This past weekend, I participated in a workshop associated with a small book arts exhibit here in Santa Fe, Handmade/Homemade. The mini exhibit features letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions and broadsides from small literary presses. As part of the workshop, I got to look at some of the books, most of them of poetry, and cleverly done. One I particularly liked was Helen White’s book Ariadne, pictured below. She’s a visual poet, and each page used some part of the body for the poem, while the transparency kept the coherency of the figure. More pictures of books from the exhibit are here and here.
