Rope-a-Dope Press: March 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Speech Acts:

Rope-a-Dope Press will be exhibiting a number of works at The Dudley House at Harvard University on April 3rd including book covers from an ongoing collaboration with Sarita Cartonera, whose beautifully crafted one of kind books will also be displayed. Opening night gala starts at 8pm. For more information, check out Dudley House.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

the Jungle goes to New Orleans

Thanks to a beautiful gesture by Casey Yancey, the JUNGLE is heading down to The New Orleans Public Library. For more information about this program, check out Better World Books.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Ding! Ding! Book 2

Kate Schapira's Case Fbdy. is now available for purchase. The paperback edition is $9, includes shipping.

Case Fbdy. was printed in an edition of 96, of which the first 12 are limited hardback copies. The cover art was designed by Mike Dacey.

Hardback edition is $18, includes shipping.

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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