prayers not meant for heaven
Book Cover Design | Interior Design & Layout | Art Direction
client: Nan Seymour and Toad Hall Editions
It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with Liz on Prayers Not Meant for Heaven. Elegant and unassuming, her design enlivens the words page by page. I’m unable to imagine a kinder or more vibrant home for my poems.
–Nan Seymour | Author. Teacher.
THE PROJECT: Create a vessel for a collection of spare, yet rich pieces of poetry about which the author herself says: “These prayers are not meant to ascend, but to travel along the earth like vines and leave us more radically connected, more lovingly and knowingly intertwined.”
Artist Amy Tingle and I worked together to create an evocative and “earthly” image for the front cover, to represent the work in this book—something hopeful yet real, something uplifting yet representative of the raw beauty of the words inside the pages. The layout of the interior of the book reflects the same spare and reflective feel.
“These are the prayers we most need right now—prayers for courage, accountability, awe and uncertainty. Poem prayers that link us more deeply to each other and the miraculous world we inhabit. Spare prayers as essential as bone. Through the brittle, the failed, the broken, Nan Seymour’s love of life shines through.”
—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of Hush and Naked for Tea
