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	I was 12 years old the first time I saw a hand made book by someone I knew. It was a limited edition of 3 or maybe 4 books on Japanese Paper Making. The Art & Poetry Link opens a PDF of an edition of 7 books. The "Camel" style was my original design. I wanted to create a book which would be good for small etchings and paintings. It had to be large enough to also handel enough text to document the art. This model works for both Limited Editions and One of a Kind.
	This is a small pocket book I created for art and poetry. This edition is "Words Alone". I assembled it on the computer, and it was an on going hassle. layout of pages, printing the right back to the correct front, collating, stapling and folding. I only made about 25. That seemed enough for my local poetry fans.
	In Words Alone, edition 3, Poetry by Glen River, The reader can expect the unexpected. River’s craft is intelligent, evocative and most importantly, original. In Yellow Jacket(The Ancient Legend), River sustains the euphemism he’d created of the soldier and “his passion” which “would still drive him to use his sword.” And further: “Killing became his solution for everything.” River continues with unsettling implication and innuendo of domestic unrest, also possibly recalling the military conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan: “Smoke them out.” “Be sure to get the exact chemical designed for their destruction.” These lines and images are so very topical with regard to human warfare and ecological destruction. This is an extremely important poem. The subtle theme of human bloodlust, disrespect for all life and struggle rings as loud as the scream of mortar rounds and anti-war demonstrators. “Nature is superior, and we are the apprentice.” Don’t you remember how Nature took away our preeminence and made us small…” is a line that serves not only as a portended hind-sight but, hopefully a reminder to the audience of the power of Nature and the action and reaction of humankind. With Talking to God--River is at his highest philosophical prowess first demonstrated in the sophisticated yet simple language of Wolf In Shepard’s Clothing-- the first poem in the collection. This poem is extremely Buddhist and Taoist but more so an amazing reminder of Self and the place of a human being in society, nature, and human ego. “God is bar-coding our torment, encoding future generations with genetic guilt,” has got to be one of the most Orwellian, Huxleyian, and impressive lines this reviewer has both heard and read in modern poetry! Lingo-- is a an exquisite and seemingly personal poem that grows into what feels like a mantra by its end, which is unexpected. This poem’s opening line should be quoted by college students across the country! During World War II, Claude McKay’s poem: If We Must Die was read to the British citizens, by Winston Churchill and into the Congressional Record, by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. for the purpose of a rallying cry. If one is familiar with the McKay poem, and happens to read The Strongest Man, by Glen River, it will be easy to see how poets have been misunderstood for generations by the masses and the elites. In this poem, one of the shortest and by far, among the most powerful in the chapbook, it is easy to see that a copy of this compact collection of poetry should be sent to each US serviceman and woman stationed in the Middle East, during these times of war and unpredictability. -Robert Milby March 26, 2004
	Paris Journal (click this link to buy hardcopy on line) This is an art book of paintings and sketches created while I was traveling and working in Europe. The interesting thing about this book, is that it asks the question about modern book migration into new media. If you were to look at the original pages of the book, you would be certain that it was hand made. However the hands making the blank book of rice paper were not mine. I bought a blank hand made book and painted in it. Similarly I may buy a stretched & gessoed canvas and proceed to make a painting on it. There is no question that the work of art is considered hand made by my hands. With this book I have used a camera to get images from my Journal's, import them to my computer, arranged them into a master PDF file, and uploaded it to an on demand printer and published the book, electronically as you can see by clicking on the cover picture, and on demand as a traditional book. As this work finds expression in many forms as with all fine art, there is only one original. Paris Journal (click this link for Free on line book) ISBN 978-1-4357-4590-2 Publisher Glen River Copyright ©2008 Glen River (Standard Copyright License) Language English Country United States Publication Date January 31, 2009 60 pages, Perfect Bound, Full-color
	This was a record of a dynamic group of paintings by my friend Charls Daugherty. I felt he had made a statement important to the times and insights into the psyche of the modern world shaped by media.
Art Journal	Pages from a leather bound Journal 1998 - 2002