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Konstantin Kedrov ‘The glue-bottle’ is a poem by Konstantin Kedrov (born 1942) about a glue
Бутылка клейна bottle that you should not climb into, as the poet did. After he finds that a
The glue-bottle glue-bottle is like your brain and that all sticks together. If you throw the
Moscow: Goppe, 2015 bottle into the sea, you don’t know whether it was the bottle, or yourself
305 x 205 mm. 3 pages that has been thrown away. Goppe designed four linocuts: three where
Edition: 10, copy № 3/10 with printed on loose sheets and one on front of the folder. Goppe completed the
the original linocut plates linocuts with the text of the poem, written in Indian ink by hand.
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