I wish every book I read had this consideration for surface

and if I have my own press someday, my books will have it.

Someone posted a link to this interview with Anne Carson. It's a few years old but it parts of it refer to what I assume is Nox.


Photo by Tony Cenicola

In surfaces, perfection is less interesting. For instance, a page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains. Because the tea stains add a bit of history. It’s a historical attitude. After all, texts of ancient Greeks come to us in wreckage and I admire that, the combination of layers of time that you have when looking at a papyrus that was produced in the third century BC and then copied and then wrapped around a mummy for a couple hundred years and then discovered and put in a museum and pieced together by nine different gentlemen and put back in the museum and brought out again and photographed and put in a book. All those layers add up to more and more life. You can approximate that in your own life. Stains on clothing.

Thinking a lot about texture lately--both on surfaces and in text.