Abigail Rorer/The Lone Oak Press:
Swamp Impressions

Text by Barbara Hurd
Engravings by Abigail Rorer

Swamp Impressions is a visual and textual meditation on the mystery and beauty of swamps—those wet, virtually inaccessible, forbidding, murky, and potentially dangerous wetlands often graced with skeletal trees, and teeming with plant and animal life. There is beauty and a sense of wonder in this otherworldly landscape.
So many hidden worlds, so much mystery. This small book pays homage to this unique landscape.

Barbara Hurd’s text is taken from her book Stirring the Mud. Her work has won numerous awards including the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award.

Abigail Rorer’s 14 relief engravings are the result of her explorations of the swamps and wetlands that abound in her surroundings in central Massachusetts.

Sixty signed & numbered copies of this book were produced in 2026. Book design by Terrence Chouinard. Text set in Monotype Perpetua. Text and engravings printed on Zerkall Book by Abigail Rorer. Lisa Hersey bound the book with papers by Chena River Marblers.
3 inches x 4 inches in a slipcase. 44 pages.”