To the land of Cockaigne

When women begin to write, the story changes.

Maria Tatar, (2021) The heroine with 1,001 faces

To the land of Cockaigne is a poetic portrayal of a woman who, in the histories of men, has been endlessly iconized and defamed.

Very little is known about this historical character and after twenty years of research I offer this book as an imaginative history. With delicate hand-painted watercolors and lyrical storytelling, I trace a woman’s courageous journey. In her, I see the power of the divine Feminine which our world has not only forgotten, but actively vilified and suppressed. She reminds us of the sacredness of that which has been denied; my hope is that this story of softness and strength can serve as inspiration and healing.

There is a very limited edition (twenty-five), precious, handmade paper version that has been carefully bound with a lot of care and love by Joelle Webber in Maine from her studio on Westport Island. The high-quality paper has been printed by Cassandra Sohn and John Clark at Sohn Fine Art in Massachusetts. It comes in a beautiful box designed by Aaron Freed. 

This choice of self-publishing also reflected my wish to bring a minimum of materialistic objects into the physical world unless they are of beauty, very high quality and/or support highly skilled artisan(s).

Price and editions for the print book available upon request at anne@annemourier.com

I also wanted to use another form to communicate, where one can hear the emotion of the words and engage other senses. So I decided to make an audiobook version, which is available here (10$).