Marvin Bell. Shakespeare's Wages, August 1, 2004. (9" X 10") 150 copies set from Perpetua types and printed on dampened Somerset and Fox River papers. Line drawings by Nikki Ruddy. $175 William himself has achieved respectability beyond London. That poaching business was the fling of a teen, the record repaired. A transgression not of bards, but of those whose mouths water for deer. Oh but William with Histories has conquered all rows and every table. from the poem "Shakespeare's Wages" .......... How to buy Shakespeare's Wages Book orders can be made via email, please contact Zachary at zachary [at] gendun [com] with the titles you wish to purchase (Please note that the above email address is written with [at] replacing "@" and [dot] replacing "." in order to avoid excessive spamming; by clicking on the address your computer will recogize this format and send your message normally.) .......... About the Poet Now retired after forty years on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Marvin Bell is known for his independence, visible in eighteen books, as well as a longtime commitment to teaching. He is the creator of a form known as the Dead Man Poems, for which he is both famous and infamous. He now teaches for the low-residency MFA program based at Pacific University in Oregon. Mr. Bell has served also on the faculties of Goddard College and the Universities of Hawaii, Washington, Wichita State and Portland State. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and Port Townsend, Washington. About the Artist Nikki Ruddy, a native of Minnesota, has created, exhibited, and shown her work in both the U.S. and abroad—including The Adler Gallery and Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia. In 2004 she was named Student Photographer of the Year by Black and White Magazine, and in 2005 she was awarded the Fresh honor for emerging artists in Australia. Nikki received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The National Art School in Sydney in the disciplines of drawing, photography, and art theory. Her photography and visual art establishes a dialogue between the common experience and its subjective nuances—investigating safety, violence, home, and personal misfortune. Her work also studies the longing for permanence in, and attachment to a temporal, impermanent world considering the impressions we form about the world as children—often accepting them as truths—and the ensuing consequences as we grow into adults and these impressions are overthrown. As artist Thurman Botes describes, “Her work concentrates on the mystery of perspective, how fragile one’s sense of order and orientation can be in a reality that she often presents as a consensual agreement between humans, not a set of universal laws”.