Symbiosis

Author: Barbara Guest

Illustrator: Laurie Reid

Publisher: Kelsey Street Press (2000)

Symbiosis is the subject and art of this collaborative book by poet Barbara Guest and painter Laurie Reid. In this work, Guest reflects on her commitment to the collaborative process: "When writers associate with other forms of art, symbiosis is established, as in Nature, where dissimilar organisms live productively together." The poems are printed in three-dimensional letterpress forms, while Reid's lines are lithographically reproduced, a process sympathetic to the shifts of her book-length drawing, which is brushed in water and pigment across rag papers.