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Woodcuts and Poetry: Origin of Oranges

Painter, James Erikson has put together a limited edition artist's book entitled "Origin of Oranges." The elegant accordion style design contains collages and woodcuts, by Erikson, digitally scanned, reproduced and accompanied by poems by Daniel Hales, Amy Thatcher, Robin Stout and AJay McLaughlin. James Erikson, Origin of Oranges #1 , 2015, Woodcut Who Waits Who Runs by Robin Stout You say I am too happy to be a poet. You, you ubiquitous you. Floating in and out, in and out of my poems like clouds in a blue, blue sky. You say my pain is more frightened lamb than wounded lion. That I am low on ink. And, besides I don't dress right. That's what you know. I am the guy on Atlantic Avenue with apricot hair. I am the swollen river, the fifteen- dollar sandwich. I am the woman in head-to-toe black on a coral street. I am the car stuck in traffic. I am the dog who waits who runs behind you and sinks yello...