Springtide Press ~ Washington
(Jessica Spring)

The Orchard
By Saadi Yousef
English translation by Khaled Mattawa
Tacoma, Washington: Springtide Press, 2007. Edition of 55.

14 x 17.5", single sheet. Letterpress printed on Japanese paper in Legend font.

This broadside printed by Jessica Spring was a result of the Al-Mutannabi Street Broadside Project. The project was "A Call to Action for Letterpress Printers! To protest & commemorate the bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street, the centre of bookselling in Baghdad, on March 5th 2007."

Jessica Spring: "The Orchard by Saadi Yousef suggested a beautiful, ephemeral place to me. For this piece I chose some impossibly delicate Japanese paper, probably not intended to print on but rather to wrap up ceramics or something more utilitarian. Combined with an Art Nouveau wood border, the color, fragility and occasional papermaker's tears seemed just right for the poem. For the type I used Legend for its calligraphic feel, though I wrestled over the choice – the font is seen so much on everything even remotely Arab, especially menus. That's part of how I read the poem though, as a memorial to a place we have changed immeasurably."
$40

By Jessica Spring
Tacoma, Washington: Springtide Press, 2006. Edition of 43.

11 x 15" single sheet. Printed letterpress in red and blue.

Jessica Spring: "Sharpen your wits and counter the spin until the next election by finding hidden words or phrases like 'misunderestimate."

Find hidden words or phrases such as Abu Ghraib, Bin Laden, blood for oil, blue, bushisms, Brownie, chad, FEMA, friendly fire, Gore, Halliburton, IED, liar, misunderesetimate, NSA, neocon, no bid contract, propaganda, red, religious, spin, Saddam, taxcuts, torture, WMD, and wiretap.

"LIAR" is circled to get you started. [Hint: No matter how long you look for WMD, the search will be fruitless.] or the blind. epress/s/springtide-Polite-Pointer
$30

Polite Pointers
By Jessica Spring
Tacoma, Washington: Springtide Press, 2004. Edition of 20.

7.5 x 14.75" broadside letterpress printed in 5 colors. Works with 3-D glasses (not supplied).

Text: "Gently tilt the head in the direction of indication, raising the eyebrows for helpful emphasis"; "Use a subtle finger rounding the nose in the direction of indication, as if to relieve an itch"; "Shield the wielded pointer behind a newspaper or your opposing palm in the direction of indication."
$75 (Three copies remaining)