Category: Review
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Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings
Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate ReadingsJanelle Rebel2024The Everyday Press Perfect-bound softcover with French folds353 pages5.25 × 7.75 in. closedLetterpress cover, offset inside Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings is a bibliography of bibliographies. Not just any bibliographies, though — author Janelle Rebel is both an artist and a librarian, and the collected bibliographies reside at that same…
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Yet to Be Delivered
Yet to Be DeliveredSveinn Fannar Jóhannsson2023Multinational Enterprises Single sheets bound with prong fastener28 pages8.3 × 11.7 in. closedInk jetEdition of 50 A subgenre of publishing which always entices me is the “document”—that flimsy thing which usually emerges from a very short pipeline between need and form. I worked for a short time at a business…
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NEW YORK POST Flag Profile
NEW YORK POST Flag ProfileMichalis Pichler2017Co-published by COLLAGE and “greatest hits,” distributed by Buchhandlung Walther König Folded, unbound newsprint88 pages11 × 14 in. closedOffsetEdition of 5,000 NEW YORK POST Flag Profile is a redacted version of a special edition of the New York Post issued on the first anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.…
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Two Blank Books
The Collected Poems of Donald J. TrumpBrad Freeman20245.75 × 6.5 in. closedSingle-signature clothbound hardcover40 pagesInk jetEdition of 50 I Have Nothing to Say, and I am Saying ItLandry Butler20246.25 × 9.25 in. closedPerfect-bound hardcover200 pagesDigital printing This month’s review departs from my usual format, just as November 2024 has been an unusual month. I am reviewing two books together, and the books are, not…
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Senza Titolo (Untitled)
Senza Titolo (Untitled)Angelo Ricciardi2021 Unbound; one folded and gathered signature6 × 8.25 in. closed48 pagesInk jetEdition of 10 Angelo Ricciardi’s Senza Titolo (Untitled) is a busy book of fragmented collages, printed full-bleed in black and white. The whites are toned down to a light gray, lending the book the appearance of newsprint. And, like a…
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Poems Sneaking Through a Sieve
Poems Sneaking Through a SieveRiley CavanaughHave a Nice Day Press2022 Spiral-bound softcover8.5 × 6.25 in.66 pagesDigital printingEdition of 500 Poems Sneaking Through a Sieve combines poems from two series, one derived from spam emails and the other from CAPTCHAs, into a single, spiral-bound compendium. Riley Cavanaugh’s visual poetry and hand-drawn annotations are accompanied by a…
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Tender to Empress
Tender to EmpressMaureen AlsopWet Cement Press2022 8 × 8 in. closed114 pagesPerfect-bound hardcoverInk jet Tender to Empress is a collection of visual poems by poet, artist, and psychologist, Maureen Alsop. These digital collage-poems began as a gallery installation, but the book has its own dynamics, thoughtfully pairing pages into spreads and sequencing the poems toward…
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Jericho’s Daughter
Jericho’s DaughterWarren Lehrer and Sharon HorvathEarSay2024 6.75 × 9 in. closed50 pagesSoftcover dos-á-dos with wraparound cover and string and button enclosureHP Indigo Jericho’s Daughter reimagines the biblical story of Jericho, this time told from the perspective of Rahab, the Canaanite prostitute who is spared by Joshua when the Israelites raze Jericho and who, having converted…
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Prisoners’ Inventions
Prisoners’ InventionsAngeloTemporary Services (Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer)Edited by Mairead Case and designed by Partner & PartnersHalf Letter Press2020 8.5 × 5.5 in. closed200 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Prisoners’ Inventions is what the title suggests: a compendium of devices designed, built, and used by people incarcerated in US prisons. First published in 2003 with WhiteWalls, this…
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Pictures From the Outside: Interview with Chantal Zakari
Pictures From the OutsideChantal ZakariEighteen Publications2023 136 pages5.875 × 8.25 in. closedOffset printingEdition of 500 For Pictures From the Outside, Chantal Zakari asked her incarcerated adult students if there was a significant place they would like to see photographed, and then attempted to make the photographs they requested. The premise seems simple, but the vicissitudes…
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