Threads Talk Series

by Steve Clay (Editor), Kyle Schlesinger (Editor)

Overview

Threads, a series of talks devoted to the art of the book, includes poets, scholars, artists and publishers. It explores and enriches relationships between various strands of book culture that are often approached in isolation—poetry and writing, visual and performing arts, collaboration, design, printing, independent publishing, literary history, critical theory and material culture. The premise for the series was very similar to the kind of interdisciplinary approach to the book that has interested Granary Books and Cuneiform Press all along. A book is never more successful than the relationship between its parts; the philosophical and material connections between the writing, art, design, typography, translation and distribution are more significant than excellence in any isolated area. Threads began in March 2009 and concluded in October 2012. There were 12 speakers: Alan Loney, Charles Alexander, Simon Cutts, Buzz Spector, Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, Jen Bervin, Kathleen Walkup, Johanna Drucker, Keith Smith, Richard Minsky and Emily McVarish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781887123846
Publisher:	Granary Books & Cuneiform Pr
Publication date:	06/28/2016
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Steve Clay Kyle Schlesinger 1

What Book Does My Library Make? Alan Loney 3

Between Poetics, the Poetics of Between, Pressing Between Charles Alexander 18

The Metaphor Books 1967-2009 Simon Cutts 38

Onteh Fetishism of the Book Object Buzz Spector 56

From the Vosce to the book, from the Book to the Voice: a Dialectic Jerome Rothenberg 68

Knotations on a Ouipu Cecilia Vicuña 76

Text from Textile: Stem & Root Jen Bervin 86

The Book Is a Public Place Kathleen Walkup 91

Typo-grapho-poeisis or Some of How Some Poems Get Made Johanna Drucker 102

Struggling to See Keith Smith 116

Material Meets Metaphor Richard Minsky 131

Page Space Emily McVarish 152

Contributors 179