I had a professor who had his own letter press printer in his garage. He said a poet whose work he was publishing was helping put the book together and the work of picking out each letter from its tray and arranging it and getting his fingers dirty and all that changed the poet's thinking about his poetry. Suddenly words that seemed essential were expendable.
Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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I had a professor who had his own letter press printer in his garage. He said a poet whose work he was publishing was helping put the book together and the work of picking out each letter from its tray and arranging it and getting his fingers dirty and all that changed the poet's thinking about his poetry. Suddenly words that seemed essential were expendable.
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