed by Dan Keleher of Wild Carrot Letterpress
Prints: 15 etchings
Type: 19th C. wood type
Paper: Magnani Incisioni 
Edition: Ten folios, bound by Linda Lembke 
Description: A suite of etchings depicting the relationship of these structures to the land joined and space traversed by the bridge. The series underscores the architectural tension of the geometry of the picture plane, of the natural setting, and of the structure of the bridge.  

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Title: River
Year: 1991
Text: River, poem in three stanzas by Chard deNiord
Prints: Ten etchings 
Type: Romulus, hand-set and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry
Paper: Magnani Incisioni
Edition: Ten folding books and ten folios in blue Japanese book cloth embossed with gold titling
Description: A book of ten etchings by Brian D. Cohen and a poem in three stanzas by Chard    deNiord.  The images are based on the shifting geometry of a river and the enfolding    landscape. The poem and etchings explore the reversal and interchange of form and    emptiness, light and dark, land and water.  

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Title: Inferno
Year: 1990
Text: Thirteen poems by Chard deNiord based on the Inferno of Dante Alighieri 
Prints: 13 matted prints 
Type: Caslon 514 and are printed offset by John Smith of Press On 
Paper: Magnani Incisioni (etchings); Mohawk Superfine cover (text)
Edition: Ten clamshell folios bound by Linda Lembke 
Description: The etchings evoke vivid landscapes, a labyrinth of spaces without time, and the poems reveal moral and emotional states suggested by the landscape. The densely textured etchings use a great variety of printing techniques--chine collé, multiple plates, a la poupée printing, and double printing.  

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Broadsides 





















Title: The Dogs at Live Oaks Beach, Santa Cruz 
Year: 2006
Text: The Dogs at Live Oaks Beach, Santa Cruz, poem by Alicia Ostriker
Prints: Etching, printed in color 
Type: Hand-set and printed by Golgonooza Letter Foundry 
Paper: Magnani Incisioni
Edition: 40
Description: Published for the New England College Master of Fine Arts in Poetry program

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Title: Waste Not
Year: 2005
Text: Waste Not, poem by Joan Larkin
Prints: Etching, printed in color
Type: Hand-set and printed by Golgonooza Letter Foundry 
Paper: Magnani Incisioni
Edition: 40
Description: Published for the New England College Master of Fine Arts in Poetry program

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Title: Parable
Year: 2004
Text: Parable, poem by Anne-Marie Macari
Prints: Etching, printed in color
Type: Hand-set and printed by Golgonooza Letter Foundry 
Paper: Magnani Incisioni
Edition: 40
Description: Published for the New England College Master of Fine Arts in Poetry program

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Title: The Animal Messenger
Year: 2003 
Text: The Animal Messenger, poem by Jane Mead
Prints: Etching, printed in color
Type: Hand-set and printed by Golgonooza Letter Foundry 
Paper; Magnani Incisioni
Edition: 40
Description: Published for the New England College Master of Fine Arts in Poetry program 


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Title: Two Doves
Year: 2002
Text: A Voice’s Gaze, poem by Li-Young Lee, and The Inkspots, poem by Gerald Stern 
Prints: Etching, printed in color
Type: Hand-set and printed by Golgonooza Letter Foundry 
Paper: Magnani Incisioni
Edition: 40
Description: Published for the New England College Master of Fine Arts in Poetry program 

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Title: A Coney Island of the Mind 
Year: 1998
Text: Stanza II of A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Prints: Etching 
Type: Futura, hand-set and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry
Paper: Magnani Incisioni
Edition: 25
Description: Broadside featuring an etching of the Steeplechase from Coney Island 

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Title: Adam and Eve's Lament
Year: 1996
Text: Adam Lament, and Eve's Lament, two poems by Chard deNiord
Prints: Etching with chine collé 
Type: Bulmer, printed by Brighton Press
Paper: Rives BFK
Edition: 25    
Description: Broadside recalling the sadness and betrayal of the Fall, and the troubled relationship of the sexes, co-published with Brighton Press of San Diego.


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Title: Tree of Wisdom
Year: 1995
Text: Tree of Wisdom, poem by Chard deNiord
Prints: Multiple plate etching
Type: Jansen, hand-set and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry
Paper: Magnani Incisioni
Edition: 15
Description: A broadside on the nature of contemplation and revelation 


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Title: Gulf Memo
Year: 1993
Text: Gulf Memo, poem by Stephen Sandy
Prints: Etching
Type: Stymie bold, hand-set and printed by Dan Keleher of Wild Carrot Letterpress
Paper: Magnani Incisioni
Edition: 25
Description: An anti-war broadside published at the time of the first Gulf War 

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Trade Books



















Hospital Drawings, 40 drawings made during Brian’s 100 days of hospitalization in 2020, during which he spent many hours of these days in a chair drawing heads from artists he admired throughout his life. Published by Bridge Press, 2022 




















The Beethoven Heads: Variations on Variations, 15 drawings of Beethoven, a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the composer. Published by Bridge Press, 2022 















Bestiary, Chard deNiord (poems), Carolyn Forché (foreword). A collaborative book project comprising over thirty poems and prints portraying the integrity of animals' wildness, beauty, and beatitude. Published by Bridge Press, 2022 

















Brian D. Cohen: Emblems, Chard deNiord (essay), Nancy Eddy (essay). The edition is limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Published by Bridge Press, 2016 























The Bird Book, Holiday Eames (author), Brian D. Cohen (illustrator) A children's alphabet book created for their son, David, each letter of the alphabet in both uppercase and lowercase, corresponds to the bird illustrated on each page. Published by Green Writers Press, 2013

The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America's Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite, Tom Wessels (author), Brian D Cohen (illustrator). Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of the granite summits of North America. Published by Countryman Press, 2002

Brian D. Cohen: Books and Prints, Connell Gallagher (introduction), Helen Whybrow (essay), with reproductions of 75 etchings and broadsides. The edition is limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Published by Bridge Press, printed by The Stinehour Press, 2001 

Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, Ann H Zwinger (foreword), Tom Wessels (author), Brian D. Cohen (illustrator). Etched into the land is the history of how we have inhabited it, the storms and fires that have shaped it, and its response to these and other changes. Published by Countryman Press, 1997


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