\nPage count<\/span>:\u00a0 a maxium of 24 pages (six folded folios of 4 pages each)
\nText stock<\/span>:\u00a0 weight (from 24lb. to 60lb.) and color (bright white, ivory, or craft brown).
\nCover stock<\/span>:\u00a0 weight (60lb., 80lb. or 100lb.), color (we looked at several examples from the Canson Mi-teints series–I was drawn to a medium blue-gray toned sample), and texture (Lisa advised against using a cover stock that had inclusions like seeds, fibers, leaves or petals and also anything too slick or reflective).
\nEndpapers<\/span>:\u00a0 decorative papers inside the cover of the book.
\nBinding<\/span>:\u00a0 we\u2019re doing a pamphlet stitch binding.
\nInk color<\/span>:<\/p>\n
We also talked about the design of the book, including:<\/p>\n
Front Cover and Back Cover<\/span>:\u00a0 Text only? Or a combination of text and image? It really made me consider all the details we take for granted when we read a book. My head was awash in considerations about what would be best for the book that still lived mostly in my head. I pondered the examples of books that Lisa and Jennifer had brought, as well as the ones I had grabbed from my shelves at home. They were all great in their way, but none of them felt quite like the book in my head. I\u2019m sure the book will come into focus as I gather all the information needed to move forward. \u201cThink of the blank page as alpine meadow, or as the purity of undifferentiated being.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTypographically, poise is made of white space.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAllow the (type)face to speak in its natural idiom.\u201d<\/p>\n These words made me happy and I\u00a0know I\u2019ll feel their wisdom as I get deeper into the design of the book. For me, this chapbook by Anne Heide embodied the elegance and simplicity of Bringhurst’s ideas: Front Cover<\/p><\/div> Write about a place you miss. A rhopoalic is a poem where each line is one syllable longer than the line before. It ends up growing into a triangle set on its side<\/p>\n A and so on! Such a fun puzzle. I\u2019m working on mine at home, but check out Brenda Hillman\u2019s poem, “Rhopalic Aubade”<\/a>. In our second class we shared how our writing had been going (intermittently for most of us!), then each poet read some work out loud and we discussed our observations. Every writer\u2019s voice was different and I\u2019m really looking forward … Continue reading
\nFront matter<\/span>:\u00a0 which which could include some or all of the following:
\nTitle page, acknowledgements, half title page, table of contents, frontispiece (image)
\nLayout<\/span>:\u00a0 including\u00a0margins, title treatment, spacing, page numbering system (number all the pages?\u00a0 only the right-hand pages, or left-hand pages? font for text vs. font for titles, use of upper and lower case type, italics, bold, etc.
\nBackmatter<\/span>: \u00a0Author’s note or bio, colophon, epilogue.<\/p>\n
\nLisa also mentioned the different aesthetics that we could bring to our books, from the refined feeling of fine arts to the rawer edge of a \u2018zine.\u00a0 She introduced the different methods of creating our text, including the possibility of hand-writing the text and photocopying it, or working with a professional printer to print the text on a risograph machine, or making a digital file and printing it on a home computer. Each choice would influence the kinds of paper and the printing process we would choose.
\nShe recommended that we read some of Robert Bringhurst\u2019s book, The Elements of Typographic Style<\/a><\/em> and I found his advice both comforting and poetic:<\/p>\n
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\nThen it was time to get down to the nitty gritty of writing. I did free writes based on these prompts from Dan:<\/p>\n
\nWrite a letter saying goodbye to someone.
\nWrite a rhopalic poem.<\/p>\n
\nAB
\nABC
\nABCD
\nABCDE
\nABCDEF<\/p>\n
\nNext up:\u00a0 Field Trip to Logos Graphics<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"