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Winter Air
Linda Hoffman
2001
Folded sheets with text and images laid in a cream double-thickness paper folder and matching cream flax drop box; letterpress: David Wolfe; box: Praxis bindery
letterpress printing
10 x 6 3/4 x 1 1/2 in
20 pages
edition of 200
Winter Air is a journal I wrote in memory of my mother, Annette B. Weiner. She was an extraordinary woman who did not go to college until her mid-thirties whe she was married with two young children. She went on to graduate school at Bryn Mawr College where she received her PhD. In anthropology in 1974 and then very quickly became well known in her field for her groundbreaking book, Woman of Power, Men of Renown, New Perspectives of Trobriand Exchange. She was Chair of the Anthropology Department at NYU and then became Graduate Dean of Arts and Sciences. She died after a long battle with cancer in 1977.// I began writing Winter Air on daily visits to an uninhabited island in the Nashua River in Pepperell, MA at the same time as my mother was traveling all over the world in her struggle with cancer. The book traces in distilled language the interwoven journey of our lives together. I travel in the book through word an dimage to the Trobriand Islands in New Guinea where I lived with her when I was fifteen when she was doing her early fieldwork and then returned again to New Guinea in 1998 with her ashes. Note: The book contains my text, short poems and nine archival, digital prints. The text was printed in Monotype Bembo by Wolfe Editions, Portland, Maine and the drop-back box was made with cream and blue 100% flax paper by Praxis Bindery in Easthampton, MA.
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