Book Arts

Book Arts & Design


 

Guest People

Guest People is a debut collection of poetry and prose by Lisa Usani Phillips, forthcoming from Wheeling Tern Books in 2022. Design work by Julie Phillips Brown includes custom cover and interior.

 
Inside Cover, The Book of Hours. Design with Gretchen Berkman & Jess Whyte.

Inside Cover, The Book of Hours. Design with Gretchen Berkman & Jess Whyte.

THE BOOK OF OURS

The Book of Hours is a collaborative risograph zine designed and compiled by the students in the Summer 2021 offering of The History of Artists’ Books Since 1950 at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.

 
Cento for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2019

Cento for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2019

PRAISE

“Praise” is a cento broadside in honor of Bob Hass and Marilyn Nelson, & their Sewanee Writers’ Conference workshop members D.M. Aderibigbe, Graham Barnhart, Tegan Daly, Hannah Dow, Natalie J. Graham, Jackson Holbert, Andrew Koch, Edgar Kunz, David MacRae Landon, James Davis May, Derek Nobuyoshi Otsuji, Jayme Ringleb, Jane Ellen Seitel, Callie Siskel, and Laura Sweeney

 
Hand-bound chapbook

Hand-bound chapbook

IMMEMORIAL

Immemorial is a visual and poetic meditation on the form, signification, and history of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, as well as the history of the conflict in Vietnam and its cultural aftershocks for both nations.

 
Hand-bound chapbook

Hand-bound chapbook

RHETORICAL THEATER

Rhetorical Theater is a chapbook of serial poetic fragments in three parts. The fragments allude to a dialogue between two figures and the linguistic aporia that characterize their relationship.