Neon in daylight is a
great pleasure, as Edwin Denby would
write, as are light bulbs in daylight(Frank O’Hara)
And so, I thought as I opened the post this morning, are pamphlets.
Here is what arrived: Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo’s A Happiness, from Intergraphia, a new small press whose first series of pamphlets combines text and graphic work.
Capildeo’s poems, with their live cartoons lurking in and around the page corners, happily made me think of Stevie Smith’s sideways self-illustrations, and more generally about the pleasure of small press publishing which makes a printed artwork of a set of poems. So I put two others I admired last year — by Wayne Holloway-Smith and Tom Pickard — in the winter sunlight while it lasted.
More on each one here:
A Happiness: https://intergraphiabooks.wixsite.com/intergraphia/buy-here
Lobsters: https://makinabooks.com/lobsters/
Scribblyjack: https://soundeyepress.wordpress.com/scribblyjack-2022/