Richard Hell : uh: flip movie dance alphabet peepshow toy enigma boring book

Richard Hell : uh: flip movie dance alphabet peepshow toy enigma boring bookuh by Ernie Stomach was first published in 1971 by Genesis : Grasp Press in New York. Stomachs aim was a version of the Roman alphabet in which the glyphs correspond in their differentiations to lower case block lettered forms, but stripped to the naked elliptical minimum so that they would be not only sexy, but hard to distinguish from each other (facilitating misreadings and forcing the reader to pay attention). The letterform contents of that book

the poems are very serious indeed

Charles Alexander

Drucker's graphic art engages with organic materials

Insightful

Facilitated by Drew Matott and Kyle Schlesinger

The type is from the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection

and impractical at the same time

The fonts (Palatino and Michelangelo) were designed by Hermann Zapf

the anthems and hums all equally active

a weekend or more with these poems

mind and language

but Jim Dine’s Collected Poems has pulled me temporarily out of blurb retirement