Book By Its Cover

7.7.09
Barrie Tullet & Philippa Wood

This book “documents corrections made by the editors, translators and contributors to How to Address the Fog: XXV Finnish poems 1978-2002. Published in 2005, the original went through five amendments. This book documents those changes. Only the corrected text, the marginal notes and the proof-readers’ marks remain…” What an interesting concept for a book! I am reminded of my youth when my papers for school would come back with a hundred red marks correcting my grammar. Except these are symbols I hardly recognize. They almost look mathematical when so many are clumped in a section- some sort of code. Sometimes I forget how much work a piece of good writing takes. Revisions after revisions. This is the part we never get to see. Get a copy here. (More books from The Caseroom Press soon!)
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2 Comments
07/7/09  11:46am
Beth wrote

How cool! I recently came upon a FREE book I picked up years ago from a bookseller….it’s a book of Most Used Army Terms in Shorthand. If you are like me, you’ve never had to write in shorthand or ever seen it until I found that book. It’s fascinating….so many scribbles that look like nothing but apparently you can write Commander Army General with a loop and a squiggle.


07/9/09  8:15am
julia wrote

haha that sounds cool Beth!



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