January 2008
3 posts
Soft Cover Bookbinding →
This is what I’ve been focusing all of my time on lately. The collaborative chap book of poetry by Jake Levine and myself should be coming out soon…I just have to figure out how to bind it properly. But I came across this pretty cool tutorial on how to sew signatures and glue them into a soft cover. Usually when sewing signatures you have to sew them around tape and then glue a spine...
So I wrote that poem I was talking about...
On The Fringes
On Tuesday, a man wearing camel hair
made plans with a woman bathed in shades.
Lunch, or breakfast on a Friday.
The first party slept until the afternoon
and the other died in a car crash
at 12:30.
Think not of missed connections.
There are smiling tamale ladies
selling their good in air conditioned doorways.
At night, when the street lamps
are the highest in the sky,...