Stephanie Copoulos-Selle
Citron Press

     72 Mile Road

Letterpress text with silkscreen and woodcut illustrations. Created in 1996-7, 9 7/8" x 7 7/8" x 5/8", 72 pages, and 26 in the edition.

The narrative of the book is loosely based on traditional hero stories, such as the Odyssey. It  follows the structure of a mythic journey as described by Joseph Campbell in A Hero of a "Thousand Faces".  The hero must leave society and pass through a gate (voluntarily or involuntarily), enter into another world (dimension), kill demons, often helped by others  (sometimes seemingly insignificant creatures), return through the gate (sometimes does not want to go back), on returning to society gives back in a enriched manner the things that were learned on the voyage, and finally the hero finds atonement with the godhead.  These components have difficulty for the female heroine, in that she can not find atonement with the male god.  Therefore, this heroine does not have a male hero experience such as killing dragons or being one with the godhead.  She does seek truths and face personal demons.  She follows a path, and that path is about the search and the process of life, but does not necessarily find answers.