The sixteen one-of-a-kind books of poetry by Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca are the fruit of a five-year collaboration between poet and model Mary Julia Klimenko, artist Manuel Neri, calligrapher Thomas Ingmire, and design binders Daniel E. Kelm, Kylin Lee, and fellow mechanics at the Wide Awake Garage.

“Things that Dream: Contemporary Calligraphic Artists' Books” / “Cosas que sueñan: Libros de artistas caligráficos contemporáneos” is the catalog published with the recently closed exhibition by the same name celebrated at Stanford University's Green Library.

The catalog features an extensive English and Spanish text essay about the project by contemporary art critic Bruce Nixon together with shorter texts by Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress; artist and essayist Joseph Goldyne; Michael Keller, University Librarian and Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University Libraries; Roberto Trujillo, Frances & Charles Field Curator of Special Collections and Head, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University; and Steve Woodall, Director, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago.

Generously illustrated in full color with large-format double-page images from each of the books that were the focus of the exhibition. Designed by John Hubbard, Eson Design, it has 566 pages and is on sale for $85.00. To purchase it or for more information, click here.