My anthology
for Tender Buttons, A Sensational Read, is a richly tactile experience to reinforce the sensory sensations of reading a book. The
slip jacket starts the empirical journey for the reader with the luscious
leather slip jacket. Under this silky smoothness is the contrast of the cover,
which has the rough friction of heavy artist paper. The spine is lined with a strip of leather to
tantalize the fingertips after a journey across the paper desert. In contrast
to the paper of the cover the interior pages are of a thin smooth paper that
glide under the fingers. Flashes of yellow alert the reader to diagrams of the
central nervous system.
The size changes that break words into their phonetic
hierarchy create undulations for the reader’s eyes to follow and to create a
visual and auditory rhythm. The line spacing between lines reinforces the
rhythm. Words flow across page cracks and around page edges to make a flow of
text. After finishing the poems the reader finds the DVD which has on it two
kinetic type videos of poems from the book. The DVD’s top is also lined with a layer
of smooth leather.
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