Rope-a-Dope Press: July 2007

Friday, July 27, 2007

The Manila Broadsides / July Edition

The first set of Manila Broadsides are here! Thanks to artist Anna Trzaska for the beautiful silkscreens, and to Shafer, Cecily, and Ravi for the poems. Ravi-shing. We couldn't be happier.

Cecily Parks, "Self-Portrait Which Makes Use of the Beaufort Scale"

Ravi Shankar, "Fourier and Moore"

Shafer Hall, "Graduation Night"

All broadsides are 11"x13" on Rives BFK. The text is 12-18 pt Caslon, handset in metal type and printed on the Vandercook at Rope-a-Dope Press.

Individual broadsides are $15 a piece and include the cost of shipping.

Buy all three for $30.

Next month: Dan Boehl, Dan Hoy and Gina Myers with broadsides by artist James Weinberg. Visit the So & So's blog for details.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Project South Paw

Project Southpaw enlists American communities in the creation of notebooks to be offered to those without access to their own paper products. Participants learn basic bookbinding skills as they design and bind two notebooks from recycled paper bags. At the close of each workshop, one notebooks is collected from each participant and sent to a community in need.

These notebooks were made by Robert daVies.

Projects

Rope-a-Dope Press produces handbound editions of comtemporary poetry, fiction, and artists' books, incorporating letterpress and recycled materials. To view and purchase books, visit the Rope-a-Dope Press blog.

The Golden Gloves Chapbook Series began in 2009 with our first guest editor, Chris Tonelli. Together with Rope-a-Dope founders Robert daVies and Mary Walker Graham, each guest editor will publish three chapbooks: one solicited, one through open submissions, and one his/her own.

In collaboration with The So and So Series, The Manila Broadsides were published once a month in letterpress printed limited editions. The broadsides were debuted monthly at the So and So Series readings, held in Rope-a-Dope's studio at The Distillery. To view the broadsides online, click here.

The Jungle, a hard-cover, handmade anthology of the first 18 Manila Broadsides, was released at the end of January 2008. The Jungle features 18 poets and 6 artists, as well as some pretty tricky sewing, for which one needs 6 needles and some stuff you don't even want to know about. The Jungle can be found in the Boston Public Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the University at Buffalo's Poetry Collection. SOLD OUT

The second hard-cover anthology of Manila Broadsides, titled Split Decision, was completed in the autumn of 2009. 3 COPIES REMAINING

Projects to Date lists the various organizations with whom we have collaborated. The results have been several exhibitions and fundraisers that have incorporated the mechanical creativity of the letterpress.

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The Manila Broadsides / July Edition

Friday, July 20, 2007

Project South Paw

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