All of You on the Good Earth
Sonnet by Ernest Hilbert
15 x 11 inches (oblong). Broadside sonnet, with an illustration of a data punch card by Robert James Algeo, printed letterpress by David Wolfe at Wolfe Editions, Portland, Maine. [Detail illustrated above (reduced)].
50 numbered copies on fine grey printmaking paper, bottom edge untrimmed, signed by the author ; 2 unnumbered copies hors série, signed by author and publisher.
Out of print.
Henry Wessells
P.O. Box 43072, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043-0072 USA
Electronym : wessells@aol.com
Published 31 December 2008
in Upper Montclair and Philadelphia
by Temporary Culture.
Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary
Poetry Review . His poetry has appeared in the Yale Review , Parnassus ,
and the New Republic . He was educated at the University of
Oxford, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly . “ All of You
on the Good Earth ” will appear in his collection While You Were
Out , forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2011.
The title of the sonnet is the concluding phrase of a message of goodwill
broadcast from Apollo 8 by commander Frank Borman (1968).
