The Fourth Book by Michael Corris is a selection of incidents on a page. It is an artist’s book–a model of expression–and a catalog for a demand driven production–a patron’s handbook.

Contents include: “Just Men”: a contribution to caricature’s rebirth; “Lit & Put Out”: logos for American dreams; “Bronze, Lilac, Robin’s Egg, Marine, & Crimson”: an old enhued poetic reverie on diversity; “Flags of Convenience”: banner to fly alongside your cabin in the sky; “W. H. Auden’s ‘September 1, 1939’ & Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Encounter with the Poet Auden’”: two poets and their struggle with the complexities of agency; and “indexes 01-03: Plumes, Ghosts, and Frames & Hues”: three archives. - The artist