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...initiates of the press is Sarah Hulsey '01. Hulsey is a Linguistics concentrator, but she has always been attracted to the art of books. When she was a child, her mother used to entertain her by sewing pages together on a sewing machine. Hulsey's current projects, however, are much more advanced. She is collaborating this semester with poet Susannah Hollister '01 in creating a broadside of poems. In the spring, armed with a grant from the OFA, they will also print a book of ten to twelve of Hollister's poems in an edition of about fifty copies...
...flat on the bed of the press, where the text is meticulously spaced out and held together by flat strips of metal called 'furniture'. The arrangements of this spacing material form the almost invisible choices of margin and indentation--these are the most crucial work of the printer. As Hulsey puts it, in setting a line of a poem the difference between its looking right and looking wrong is sometimes less than half a point. A few assembled stanzas laid out this way glimmer like distant, crowded constellations. Then the cylinders, wheeled into action by the big arm-crank, roll...
...Hulsey is deadly serious about her work. She feels that, because the experience of reading is affected by what the page looks like, the process of printing a book is deeply collaborative. The poet's choices and the printer's choices run across a hazy boundary, each fundamentally changing the finished product. Hollister's choice of a stanza break is determined by Hulsey's choices of physical spacing...
...Because of the complex and painstaking nature of printing, student work takes the form of a sort of one-on-one apprenticeship with the Adams House tutor in charge of the press. Hulsey is working now under the mentorship of Katherine McCanless, a non-resident tutor in Adams House. McCanless is unabashedly passionate about the literature she loves to print and insists on working "from the text out." Her own recent projects include the printing of eleven lines from a new translation of 'Beowulf' by Seamus Heaney. McCanless has been delighted with the enthusiasm of her students, but laments that...
Adams House students Jessamyn A. S. Conrad '00,Sarah M. Hulsey '01, Susannah L. Hollister '01,Nilizandre Elizabeth M. Gilbert '99, Meeghan H.Piemonte '99, Layton and Johnson assisted Echelmanin the creation of the sculpture...