The first installment of our summer reading series here in the Springs, Say Hello to Your Last Poem! happened this past Friday (5/16/14). And the first chapbook of the year happened as well, featuring work by Divya Victor & Mathias Svalina.
Like the Anna/Anselm book, this is an accordion-style, dos-a-dos chapbook. Digital interiors (with more experiments in modular title lettering) and letterpress (sort of) covers. “Sort of” letterpress because one of the layers was printed with an experimental, woven matrix—more on that in a later post.
From the colophon(s):
This book was designed & printed by the NewLights Press. The text pages were printed with lasers and the covers were letterpress printed from lead type, gel medium collagraphs and a flexible lettering matrix woven from painted chipboard and vinyl. All of the paper is from the French Paper Company, 100 percent recycled and made with hydroelectric power. The text was set in Adobe and ATF Garamonds. The modular title lettering was designed by NewLights. 100 copies of the book were made.
This book was made for a reading by Divya Victor and Mathias Svalina on Friday, May 16, 2014, as part of the Say Hello to Your Last Poem! reading series. It was amazing. Where were you anyway? Folded, collated and stapled by our extended mountain-town family: Marina Eckler, Noel Black, Corie Cole and Aaron Cohick. Thank you for reading.
About the authors:
Mathias Svalina is the author of three books, most recently The Explosions from Subito Press. Big Lucks Press will release his book Wastoid in 2014. He is an editor for Octopus Books.
Divya Victor is the author of Things To Do With Your Mouth (Les Figues, 2014), Partial Derivative of the Unnameable (Troll Thread, 2005) Goodbye John! On John Baldessari (2012) and PUNCH (2011) from Gauss PDF; and the chapbooks UNSUB (2014), Hellocasts by Charles Reznikoff by Divya Victor by Vanessa Place (2011), and SUTURES (2009). Her book Natural Subjects is the 2014 winner of the Bob Kaufman Award, selected by Anselm Berrigan and is forthcoming from Trembling Pillow Press. Her poetry, poetics, and criticism have appeared in Dusie, Journal of Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies, Crux, and P-QUEUE, among others. She earned a PhD from the University at Buffalo, and she currently lives in Buffalo where she is a teaching artist for Just Buffalo Literary Center and a writer for Jacket2.
Divya’s Half / Mathias’s Half
Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! 2014, No. 1
Poems by Divya Victor & Mathias Svalina
40 pages, saddle stapled dos-a-dos binding
7” x 5.25” (closed)
Laser printed interior, cover letterpress printed from lead type, gel medium collagraph and woven, vinyl lettering matrix
Edition of 100
2014
OUT OF PRINT
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