garth graeper
greying ghost
(c) 2013
I have always admired what greying ghost did and the way that they presented work, and shipped their books with odd ephemera. I scored a number of these "not-broadsides, not-books" from them somewhere along the lines. Good stuff.
The Pilgrim Press
New York, NY
(c)1983
Happy little booklet. Illustrations by Gloria Ortiz. It's a tiny tiny. And I have to found some poetry chapbooks right quick.
Wal-Mart Visitors Center
Bentonville, AR
date uncertain
This is an oversized self congratulatory bit of propaganda that I am including here since it's a staple-bound "booklet" filled with zombie capitalism at its worst. How much does the Walton family avoid in taxes? Why are employees of Wal-Mart dependent on Medicare and Medicaid?
I have not shopped in a Wal-Mart in 23 years (who said I am counting?)
Hugh and Judy Gowan
Daisy Productions
Martinsburg, PA
(c) 1983
Staple bound booklet showing "lighter moments" of the US Civil War with B&W photos. um - okay
Clark Wissler
Guide Leaflet No. 50
American Museum of Natural History
(c) 1927 , 2nd edition
This is a beautiful booklet that I found to be handsome, informative, and charming - especially how they called it a "leaflet". But it also is an interesting relic in the sense that it is a booklet about Native people's crafts and craftsmenship written by a white man less than 30 years after the Wounded Knee massacre that makes the end of the "Indian Wars" in the United States. The booklet almost bleeds with irony.
John Moseley & W A Dunagan
(c) 1948
Full disclosure : I have been to the Carlsbad Caverns. It's amazing and claustrophobic and I refused to go back for the evening event - that being the thousands upon thousands of bats who flew out of the cave entrance to do their night hunting. I don't like bats.
I also did not get this gem at the time, I happened across it much more recently at a local library donation drop. It was too handsome to disregard, so I brought it come with me. It really is an amazing tiny staple-bound booklet with information and B&W photos and illustrations; really, what's not to like?
Lauri Otonkoski
duration press
(c)1999
Number 12 in their series. Translated from the Finnish by Anselm Hollo. Some interesting design features in this one.
Flying Object
flying-object.org
Hadley, MA
(c) 2014
This is a unique piece. Although it contains but 2 poems, it's a fold out. Meaning that when it is completely unfolded opened to its maximum size is roughly 3 feet by 4 feet. With images. Created by Flying Object. Very cool. Interesting as heck.
Habib Tengour
Translated from the French by Pierre Joris
Duration Press
Sausalito, CA
(c) 1999
Another in the series of International poets in translation published by Duration in 1999, with afterword by translator. #7 in the series. Unpaginated.
