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The Statue With No Face
by Richard Krech
published by Quartermoon Press,
June 2002

Quartermoon Pressis pleased to announce the publication of the first in its new letterpress broadside series. Richard Krech's poem The Statue With No Face is a meditation on the destruction of the 1500-year-old stone Buddhas which were destroyed by Afghanistan's Taliban just over one year ago.

The Statue With No Faceis published in a limited edition of 126, of which 100 are numbered and 26 lettered & signed. Only 30 of the numbered copies and 14 of the lettered signed copies are offered for sale. They are letterpress printed by Jason Davis, on eighty-pound acid-free Fox River Confetti paper. The paper is archival, and is 100% recycled, containing 50% post-consumer waste. To order your copy
please email us or click the buttons below.

numbered copy, $10.00:
lettered & signed copy, $20.00:

To see more books by Richard Krech, including
"The 1932 3Af Claret", please click here.

For additional ordering information, please see our ordering info page.

Further Information:
CNN's report on the destruction of the Buddhas