 Sierra Suite By Josh Hockensmith Pittsboro, North Carolina: Blue Bluer Books, 2017. Edition of 10. 5.5 x 6"; 24 pages. Text handset in 12-point Typewriter & 10-point Caslon type and letterpress printed onto Rives heavyweight paper using a Vandercook SP-15 proof press. Two-sewn-as-one pamphlet binding. Letterpress-printed covers, featuring a relief print from a carved piece of Davey book board. Signed and numbered by the artist. Josh Hockensmith: "'Sierra Suite' is a chapbook of 'found oral' poems I composed during a training session at the library where I work. We were being trained to use a new software called Sierra, and I was struck by how much of the presenter's language was about authority and control, who grants you the rights to do things in a digital environment, and how we present ourselves more generally. Taken out of context, her words resonated with me. "While this is a straightforward poetry chapbook, I consider it an artist's book project because I intend to produce other editions of the poems in radically different formats, as an exploration of how different physical presentations of identical poems can affect their reading and reception."
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