SOMEWHERE IN HO & SHORT SLEEVES

Short Sleeves is Ted Greenwald's first book to follow his debut, Lapstrake (1962) from Aram Saroyan's Lines. Although printed letterpress, Short Sleeves has a the feeling of the mimeo tradition that I often associate with Tuumba (who published Greenwald's Smile in 1981), Burning Deck, Awede, and Ithaca House. Curiously, although the book wasn't published by Ithaca House, it was handset and printed in 12 point Goudy by Joan Simon in Ithaca in 1970. One favorite:


STRAIGHT ON BEARING LEFT

skies skid into Baghdad
out of my mind copied, pieced
together, studied and translated
they get their oil from a ‘well’
as likable as chinese writing systems
I grasp and share, like a popping beacon
the complete experience of the sky’s members
whose i.d. cards are clouds
(see conditions inside) adn how they bend
A lulls B into seeing D
R loves S but hates you
Z snores as Y marks the spot with X
ledge ages dawdle, and rush,
as I pull plug out, and rug E



Somewhere in Ho is a collaboration with Ed Baynard. The text of this play (starring Tree, House, and Patio) is handwritten, accompanied by terrific line drawings by the artist. Published in 1972 by The Buffalo Press.
--KS

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