A Pocket Book of
Forms
A Pocket
Book of Forms is a letterpress-printed, travel-sized guide to poetic forms, a
reference to be used on the train, on adventures, or when a small book is all
that's needed. It covers some usual suspects—sonnets, pantoums, ghazals,
blues—as well as an assortment of French repeating forms, among others.
The book was printed by
the author at Penland School of Crafts. The text is set in Bembo and
Twentieth Century, with hand-drawn headings, and printed on Legion Bamboo paper,
with covers in Canson Mi-Teintes. The standard edition offers three cover
options: pink, brown, or blue. The fancy edition has orange covers, hot-pink title text overlaid with
faux gold leaf, and hot-pink lokta endpapers. It includes a bookcloth slipcover
for safekeeping. Both editions are pamphlet stitched, with rounded corners.
“This book is the best reason to
go out and buy anything with pockets—especially if you are a poet. Elegantly
designed and printed, it is a portable prompt and expander of your repertoire
of poetic forms.”
—Thomas Cable, author of A History of the English
Language
About the author:
Anna Lena Phillips is a poet, teacher, editor, and maker. Her other projects include the endearments, a group of anagrammatic poems, and Forces of Attention, a series of letterpressed objects designed to help people mediate their interactions with screened devices.
A Pocket Book of Forms is
available for preorder through April 15, 2014, at Indiegogo—
—and thereafter at its permanent home:
Now I'll have something useful to keep in my pockets!
ReplyDeletePositively Baggins-ish!
DeleteIf at some future point, my nephew will be requried to carry this book to the mouth of a volcano, I will want my money back!
DeletePerhaps he will only have to carry it to a sweet, flowery meadow! With a few stray spiders...
DeleteVery pleased that a few writers ordered a copy today! Thank you.