Threads Talk Series / edited by Steve Clay and Kyle Schlesinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Charles, 1954- author.

Bervin, Jen, author.

Cutts, Simon, 1944- author.

Drucker, Johanna, 1952- author.

Loney, Alan, 1940- author.

McVarish, Emily, author.

Minsky, Richard, author.

Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931-2024, author.

Smith, Keith A., 1938- author.

Spector, Buzz, author.

Vicuña, Cecilia, author.

Walkup, Kathy, author.

Contributor:

Clay, Steven, 1951- editor.

Schlesinger, Kyle, editor.

Granary Books (Firm), publisher.

Cuneiform Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading.

Art criticism.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

185 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York City : Granary Books ; Victoria, TX : Cuneiform Press, 2016.

Summary:

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 us 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 is more significant than excellence in any isolated area. The talks were originally recorded before a small studio audience, then made available to the public on PennSound, and are now collected here in written form for the first time. THREADS began in March 2009 and concluded in October 2012. There were twelve 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Steve Clay and Kyle Schlesinger

What book does my library make? / Alan Loney

Between poetics, the poetics of between, pressing between / Charles Alexander

The metaphor books 1967-2009 / Simon Cutts

On the fetishism of the book object / Buzz Spector

From the voice to the book, from the book to the voice: a dialectic / Jerome Rothenberg

Knotations on a quipu / Cecilia Vicuña

Text from textile: stem & root / Jen Bervin

The book is a public place / Kathleen Walkup

Typo-grapho-poeisis or Some of how some poems get made / Johanna Drucker

Struggling to see / Keith Smith

Material meets metaphor / Richard Minsky

Page space / Emily McVarish.

Notes:

"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 talks were originally recorded before a small studio audience, then made available to the public on PennSound, and are now collected here in written form for the first time. Threads began in March 2009 and concluded in October 2012. There were twelve 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. The cover image is by Buzz Spector, cover and book design by Diane Bertolo of Lotus + Pixel. Illustrated with color photographs, smyth sewn in wrappers."--Publisher's description.

Edition size: 900 copies.

ISBN:

9781887123846

1887123849

OCLC:

935195310

Publisher Number:

99968014020