Snowy Fields (2023) Elizabeth Adams, author and artist, with a critical essay by Michael Szpakowski
A series of charcoal landscape drawings of the artist's childhood home, done in the winter following her father's death, lead to a reflection on identity, place, grief, and the artistic process. The book also includes a critical essay by Michael Szpakowski on Adams' work. 96 pages, perfect bound paperback. Phoenicia Publishing, December 2023. Link to book page at publisher's website.
Losing Touch (2021) Magda Kapa, author; Elizabeth Adams, editor, designer, and illustrator
Losing Touch contains a series of ten-line poems, written between March 2020 and the end of February 2021. They are about living during the pandemic, but not about the pandemic in a descriptive or overt sense. By regularly condensing her thoughts and emotions while also chronicling the passage of seasons and her own individual life, Magda Kapa expressed with poignancy, sensitivity, and even humor, what so many of us experienced during that time. The book is illustrated with twelve ink drawings, most of which were done during the same period. 92 pages, paperback, Phoenicia Publishing, August 2021. Link to book page.
Ice Mountain: An Elegy (2017) Dave Bonta, author; Elizabeth Adams, editor, designer, and illustrator
Aldo Leopold once observed that "one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." In Ice Mountain: An Elegy, poet and naturalist Dave Bonta invited readers to share this solitude. The book is illustrated with original linocuts. 132 pages, paperback, Phoenicia Publishing, 2017. Finalist, Banff Mountain Book Awards. Link to book page.
Annunciation (2015) Poetry by sixteen contemporary poets; Elizabeth Adams, editor, designer, and illustrator
Elizabeth Adams invited a diverse group of poets - Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and secular; mostly but not all female - to consider the story of Mary and the angel Gabriel for an illustrated collection. The result was a volume filled with creative, surprising, moving, modern, and personal poetic responses to the Annunciation story, with illustrations from original linocut relief prints made for the book. Large format paperback (8" x 10"), 72 pages, Phoenicia Publishing, 2015. Link to book page.