Deer Book offers a long poem with documentation on the back to an incident in 2008 and 2009 that shocked the author and residents of Pt. Reyes, CA, with the elimination of 1050 Axis and Fallow Deer in the Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County, California. After 911 the deer were considered 'Invasive species' and were targeted as 'foreign invasives' by the park manager. Prior to that they had been on the land of the park before it was a park and much beloved by the residence in Pt. Reyes, CA. They did not eat the same thing as domestic deer, and were loved by the author, as they had been a sign to her to begin writing her books as a young woman. This is the first of two books, another a poetry collection about the deer is called, Poems for the Lost Deer, and available on the poetry page. The book is a carousel book, with a removable spine and push war technique brushwork to create images framed in a third layer of windows, a second middle layer is handmade printed Japanese paper cut out to form a lacy forest effect. The panes frame images relating to the poems words below. The book can be viewed closed, as a codex, or extended to 6' in length and read as a small mural. A photo of the 'Wailing Wal'l for the deer appears in the center back that was posted by the residence of Pt. Reyes. The book is one of a kind and is available for sale by the author for $500.
