Micah Robbins poetry & book arts
Coming Soon: Christian Peet’s THE NINES
Coming soon from Interbirth Books
Christian Peet’s THE NINES Book II: Pluto ~ Never Forget.
I’ve had this project in the works for a long (far too long) time, and I’m beyond excited to see the work into the world. Christian has shown real patience in remaining committed to my painfully slow progress (ever try watching [...]
The John Ushant Homeward Bounder
Over spring break I traveled down to Austin, TX to get away from Dallas for a bit and see some family. I also wanted to drive out to Manor, TX (pop. 1,204) to see a Chandler & Price 8×10 letterpress circa 1907 that’s been for sale on Briar Press since August ‘09. In the advert’s [...]
Invention & Discovery: 15th Century Printed Books
So far this semester I’ve had the good fortune to work with Eric White, curator of the special collections at SMU’s Bridwell Library. Every Tuesday afternoon we meet for a couple hours and look at books ranging from medieval monastic manuscripts to the world’s earliest examples of the printed word. We talk typefaces, ink, paper [...]
The Habenicht Press Channel
David Hadbawnik of Habenicht Press has just created a youtube channel for the reading series he curates in Buffalo, NY. You can currently see video of Lisa Forrest and Alex Porco reading from their work, and I’m sure that David will be keep the videos coming. Maybe we’ll even be lucky enough to see video [...]
New Interbirth Site Design
Finally, after two years, I’ve managed to update the Interbirth website. I was never happy with the old look, but I didn’t have the time to change it. Between school, raising a child, and making books, it was all I could do just to post new titles and the monthly selections. But I’m on a [...]
EMBANKMENTS: Richard Owens
New from Interbirth Books — Richard Owens: Embankments.
Seventy-five books (twenty-six of which are lettered A through Z) were designed, printed, assembled, and hand bound 100% in-house by Micah Robbins and Clifton Riley at Interbirth Books. The stitch is a buttonhole. The cover is an original screen / litho print.
43 pages — 5 1/16 in x 7 [...]
Madonna Benois
She smiles and sighs a breath that smells of herring, rice and capers. She smiles and a lone fish scale glints from between her teeth. Behind them, mother and child, a window allows a view of the sky, allows cold to fill the room and the sounds of the crowd gathered below to push them [...]
The Virgin of the Rocks
They gather at last, two mothers and their sons, to huddle beneath the rocks. They gather and introduce the boys to communion. With each other. With the wind-swept mass of spires, crude and thick with lichen. A mother and an angel, the angel a mother, and a pair of nude boys flex their fingers in [...]