{"product_id":"barber-phil-making-verpb","title":"[11\/19\/26] Barber, Phil (ed.): Making Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Last Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 19, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about typography and poetry, the typography\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eof\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epoetry. Which is to say, it is about the ways that poets have thought about and deployed the visual properties of language. It begins from the premise that the smallest details of typographic arrangement can make legible the relationship between what a poem says and does – its sounds, meanings, unmeanings – and the physical and social processes that bear upon it. The book brings together letters, manuscripts, proofs, and other archival documents that illuminate the shadow labour of textual production (editing, typesetting, printing), particularly in experimental and small-press poetry. It prioritizes documentary sources and the words of poets and their collaborators over theoretical argument, though there is some of that too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Verse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas edited, designed, and printed in sixteen-page signatures over two and a half years, and bound in the autumn of 2026. It contains commentary on and archival material relating to Kamau Brathwaite, Karen Brodine, Emily Dickinson, Robert Duncan, Friedrich Hölderlin, Bernadette Mayer, Charles Olson, J.H. Prynne, John Wieners, and others. With contributions by Andrea di Serego Alighieri, Susan Howe, Rietlanden Women’s Office, Samuel Solomon, and Keston Sutherland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe longest entries in its index are “labour,” “line (poetic),” and “spacing (typographic).”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46086951403543,"sku":"9789491780585","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1792853014-900.jpg?v=1794180725","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/barber-phil-making-verpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}