WITH FRAGILE SPIRIT

Five-volume poetry collection by Jim Dine; explores memory, autobiography, anti-Semitism, racism, climate change, politics, grief, and aging through poetry, handwritten manuscripts, photography, and color imagery; consisting of A Beautiful Day, Scottish Kriah, Like the Big Boy Tomato, Baby Care, and Chromogenic Poems; book design by Jim Dine, Gerhard Steidl, and Gwenda Winkler-Vetter; published by Steidl in 2025; 400 pages across five clothbound hardcover volumes housed in a slipcase; English.

DIMENSIONS

Books: 12 × 18 cm (4.7 × 7.1 in.)

Slipcase: approximately 12.4 × 19.1 × 6.5 cm (4.9 × 7.5 × 2.6 in.)

PUBLISHER

Steidl, Göttingen

BOOK DESIGN 

Jim Dine

Gerhard Steidl

Gwenda Winkler-Vetter

CONTENTS 

A Beautiful Day 

48 pages

2 black-and-white photographs

Scottish Kriah 

32 pages

2 black-and-white photographs

1 color image

Like the Big Boy Tomato 

168 pages

157 color images

handwritten poetry and visual work

Baby Care 

64 pages

Chromogenic Poems

88 pages

41 color photographs

BINDING  

Five clothbound hardcover volumes in publisher's slipcase

LANGUAGE  

English

ISBN  

978-3-96999-159-6