Recycled or Plastic Paper?
At breakfast in a Paris café on the rue de Buci (with free WiFi) I’m not yet rid of New York. Reading the Times I came across an interesting, if somewhat glib, article on the use or non-use of recycled materials in the book industry. Interesting to note that it is Jack Schumacher’s North point Press that does the most avant-gare attempts at chaning the materials for book making. You can read it here.
I for one wish they could invent lighter materials for books. In four days of book shopping in Paris, I have already accumulated more than I’ll be able to easily fly back with. Will have to mail packages again, which ain’t cheap.
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“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Hi– there’s an insightful article about this, too, in the july/aug issue of Print magazine. If you’re traveling and must pick up light reading material for the plane, I recommend it.
Aren’t you allowed 70lbs on international flights? 4 days of book shopping’s put you over that? Tsk tsk. They have invented one lighter material for books, that is, the ebook.