Ave, Materia by Jean Hartig

Selected and introduced by Fanny Howe

To me “spiritual” means there is no need to discuss the body. “Religious” means fallen on your face among the fabrics and still feeling. This book struck me as religious in the most beautiful, modern sense: tragic while slapping off the fate of being human, and pretending something more human and beautiful is coming. 

—Fanny Howe

Edition: 500 Copies of the winning books were printed by Westcan Printing Group and designed by Gabriele Wilson, with covers by Leanne Shapton.