tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77111893442533339532024-03-13T20:14:01.397-07:00NewLights Press: IDE(A/O)(B)LOG(Y/UE)The Official Blog of the NewLights Press.NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.comBlogger520125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-70584311920398624182017-02-03T18:39:00.005-08:002017-04-29T14:49:56.831-07:00FINAL POST (HERE, ANYWAY)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As of February 3, 2017, this version of the NewLights Press IDE(A/O)(B)LOG(Y/UE) is officially retired. We have switched, finally, to a proper website that will also contain a blog. This older blog and all of the writing will remain up and accessible for as long as Google lets us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But please click on through to the new site to see what we are up to: <a href="http://www.newlightspress.com/">www.newlightspress.com</a></span>NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-23463768823020818122017-01-26T09:08:00.000-08:002017-01-26T09:08:11.687-08:00CODEX 2017!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NewLights will be there, with a bunch of new books, including the <i>The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press (third iteration)</i> and <i>Alphabet One: A Submanifesto of the NewLights Press.</i> Perhaps will we see you there? More info on the CODEX fair <a href="http://www.codexfoundation.org/book-fair-and-symposium/codex-2017">here.</a></span>NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-89625554112287522392015-10-21T09:30:00.000-07:002015-10-21T09:30:20.563-07:00THE MILLS COLLEGE BOOK ARTS PROGRAM IS IN DANGER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And here is a website with more info and testimonies from current and former students of the program: <a href="http://savemillsbookart.tumblr.com/">http://savemillsbookart.tumblr.com/</a></span>NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-77415625598308103592015-05-07T09:57:00.000-07:002015-05-14T09:11:11.643-07:00REAEDR MAGAZINE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ABOUT THE MAGAZINE<br /><br />REAEDR is a magazine of one word poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, produced by the NewLights Press in Colorado Springs, CO. Each issue is built around a particular theme, and that theme, as well as the pieces inside, will determine the form, shape, color, material, processes, etc. of the issue. 2015 will be the “pilot year,” with two issues planned: WAR in the summer (tentative release of mid-August 2015) and “FUCK EM IF THEY CANT TAKE A JOKE” in the fall/winter (tentative release of December 2015). The goal is to be publishing quarterly or bi-monthly in 2016.<br /><br />THEMES & DEADLINES<br /><br />Last update: May 7, 2015. <br /><br />This page will be updated with the current themes and issues as old ones expire and new ones are added. It will always be accessible through the sidebar, under the heading REAEDR MAGAZINE. <br /><br />Issue 1: WAR (Summer 2015): June 5, 2015 <br />Issue 2: “FUCK EM IF THEY CANT TAKE A JOKE” (Fall/Winter 2015): September 1, 2015<br /><br />Submissions for each issue will be accepted up until 5 PM (US Mountain Time) on the date listed. Occasionally the changing form of the magazine will require some extra steps on the part of the author for accepted pieces. These will be communicated as required.<br /><br />WHAT TO SUBMIT<br /><br />We are looking for one word, or one-word, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, related in some way to the theme of the issue(s). Submissions can be “straight text,” or visual (but still text-based) in nature. We also welcome submissions that play with, challenge, interrogate, or complicate the “one word” form. Authors/artists may submit up to five pieces for consideration in each issue. Each piece must be submitted in one of the three categories: poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. Translations and submissions in languages other than English, “real” or “not,” are welcome.<br /><br />HOW TO SUBMIT<br /><br />Submissions should be made via email, to editor Aaron Cohick at newlightspressATgmailDOTcom. The actual pieces can be typed in the body of the email, attached as PDFs, Microsoft Word docs, or RTFs. Please use PDFs, JPEGs or TIFFs for image submissions, at least 300 dpi at 100% size. Please write first if attachments are too big to send via email. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL:<br /><br />AUTHOR’S NAME: How it should be printed. No anonymous submissions please. Pseudonymous submissions are fine. Do not include a bio.<br /><br />MAILING ADDRESS: For contributor copies.<br /><br />THEME: Please include which theme you are submitting each piece for. See above for current and past themes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CATEGORY: All submissions must be made in a category: poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. A category is required for each piece submitted.<br /><br />THE PIECE(S): An individual submission can include up to 5 separate pieces. Clearly indicate title, if there is one. “Untitled” is a title, and will be treated as such. Please put each piece on its own page(s).<br /><br />PROOFS: We will do our best to send each author digital proofs of their piece(s) before each issue goes into production.<br /><br />COMPENSATION: Here in these opening stages, compensation for authors/artists will be in the form of two contributor’s copies. We hope to be able to include monetary compensation as well, after things get rolling (the target price point for each issue will be $5 to $8).<br /><br />DISTRIBUTION: The first two issues will be printed in editions of 100 copies. Most distribution will happen through direct sales and subscriptions via this website. (Subscriptions will be available for purchase in the near future.) We hope to make some copies available for sale in bookstores or art galleries. Please contact us if you are a proprietor or curator for such a place, or if you just know of a good place for that.<br /><br />In 2003 the NewLights Press (working under the imprint “Tin Woodsman Editions”) published a proto-issue of REAEDR. The digital archive version is below. We don’t really expect REAEDR to look anything like this, but hey, these things go where they want or need to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, the NewLights Press has been in existence for 15 years. I’m not quite sure what this means, other than that there is still so much more work to do. But a great deal has been done: 41 titles, 10 or so broadsides (some co-published with the Dolphin Press at MICA and not shown on this blog), numerous posters and ephemerations. Readings, workshops, panels, book fairs. Friends and family. Exhaustion and gratitude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year will be a hiatus: there will be no “official” Say Hello to Your Last Poem! readings—but there will probably be some summer readings at <a href="http://www.mountainfoldbooks.org/" target="_blank">Mountain Fold Books.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year will be a fullness: a <a href="http://magazine.naropa.edu/2015-swp/week-1.php" target="_blank">summer class at Naropa,</a> and at Colorado College. Some personal events of note. & books: the third iteration of <i>The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press,</i> potentially a supplement or submanifesto to go along with it, a book of poems by Marina Eckler, some new, larger artists’ books, a coloring book, the REAEDR magazine, and some things certainly unplanned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is an urgency, and an inarticulation. A dis-speaking, diswriting. Language continues to fail. The alphabet breaks apart, worn away like all things in the world. Can we write or print or make beyond or outside of it? Is there a book or something else, there, outside? Is there an outside there? Or is this a bringing inside? Here?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagine an object, or a life, stripped down to its richness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To mark the 15 year anniversary this week, some gifts for you:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SALE! All books and broadsides are on sale, 15% off, through next Tuesday, 5/12/15. The listed prices are the same, but when you click the button it should be 15% less. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FREE! We have released three new digital archive books: <i>The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press (second iteration), Anna’s Half / Anselm’s Half,</i> by Anna Moschovakis and Anselm Berrigan, and <i>Divya’s Half / Mathias’s Half,</i> by Divya Victor and Mathias Svalina. Scroll down for those.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SUBMIT! On Thursday we will release, finally, the call for submissions for REAEDR, the magazine of one word poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">GATHER! There will be a reading/party at <a href="http://www.mountainfoldbooks.org/" target="_blank">Mountain Fold Books</a> in Colorado Springs on Saturday, May 30. Events TBD, but most likely some sort of artist’s talk about NewLights, and some poetry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As always, thank you for reading. Your presence makes the world.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Anna’s Half / Anselm’s Half</i><br />Poems & things by Anna Moschovakis and Anselm Berrigan<br />36 pages, softcover, saddle-stapled, accordion dos-a-dos, 7” x 5.25”<br />Digitally printed text pages with letterpress (collagraph & lead type) cover<br />Edition of 100<br />2013<br />Out of Print</span>NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-54977996645616195002015-05-05T08:18:00.000-07:002015-05-05T08:18:36.865-07:00NOW (NON)LIVE ONLINE: THE NEW MANIFESTO OF THE NEWLIGHTS PRESS (second iteration)<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is the first of three digital archive books being released today, May 5, 2015, for the 15 year anniversary of the NewLights Press. This is the second iteration of <i>The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press:</i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press (second iteration)</i><br />20 pages, softcover, saddle-stapled, 6.5” x 5.5”<br />Letterpress from photopolymer plates and collagraph<br />Unlimited, iterative edition <br />2013<br />Out of Print<br /><br />PS: Expect the third iteration, as well as supplement/submanifesto by the end of 2015.</span>NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-76140703336832113222014-11-03T08:54:00.000-08:002014-11-03T08:54:22.087-08:00BOOK TV (?) WITH THE PRESS AT COLORADO COLLEGE!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The sister press of NewLights, <a href="http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/library/index.php/press/press-main" target="_blank">The Press at Colorado College,</a> was featured in a piece on C-SPAN2 Book TV's Cities Tour. It shows some students from a History class printing on the Vandercook for the first time, and NewLights/Press at CC proprietor Aaron Cohick talking about letterpress printing & making books by hand, and why, why, why. The image above is a screenshot, but you can watch the whole video here: <a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?321938-1/press-colorado-college">http://www.c-span.org/video/?321938-1/press-colorado-college</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There has been a lot of growth in our (still) little print-book-publishing community here in COS in the past year: new independent artists, <a href="http://furtherotherbookworks.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">new publishers,</a> <a href="http://www.raggedprint.com/" target="_blank">new community studios,</a> <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rightheelmusic/affordable-recording-studio-for-local-musicians" target="_blank">new recording studios,</a> <a href="http://mamaliberada.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">new zines,</a> <a href="http://ladyfingersletterpress.com/" target="_blank">new letterpress studios.</a> It’s been wonderful, amazing, and I can’t wait to see how far we can take this.<br /><br />The first part of a lively scene is the people doing the work. We’re getting us some people, making us some work. The second part is a place where those people can gather, to share their work with other people also gathered. To bring those “other people” (the public, let’s say) in, to let the artists already there out, to make those “other people” not “other,” but people, each belonging in their individual way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A secret group with a static membership does not grow as a community, plays no role as a group in the larger community. A place of sharing & gathering & growing/changing is crucial. One such place is on the verge of opening in south downtown Colorado Springs: <a href="http://www.mountainfoldbooks.org/" target="_blank">Mountain Fold Books.</a> (Full disclosure: I am a board member of Mountain Fold, and I believe fiercely in the project.) The description from the MFB website:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mountain Fold Books is a new kind of bookstore. We're a non-profit,
membership-based bookstore and reading room/gallery that will make
small-press books and magazines accessible to the community of Colorado
Springs and the greater Pikes Peak Region. While we have an amazing
library district and two university libraries, small-press books of
poetry and art books remain difficult to access. Our aim is to help
connect Colorado Springs to the growing art and literary communities
along the Front Range of Colorado by providing a welcoming place for the
community to gather, read, exchange ideas, give readings and see books
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are entering the last week of Mountain Fold’s first Membership Drive & Fundraiser. Success in this endeavor means that MFB will be funded until July of 2015, which means that the folks in charge can focus on making it the crucial thing that it needs to be, that this community needs, and that the small press-artists’ book-zine-print-etc. community at large needs. All of the information that you need to make your (tax deductible) donation is here: </span><br />
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<br />NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-21162058083925364172014-08-13T04:05:00.000-07:002017-02-03T09:02:08.078-08:00SAY HELLO TO YOUR LAST CHAPBOOK! j/j hastain & NOEL BLACK!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">& the second of two for today, this day, August 13, our last day of summer, not really: <i>Transister / Identity Colleges</i> by j/j hastain and Noel Black. Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! 2014, No. 5. The fifth of five books produced in the last three months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This book was made for a reading by Noel Black and j/j hastain, the fifth in the 2014 Say Hello to Your Last Poem! series, on August 9, 2014 in Manitou Springs, CO. Many hands and hearts participated, with the reading series and this book: Marina Eckler, Noel Black, Corie Cole and Aaron Cohick. […]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The covers were printed using a combination of letterpress printed lead type, chipboard and vinyl collagraphs, and digitally printed photographic images. The text pages were laser printed. All of the photographs forming the title lettering are by j/j hastain. The paper is from the French Paper Company, made with recycled content and hydroelectric power. Title lettering design by NewLights. 100 copies were made […]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jjhastain.com/" target="_blank">j/j hastain</a> is a collaborator, writer and maker of things. j/j performs ceremonial gore. Chasing and courting the animate and potentially enlivening decay that exists between seer and singer, j/j, simply, hopes to make the god/dess of stone moan and nod deeply through the waxing and waning seasons of the moon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Noel Black is the author of <a href="http://furniturepressbooks.com/books/blacklagoon/" target="_blank"><i>La Goon,</i> Furniture Press Books, 2014</a>; <i>Uselysses,</i> Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011 and the publisher of The New Heave-Ho, a new .pdf press at <a href="http://thenewheaveho.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">thenewheaveho.blogspot.com</a>. With Corie Cole, Marina Eckler and Aaron Cohick, he's the co-host of the Say Hello to Your Last Poem! Reading Series in Colorado Springs.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Transister / Identity Colleges</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! 2014, No. 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poems by j/j hastain & Noel Black</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">32 pages, saddle stapled dos-a-dos</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7” x 5.25” (closed)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Laser printed interior, laser and letterpress (collagraph & lead type) cover</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edition of 100</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2014</span><br />
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NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-79660722991332123342014-08-13T04:00:00.000-07:002015-01-28T08:48:41.894-08:00SAY HELLO TO YOUR LAST CHAPBOOK! JEN HOFER AND TC TOLBERT!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two more, the sweet last two, chapbooks from the 2014 Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! series are out today. First up for August 13: <i>Conditions / Conditioning</i> by Jen Hofer & TC Tolbert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This book is a single-spine dos-a-dos, written in direct collaboration by the two authors specifically for the format, specifically for this publication. It’s an honor to have had the opportunity to provide an opportunity (as TC said, “a space”) for these two poets to work together. And it was fun to collaborate with them on the design as well—it pushed NewLights into new (for us) territory—making a type ornament using actual font design software….</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This book was made for a reading by Jen Hofer & TC Tolbert, the fourth in the Say Hello to Your Last Poem! series, on July 29, 2014 In Manitou Springs/Colorado Springs, CO. Corie Cole helped with proofreading, and CJ Martin & Julia Drescher helped with binding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, urban cyclist, and co-founder of the language justice and literary activism collaborative <a href="http://antenaantena.org/" target="_blank">Antena.</a> Her books are available from numerous small presses, including Action Books, Atelos, Counterpath Press, Dusie Books, Kenning Editions, Insert Press, Les Figues Press, Litmus Press, LRL Textile Editions, Palm Press, Subpress, Ugly Duckling Presse, and in various DIY/DIT incarnations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! 2014, No. 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poems by Jen Hofer and TC Tolbert</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">32 pages, saddle stapled dos-a-dos</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edition of 100</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the second book of this July 10, number 3 in this year’s Say Hello to Your Last Chapbooks series: <i>Alexis, Oren & Sara’s Halves,</i> with poems by Alexis Almeida, Oren Silverman and Sara Renee Marshall.<br /><br />Because this one has three halves and thus a lack of symmetry, it had to become a traditional single signature, sewn codex. But there is still a retina-searing surprise inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the colophon:<br /><br />This book was made for a reading by Alexis Almeida, Oren Silverman & Sara Renee Marshall on July 5, 2014, part of the Say Hello to Your Last Poem! series. If only we were allowed to talk about that.<br /><br />Many hands & eyes go into each of these rapid chapbooks. Noel Black assisted with proofreading, Corie Cole helped with binding and other intangible aspects.<br /><br />This book was designed, printed & bound by the NewLights Press. The text pages were laser printed. The covers were letterpress printed from lead type and MDF/chipboard collagraphs. All of the paper is from the French Paper Company, made with recycled content and hydroelectric power. The text typefaces are Adobe and ATF Garamonds. The modular titling lettering is another variation of a design by NewLights. 100 copies were made.<br /><br />About the authors:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alexis Almeida teaches creative writing at the University of
Colorado, where she is at work on an MFA in poetry. Her translations and
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oren Silverman lives in Denver. His most recent work can be found in the critically-acclaimed chapbook <i>Alexis, Oren & Sara's Halves</i> from the NewLights Press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sara Renee Marshall hails from the southwest. She is the author of a chapbook, <i>Affectionately We Call This The House,</i> and her poems appear places like <i>Colorado Review, Omniverse</i> and <i>Octopus.</i> Sara is headed to Athens, Georgia to pursue a PhD at the University of Georgia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! 2014, No. 3 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poems by Alexis Almeida, Oren Silverman & Sara Renee Marshall </span><br />
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NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-28699861297444993652014-07-10T04:00:00.000-07:002015-02-13T11:58:55.067-08:00SAY HELLO TO YOUR LAST CHAPBOOK! CJ MARTIN & JULIA DRESCHER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today, on this day, July 10, 2014, the NewLights Press is releasing two new chapbooks from the Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! Series. The first is <i>CJ’s Half / Julia’s Half,</i> poems by CJ Martin and an essay (excerpt) by Julia Drescher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This book was designed & printed by the NewLights Press. The text pages were laser printed and the covers were letterpress printed from lead type, flexible vinyl collagraphs and chipboard collagraphs. All of the paper is from the French Paper Company, made with recycled content and 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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This book was made for a reading by CJ Martin and Julia Drescher on Saturday, June 21, 2014, as part of the Say Hello to Your Last Poem! reading series in Colorado Springs, Chris and Julia’s new home. It seems that with each book our star-cross’d crew grows, and we are so grateful: folded, collated and stapled by Marina Eckler, Noel Black, Corie Cole, Aaron Cohick, CJ Martin, Julia Drescher and Natalia Jaeger. Thank you for reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">C.J. Martin is the author of <i>Two Books</i> (Compline, 2011), as well as four chapbooks: <i>2012</i> (Supersuperette, 2013), <i>Unused Cover</i> (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2013), <i>1978</i> (Self-published, 2010); <i>WIW?3: Hold me tight.</i> Make me happy (Delete Press, 2009); Lo, Bittern (Atticus/Finch, 2008) and CITY (Vigilance Society, 2007). For the past two years, he has been working on broadside collaborations with poets who do visual art. His essays and reviews have appeared in <i>ON: Contemporary Practice, Jacket2, American Book Review,</i> and elsewhere. He lives in Colorado Springs, CO, and works as a bookbinder. With Julia Drescher, he publishes <a href="http://furtherotherbookworks.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Further Other Book Works. </a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! 2014, No. 2 </span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poems by CJ Martin & and essay Julia Drescher</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OUT OF PRINT</span><br />NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-49540160311037178292014-06-11T04:00:00.000-07:002014-06-11T04:00:00.631-07:00A JAB AT THE HEADS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The newest issue of <a href="http://journalofartistsbooks.org/current/index.php" target="_blank"><i>JAB (The Journal of Artists’ Books),</i></a> #35, has a short, thoughtful paragraph (& a color photo!) about <a href="http://newlightspress.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-heads-of-my-family-my-friends-my.html#.U5fTqi9RHQw" target="_blank"><i>The Heads of My Family, My Friends, My Colleagues,</i></a> by <a href="http://secondarysound.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Justin Sirois,</a> in the “Books Received” section. The mini-review was written by Columbia College Chicago MFA student & Print Production Fellow <a href="http://www.lsdgraphics.com/" target="_blank">Levi Sherman.</a> This issue of <i>JAB</i> is pretty phenomenal—it is mostly artists’ books, six of them, to be exact.<br /><br />Here is the full text on <i>The Heads:</i><br /><br />Justin Sirois has a knack for writing with, about, and for digital technology, so it is a pleasant surprise to see NewLights Press adapt his new book of poems <i>The Heads of My Family, My Friends, My Colleagues</i> to a letterpress printed codex that is perfectly suited to the content and style of the writing. On each page, black type is framed by dizzying, RGB-colored pixelesque patterns constructed out of en quads. Eight-bit tiles are knocked out of these borders, and like the poems themselves refer to online communication in their style, though the text itself also holds explicitly to the conventions of writing on the web and on cell phones. The book is as surprising as the poetry it contains, including blind embossed verses set on the interior spine fold—a thoughtful use of the double pamphlet structure. The book evokes a reading experience similar to browsing online—a schizophrenic, rhizomatic tour of sex, politics, pop culture, and everything in between, The writing, first-person and conversational, is engaging and holds the book together despite the breadth and obscurity of topics. This is a book that knows its audience and speaks powerfully both to and about them. (LS)<br /><br />Thanks Levi! Thanks <i>JAB!</i></span><br />NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-25540128246760927112014-05-19T04:00:00.000-07:002015-05-05T08:41:17.871-07:00SAY HELLO TO YOUR LAST CHAPBOOK! DIVYA VICTOR & MATHIAS SVALINA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />From the colophon(s):<br /><br />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. <br />
<br />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 <i>were</i> 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.<br />
<br />About the authors:<br /><br />Mathias Svalina is the author of three books, most recently <i>The Explosions</i> from <a href="http://www.subitopress.org/" target="_blank">Subito Press.</a> <a href="http://www.biglucks.com/" target="_blank">Big Lucks Press</a> will release his book <i>Wastoid</i> in 2014. He is an editor for <a href="http://octopusbooks.net/" target="_blank">Octopus Books. </a></span><br />
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<br />Divya Victor is the author of <i>Things To Do With Your Mouth</i> (<a href="http://www.lesfigues.com/" target="_blank">Les Figues,</a> 2014), <i>Partial Derivative of the Unnameable</i> (<a href="http://trollthread.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Troll Thread,</a> 2005) <i>Goodbye John! On John Baldessari </i>(2012) and <i>PUNCH</i> (2011) from <a href="http://www.gauss-pdf.com/" target="_blank">Gauss PDF</a>; and the chapbooks <i>UNSUB</i> (2014), <i>Hellocasts by Charles Reznikoff by Divya Victor by Vanessa Place</i> (2011), and <i>SUTURES</i> (2009). Her book <i>Natural Subjects</i> is the 2014 winner of the Bob Kaufman Award, selected by Anselm Berrigan and is forthcoming from <a href="http://www.tremblingpillowpress.com/" target="_blank">Trembling Pillow Press.</a> Her poetry, poetics, and criticism have appeared in <i>Dusie, Journal of Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies, Crux,</i> and <i>P-QUEUE,</i> 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 <a href="https://jacket2.org/"><i>Jacket2.</i></a><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just keeps on coming, going. Yesterday, May 5, 2014, was the "observed birthday" of the NewLights Press. 14 years old now. Always unbelievable, always a kick in the gut as I think about all of the work that still needs to be done. Writing-reading of which, here are some announcements about things upcoming:</span><br />
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<br />NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-40496778624721923012014-02-11T04:00:00.000-08:002014-02-14T08:57:27.848-08:00CONTEST!!! NAME OUR SOON-TO-BE JOURNAL OF ONE WORD POETRY, FICTION, & NON-FICTION<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the firstish big NewLights Press plans for Year 14 is to launch a journal of one word poetry, fiction and non-fiction. First step: an awesome name for said awesome journal. & that’s where you come in, reader. Submit your ideas for names via email to newlightspressATgmailDOTcom, or by messaging us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/newlightspress" target="_blank">our Facebook page.</a> [Ed. Note: I don’t see contact info for comments to this blog, hence the submissions via email & FB.] We will post submissions periodically as they roll in below in updated versions of this post. We can’t guarantee a winner will be chosen from the submissions, but if there is a winner, that person will get a free lifetime subscription to the journal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UPDATE: The full sale of all NewLights Press items ended on Monday, 10/14/13, but the flood broadsides shown below will continue to be sold, and all of the money from those will continue to be donated. The sale has been successful. Thank you to everyone who participated & supported.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The floods that ravaged the state of Colorado a few weeks ago were widely reported in the news. The waters have since receded, and the headlines are focused on other matters. But the work of rebuilding and mitigating future disasters is long and arduous, and help is still needed. The recent, massive wildfires across the state have left many areas extremely vulnerable to flooding, and it will likely be decades until the burn scars return to normal, with vegetation that can hold the soil together and ground that can absorb water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So in that spirit the NewLights Press is excited to announce the 2013 DELUGE OF AWESOMENESS SALE. For the next four days, until 12 AM on Monday, 10/14/13, all money from the sales of any NewLights Press item will be donated to flood relief and mitigation efforts in Colorado, both <a href="https://www.unitedwayfoothills.org/floodrelief" target="_blank">up north in the Boulder area</a> and here in <a href="http://www.ppcf.org/products/manitou-springs-emergency-and-recovery-fund" target="_blank">the Pikes Peak Region.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And of course there is a new, featured item in the sale: a limited edition letterpress printed broadside, written, designed and printed by a group of students at <a href="http://pressatcc.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Press at Colorado College.</a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2013 Colorado Flood Broadside</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can view the rest of the available <a href="http://newlightspress.blogspot.com/search/label/Catalog#.UlWMtCSE5GA" target="_blank">books here</a> and <a href="http://newlightspress.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadsides#.UlWMyCSE5GA" target="_blank">broadsides here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thank you for reading, thank you for your help.</span>NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-20918753028753533942013-07-08T04:00:00.000-07:002015-05-05T08:43:02.357-07:00SAY HELLO TO YOUR LAST CHAPBOOK: ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS & ANSELM BERRIGAN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">About a year ago, I wrote about how happy I was that <a href="http://thenewheaveho.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Noel Black</a> & I started <a href="http://newlightspress.blogspot.com/2012/09/we-had-reading-here-in-springs-on.html#.UdoDxFNQ2yw" target="_blank">a reading series here in the Springs.</a> Now, I am even happier to announce that we are also doing a chapbook series in conjunction with those readings, and the first one is out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s a small, dos-a-dos book with new poems by <a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/about/people/anna-moschovakis/" target="_blank">Anna Moschovakis</a> and <a href="http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/anselm-berrigan" target="_blank">Anselm Berrigan.</a> The poems in the book were written sort-of-collaboratively by the two poets: they came up with a list of titles and then chose to write poems using titles from that list. The book itself is simple, rough & ready, and in many ways marks a return to the fast, ephemeral productions that took place in the early years of the NewLights Press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the colophon(s):<br /><br />The interior pages were printed on a home laser printer and the covers were letterpress printed from vinyl collagraph blocks and lead type. All of the paper is from the French Paper Company, 100% recycled and hydroelectric. The text was set in Adobe and ATF Garamonds, and the titling type is a modular face designed by NewLights. 100 copies of the book were made. <br /><br />This book was made for a reading by Anna Moschovakis and Anselm Berrigan on Friday, July 5, 2013, as part of the Say Hello to Your Last Poem reading series. The book was folded, collated & bound by the Say Hello to Your Last Poem 3rd Battalion, 22nd Armored Division: Marina Eckler, Noel Black, Corie Cole and Aaron Cohick, stationed in Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">About the authors:<br /><br />Anna Moschovakis writes and translates from the mountains of upstate New York and sometimes from Brooklyn. Her most recent books are <i>You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake</i> and <i>The Jokers</i> by Albert Cossery, which she translated from the French. She teaches at Pratt Institute and is on faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She is also a long-time member of the Brooklyn-based publishing collective <a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/" target="_blank">Ugly Duckling Presse.</a><br /><br />Anselm Berrigan is the author of six books of poetry, including <i>Notes from Irrelevance,</i> and <i>Skasers</i> (with John Coletti). A new chapbook, <i>Sure Shot,</i> has just been published as a little magenta thing by Overpass Books. He is the poetry editor for <a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/" target="_blank"><i>The Brooklyn Rail</i></a> & lives in New York City, where he was supposedly raised. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After just about two years of hard labor, we are so, so excited to announce that the new book of poems by long-time NewLights author <a href="http://secondarysound.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Justin Sirois,</a> <i>The Heads of My Family, My Friends, My Colleagues,</i> is out & available for purchase. Here is what some of our favorite writers have to say about <i>The Heads:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://mikeayoung.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mike Young:</a><br /><br />When you realize the new Old Spice ads might be working on you, when you're trying to split the difference between desk jobs and shoulder licks, when you're old enough for raunch to go holy but still young enough for GIFs to go infinite—that's when you know you're in the LoS of Justin Sirois's barking and bounding poems. <i>The Heads</i> are singing to the super ugly animals that pace the medians. They are twitching to put back some magic. They are winking that the word "okay" is the most useful word in the room, and they are hoping to be together with you because the only way a head gets a name is when another takes it in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.birdinsnow.com/" target="_blank">Dorothea Lasky:</a> <br /><br />The poems in <i>The Heads</i> by Justin Sirois make me feel so many things. They are not “temples,” but “squishy” things that “I love to put my face in.” I like it that way. These are poems that are part of life, constantly affirming and reaffirming it. A life that greets you with its magic. As when "What fits in the hand/ grows into armfuls." Or when you "sex this bathroom until the bathroom ain't for/ bathing no more." Everywhere is the “imagery” of life that “repeats in heaps of beauty." These are also poems that are part of the digital America we live in now and so they make that alternate existence beautiful. I hear echoes of Walt Whitman, Eileen Myles, and Blake Butler in these poems. I hear echoes of old folk songs. Most importantly, I hear the breathing of an indefatigable <i>I </i>in these lines. One that is living and listening. Let's follow it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://caconrad.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">CA Conrad:</a><br /><br />“The tattoo / underneath the tattoo / speaks the language I want to learn.” Justin Sirois has always been one of my favorite living poets. “You have / everything you need / when you’re naked”, I trust, I trust ALL his discourse with our throbbing excitement for communion. His poems are our best possible use for ears. If I don’t know you and you LOVE these poems as much as I do, let’s get together to read them out loud over a delicious slice of something. “Lick the window / & your reflection licks back” is a delicious something we all love. It’s important they know to have a copy of this book resting on my heart when they cremate me.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Heads of My Family, My Friends, My Colleagues </span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poems by Justin Sirois</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">84 pages, double signature pamphlet stitch with folded jacket</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 8” x 6.25” (closed) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Laser printing, letterpress from lead type, lead spacing material and linoleum </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Variable edition of 150 (three different jacket/cover/endsheet color combinations)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 2013 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$20 (plus shipping)<br /><br />Please note that we will not be able to accommodate individual requests for colors. The books will be shipped as orders are received—red, green, blue….</span><br />
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NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-65753017309769864582013-05-22T09:17:00.000-07:002013-05-22T09:17:20.424-07:00THE NEWLIGHTS PRESS ANALOG MAILING LIST<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The NewLights Press is currently compiling a new analog mailing list. If you'd like to receive some free ephemera (and maybe the occasional book &or other interesting things), send us an email with your name & mailing address to newlightspressATgmailDOTcom.</span>NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-82240177066438830092013-04-22T04:00:00.000-07:002015-05-05T08:44:18.828-07:00THE NEW MANIFESTO OF THE NEWLIGHTS PRESS, SECOND ITERATION<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Second Iteration of <i>The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press</i> is now officially out & available for purchase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the actual text:<br /><br />[…] Now that the book is dead we can begin to divide up its remains. There is much work to be done. They used to say that the function of the book was to transmit information. Now they say that books are no longer the best way to do that, that computers and their strange, wireless spawn are the best way. <i>They are right:</i> a handheld device that can access any text from any place does a better job of delivering information. <i>They are wrong:</i> books and the writing-designing-printing-binding-distributing-reading of them have never been solely about delivering &or receiving information. They would also have you believe that you are, first and foremost, a consumer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But the reader is both a consumer <i>and</i> a producer. The reader receives the text-book-art-object, and her reading takes it in, uses it up. At the same time she produces the text-book-art-object, putting its paths of meanings into play and driving them outward. The text-book-art-object is a unit of light, both particle & wave, energy transmitted, expended & still potential, waiting to be absorbed & re-produced in the reading. Energy creates energy. Production creates production. Production creates our shape in the world, is our shape-in-the-world in the movement-between of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our existence is a constant generating of text. We radiate text, reflect text, shed text like skin. We speak, we write. We send emails, text messages & memos. We fill in forms, we get a receipt with every purchase. Our world is bounded by, covered in, channeled through, text. The text-book-art-object is our sublime vision of the turbulent sea of language. It will be the death of us. It is our light-filled life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are only beginning to see. Let the book-in-the-world sit strangely in your consciousness, let it dissolve and disperse everything that they said you are. In this world you will be disciplined or you will be destroyed. But you have the choice: be disciplined by the tasks of what you produce, or by the tasks of the things that are being sold to you.<br /><br />What has already begun is the New Manifesto of the NewLights Press. It is a collection of thoughts on and of the book, of what it can mean to make books, to produce the book, now. […]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press</i> (second iteration)<br />20 pages, saddle-stapled<br />6.5” x 5.5” (closed)<br />Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates and collagraph<br />Unlimited, iterative edition<br />2013<br />$5 (plus shipping)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UPDATE ON 2/13/15: The second iteration of the New Manifesto is now OUT OF PRINT. The third iteration is forthcoming in 2015.</span><br />
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<br />NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711189344253333953.post-12831133237687122962013-04-21T10:41:00.002-07:002013-04-21T10:41:42.949-07:00PRODUCTION IS RECEPTION (56): THE NEW MANIFESTO, SECOND ITERATION (6)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As is not uncommon for NewLights books, the cover was the last part of the second iteration of <i>The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press</i> to be printed. The cover is almost always the last thing designed as well, and I always have to be careful not to rush through it. I’m always so much more interested in the interior (that’s where most of the work, where most of the book, is after all) and always in a hurry to get to production by the time the interior is designed. But the cover is important—it sets the stage for the reader’s initial interaction with the book.<br /><br />The cover to the second iteration is set up similarly to the pages. The title uses the <a href="http://newlightspress.blogspot.com/2013/04/production-is-reception-54-new.html#.UXQkMIJAuyw" target="_blank">modular titling type</a> (this time printed as negative space, off-white paper/letterforms against a bright medium-blue block) and a <a href="http://newlightspress.blogspot.com/2013/04/production-is-reception-55-new.html#.UXQkGoJAuyw" target="_blank">palimpsested-<i>pentimento</i> image printed by layering a hand-cut, vinyl collagraph over a halftone image printed from photopolymer.</a> And, silly me, I expected the printing to actually go like the printing of the pages—simply, smoothly. <i>Fortunately,</i> when it came time to print the collagraphs, it didn’t work out that way.<br /><br />There were, actually, some minor incidents when printing the collagraphs in the pages. I was using two kinds of blocks. One type had the adhesive vinyl applied directly to the MDF block. Those all held up beautifully. The second type, where I needed large open negative spaces and thus much higher relief on the block, used vinyl over thick chipboard, which was then attached to the MDF base. The problem with the chipboard is that it tends to come apart while printing—the layers just peel away. (One way to prevent the separation is to seal the sides of the chipboard with some kind of adhesive—I neglected to do that on these blocks.) I managed to keep the separation of the chipboard under control on the page blocks—the design of those blocks, with large, flat areas made it possible. The cover collagraph, however, had the small, repeating Stella stripes—the densest pattern in the book as a whole. It was a pain to make. <br /><br />& it started to peel apart after about 6 or 7 impressions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Initially, I fought it, tried to save it. (I was, also, of course, right up against the absolute deadline to get the covers printed & the books done for an exhibition.) It quickly became clear that it was a losing battle—as soon as one stripe was secured, another broke away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the really interesting things about collagraphs is that, generally, they are made from objects-in-the-world, real things with both 2D & 3D qualities, and all of those qualities carry through into the print. Printed collagraphs become a record of a 3D object. (All printing from a physical matrix is a similar record, but most matrices are constructed to minimize their “interference” in the printed image.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That 3D record was exactly what I saw in the prints from the degrading block. The piece of detached vinyl had moved & crumpled—it was literally printed on top of the rest of the image, and held all of its 3D properties. In the print, it looked as if the stripes in the Stella “image” were coming loose and hanging from the surface (which they were). The print oscillated between the intended, 2D articulation of the cover surface/picture plane by the stripes that were well-behaved, and the unintended, anarchic pictoriality of the peeling stripes. It was, for this book, better than I could have planned. AND because the vinyl stripes were detached, they would move with every pass of the press and print differently every time—the record would be 4 dimensional as well, spread over the edition. The only question was: would the block hold up enough, as in not peel completely away, for the entire press run? <br /><br />The loose vinyl stripes were remarkably resilient (aided by a single piece of painter’s tape applied at the base of the block). They eventually would break & get stuck in the rollers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">but overall, the block both broke apart & held up beautifully for the entire run of 250+ impressions. & I was so much happier with these new, crazy, variable, unplanned covers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">& then the next day I destroyed exactly half of those covers by carelessly cutting with the guillotine. <br /><br />So now I will try to reprint that second half, and hopefully the new collagraph block will fall apart just as effectively as the first….</span>NewLights Press: Et Al.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08649189570407683892noreply@blogger.com0