Scott King, editor & printer

Scott King is the founder and editor of Red Dragonfly Press. He grew up in western Minnesota not far from Fargo-Moorhead in Pelican Rapids. After a substantial education in engineering (chemical then environmental) he turned to poetry. He had the good fortune to have the poets Dale Jacobson and Robert Edwards as mentors. He has studied Spanish and Modern Greek and has translated work by Jorge Carrera Andrade, Pablo Neruda, Yannis Ritsos, and Fereydoun Faryad. Daily postings of his Ritsos translations can be viewed at yannisritsos.blogspot.com

His most recent work is Where The Water Falls, a letterpress printed chapbook of seven largely alliterative poems. This book was printed at Verna Press in New Orleans by Peter Anderson who was an apprentice at Red Dragonfly Press summer 2006.

The Thistlewords Press imprint was invented as a way to distance and distinguish his work from that of Red Dragonfly Press. The occasionally urge to set and print a poem, pamphlet, or book has resulted in the following titles

THE HILL (2002). A single poem elegy for my mother. Illustration by Jim Fletcher. Letterpress printed from Garamond type. 100 copies. $15

SONNET XIX by Pablo Neruda (2005). English translation by Scott King. Bi-lingual letterpress edition. Printed in Dante metal type. 55 copies. $25

THE HILLS (2005). Three poems about the hills in and around Maplewood State Park in Minnesota. Illustrations by Clarisse Parrette. Letterpress printed from Linotype Melior. 125 copies. $20 (Deluxe edition of 24 copies sold out)

A RING OF RUNES (2006). Sequence of poems in the manner of Scottish poet George Mackay Brown, here in celebration of a wedding in East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Letterpress printed from Dante type. 52 copies. Sold out and given away.

LEFTOVER ORDINARY (2006). Full-length collection of poems in the manner of the great Modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos. No Aegean Sea, but a lot of prairie and lakes. Trade paperback. $12

BREVITIES (Forthcoming). Letterpress collection of tiny poems. Printed using Bulmer types.

MOSAIC IN STONE (Forthcoming). Large, elephant folio size, letterpress printing of a long poem constructed to honor a magnificient chimney.