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Presenting: The Mockingbird’s Song

May 05

MeredithBookmaking, Design, Poetry, Writing 4 Comments

As you are surely aware at this point (because I haven’t stopped talking about it for almost a month), my thesis project required me to write, design, and hand-make a book. It’s been quite a learning process, but I’m mostly done, with 30 copies just waiting to be hauled to the reading this Friday.

I plan on sharing the “making of” the book in a later post, but for now, The Mockingbird’s Song by the numbers:

• 3 years of writing
• 39 poems
• 30 copies (in a run that I may extend to 40, depending on interest)
• 15 pads of 14×7 drawing paper cut into 600 pages
• 3 pots of glue
• 10 brushes totally destroyed
• 1,440 inches of linen thread
• 1 handpainted water color egg

More photos of the book can be found on my flickr site.