Teeth by Hale Chatfield (1967)

 Teeth

Hale Chatfield

New/Books

Trumansburg, NY

(c) 1967

36 pages. There's a spine with actual lettering on it. Cover and title page by Walter Wanger. Good writing, nice presentation. 

Konglomerati volume III number 1 (1976)

 Konglomerati (volume III Number 1)

Konglomerati Press

Gulfport, FL

(c) 1976

Konglomerati was a magazine of visual poetry, irregularly printed, out of Gulfport, Florida. It billed itself as "visual poetry" but what that most seemed to mean is that it was poems presented on mixed media and their definition of mixed media was "scrap paper". 

This is not a chapbook but a small collection of individual pieces of paper with poems on them in a uniquely folded paper folder which I have to say is the most intriguing element to the whole presentation. 

color in the cheeks by bitsy sanders (2013)

 color in the cheeks

bitsy sanders

self published

(c) 2013

Full disclosure : I briefly attended York College of Pennsylvania where Ms. Sanders graduated from. That said, I did know the difference between a "chapbook" of less than 40 pages and a book of 68 pages, which is what this book has. It has a spine with no writing on it - but why? If a book is thick enough to have a spine, then have the title and author's name on the spine for goodness sake. How is a person supposed to KNOW what that bit of color on the spine IS ? 

This is not a chapbook. This is also not a completed thought. This is a shotgun wedding without a preacher. This is a signed copy of a book that the signee parted with - this is an example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should". 

a tree was wasted to make this - hopefully another was planted to replace it.