Mather Schneider
The Rattle Foundation
Studio City, CA
(c)2018
I should have learned this lesson long ago when my daughter, who could speak but hadn't started reading yet, pointed out an unforgivable error in a children's book. There was a page in which the text read "five violins" but there were only 3 violins shown on the page. She was not having it.
As a publisher I have attempted to wed book titles and content with a cover image that "worked" with everything else for over 25 years. This cover does not succeed.
This chapbook was the 2018 Chapbook Prize Winner but that doesn't excuse this apparent slap-dash cover image. The poetry is okay but I can't separate the cover image from the content.
I am certain my opinion has no bearing in the career of this writer or Rattle, just stating it for the record.
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