Labyrinths And Emblems – In Familiar Hiding Places

A Genuinely Unique Opportunity.

I alone have personally designed, pressed and published this book, the first of several more forthcoming. I created only 100 hand-signed copies of this PREMIER LIMITED EDITION CHAPBOOK and it is distributed exclusively through Opal Egg Productions, LLC.

Chapbook Intro (as seen on the inside cover):

This must-read debut chapbook is the first in a series of many chapbooks to come. It is personally handmade and signed by the author, R.D. Stone.

Teasingly inventive and mesmerizing without predictable posturing, these poems assert candor and smirk with a fresh appetite for uniqueness; containing healthy sprays of both delightfulness and vulnerability; including everything that makes up poetry’s agency.

With a capital P for delicious Performances – and a capital S for Satisfaction, you’ll nod in approval, reckoning these multitudes are quite exceptional.

18 Poems

1. Grin of Islands
2. Plunge the Birth Of Opal Spawning
3. If This World We’re Mine We Might Survive
4. Gathering Dreams Past Sorrow’s Song
5. Know of What Things Are Made
6. O Calliope
7. You Told Me Red Is Special and Grows On Poet’s Feet
8. Sail To The Age Of Plankton’s Fatigue
9. Perhaps Life Is One of Those Perfect Things
10. See Through
11. Backyard Heroes
12. Would Genesis Hold Back Belief
13. — • —  How To Preserve Life — • —
14. On a hot August Monday, I’m so fond of nothing
15. Of Fools and Traitors
16. You’re As Beautiful and Much More Invincible
17. O Dear I Knew You Looked Familiar
18. O Marvel — Wind, Sapphires, Earth and Platinum

Number of Pages: 36

Front Cover: Pen and Ink Drawing

Back Cover: Pen and Ink Drawing

Cover and Back Page: Premium Linen Textured Paper

Pages: Premium Paper

Dimensions: 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches

Quote on inside back cover:

“The intravenous administering of my words is to seek beyond the quackery of normalization and to communicate a sense of imminence to the patient; for if we are truly poet, everything is diagnostically necessary, because this world and man do require intensive care”  ~~ R.D. Stone 

 This Book Is Dedicated to My Mother and Father. May They Rest in Peace

Personally hand-stitched by the author in100% copper threading and created as a piece of art without staples.

**NOTE: Each chapbook contains 5 FAN’S FAVORITES, bringing added value to every chapbook and if purchased individually, the cost of these 5 would be $6.75.

Editions:

• Premier and Exclusive Limited Edition – $16.95
  • Hand-bound in 100% copper stitching; hand-signed, dated, numbered, and initialed by R.D. Stone to verify authenticity.
  • Printed on High-quality Paper !
  • Limited to 100 copies. The first 25 signed copies went to immediate family and close friends.

• Standard Edition– $11.95
  • The Second Edition is Not Signed and will only be signed at poetry readings, bookstores and other venues. Hand-bound with 100% copper stitching. Printed on High-quality Paper!

“My desire is to deliver my series of chapbooks into your hands for posterity and safekeeping, small treasures from me personally to you.” ~~R.D. Stone