Ive Seem To Have Gone Blind

What is that? 

Well it is one of the covers of my first poetry collection. 

This is my thanks, to those strangers who purchased it.

Lingering in my thoughts is gratitude, 

 The fact is that there are a majority of my peers who are always

frustrated with my work, and nit-pick at my word choice.

Yet perfect strangers exist out there

 who acknowledge

what I have created.

So this is my thanks!

My second collection will soon be back on those shelves. 

This will be updated.

Oh and a really big thank you to Katherine Martinez, the shopkeeper of http://sbbookshop.wordpress.com/ located in Palm Springs.

For the first bookstore to lend me a shelf.

Dance Me Through The Panic Till I'm Gathered Safely In

The collection is here!
 If you get a chance stop by The Fine Art of Design and visit Stacked Bookshop, located inside the shop if you wish for your copy. There is only five, yikes!

 The Un-Included Introduction, If You Will


There always is this yearning, almost dirty desire to be read and to be enjoyed. A sort of exploited desperation that exists within a writer when commissioned to create a collection. It seems almost necessary to title it i seem to have gone blind as well as cover it with headless naked women. Each poem dedicates itself to the idea that "the image of undistorted nature arises only in distortion, as its opposite." Nothing here can be claimed as fact, but nothing can be claimed as fiction.


I was told that this experience is something I will look back on and feel relief. And it really is a beautiful thing, in the way that beauty can be sick and intrusive. As for the recent pieces of poetry, a million thanks, dear Ireland. Finishing this collection brings me the release, the only path of escape. In the process during which I wrote the recent poems, I felt I did not create enough. But now I can remove myself and peer at what I did create, and although it is not much, I created something internally worthy for myself. For what has been created is exactly how I want to remember it.

The Art of Bookbinding

Bookbinding Instructions

Supplies
1. Bookbinding glue
2. Ruler
3. scissors and/or x-acto knife
4. letter opener
5. pencil
6. cardstock or fancy thick paper
7. wet-media heavy weight multi-purpose paper
8. no bookbinding press? use encyclopedias, phone-books, heavy square rectangular objects~

What to do?

First you need to print out what you want to bind. I printed things on one side, folded the page in half and glued the inside hamburger style pages together, to create a thicker feeling page. Use a letter opener or the x-acto knife to score the folding process. Caution, let these pages sit and dry. When in doubt use the ruler for any cutting of the paper! Double Caution, some pages depending on its linear insides may have to be done on the opposite side of the page.

A  :   B

may really need to be

B  :   A

Next, cut out cardstock to cover the pages, as a book cover would do.

- then put one encyclopedia on flat surface,

- put the cardstock down

- put the pages face down on the cardstock

-insert glue, using a cottonball on the folded spines of the pages

- put other encyclopedia over and press for a while

Then, 

- remove top encyclopedia

-put more glue on the spine

-and fold the cardstock to cover the book 

-put encyclopedia back on top

let this sit for a good while

You, can also then add the canvas like paper, cut it out just like the cardstock and glue it on

Paint on this, or do whatever!

The finished product,

Why this bookbinding post? 

Right now I am making a collection of five books all titled,

I Seem to Have Gone Blind

combined with a series of different flower-women on the covers.

I have been asked to do something that I have been desiring to do

for the longest time, and it is to put a collection together

however I wish!!

Please check out StackedBookshop (click here)

for the series is going on sale over there!!!

Support independent bookshops!!

(this one is super rad because it carries "books, print: vintage, rare unusual" ! )

Stay tuned for the rest of the series!!