![bookarts_ragman_first.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1558838663893-NNBPCBCKQ94WUYDOES0G/bookarts_ragman_first.jpg)
![Ragman is a narrative artists’ book titled after a song I often heard my mother sing when I was a child.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581798776-CA8BEVAS858QP6JC2S3M/bookarts_ragman_A.jpg)
![When she was young, she would listen for the Ragman, an African American recycler whose route included the white working class neighborhood where she was raised.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581798230-6UHXZOHMSTVCTYE7VMB7/bookarts_ragman_B.jpg)
![The Rag Man’s song was really more of a street cry. It was an element in an everyday soundscape within the larger context of racially-segregated Louisville, Kentucky in the 1940s.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581813483-8U27FESGPD0LO6Y9HRYH/bookarts_ragman_C.jpg)
![The book is a do-si-do construction, made from original handmade cotton paper, couched with stained rags and dish towels.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581802611-S6NAU2N769WPW3TEO50C/bookarts_ragman_D.jpg)
![Other elements of this book are laser-printed text, vintage photograph reproductions, masking tape and staples.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581808559-DZ0SPHSUOALBOBBX474Y/bookarts_ragman_E.jpg)
![Ragman is a narrative artists’ book titled after a song I often heard my mother sing when I was a child.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581798776-CA8BEVAS858QP6JC2S3M/bookarts_ragman_A.jpg)
Ragman is a narrative artists’ book titled after a song I often heard my mother sing when I was a child.
![When she was young, she would listen for the Ragman, an African American recycler whose route included the white working class neighborhood where she was raised.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581798230-6UHXZOHMSTVCTYE7VMB7/bookarts_ragman_B.jpg)
When she was young, she would listen for the Ragman, an African American recycler whose route included the white working class neighborhood where she was raised.
![The Rag Man’s song was really more of a street cry. It was an element in an everyday soundscape within the larger context of racially-segregated Louisville, Kentucky in the 1940s.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581813483-8U27FESGPD0LO6Y9HRYH/bookarts_ragman_C.jpg)
The Rag Man’s song was really more of a street cry. It was an element in an everyday soundscape
within the larger context of racially-segregated Louisville, Kentucky in the 1940s.
![The book is a do-si-do construction, made from original handmade cotton paper, couched with stained rags and dish towels.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581802611-S6NAU2N769WPW3TEO50C/bookarts_ragman_D.jpg)
The book is a do-si-do construction, made from original handmade cotton paper,
couched with stained rags and dish towels.
![Other elements of this book are laser-printed text, vintage photograph reproductions, masking tape and staples.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa3ed1e2487fda3b6906019/1523581808559-DZ0SPHSUOALBOBBX474Y/bookarts_ragman_E.jpg)
Other elements of this book are laser-printed text, vintage photograph reproductions,
masking tape and staples.