Jenn's post reminded me that I want to hold a chapbook party. Everyone brings enough copies for everyone else at the party, exchanges happen. We all get a lovely library of original art. Maybe in January? Sound like fun?

As to whether book 17 is art or just book 1, I'd have to say that all the books are equally part of the process. Nevermind the fact that the numbering is an imposed system well after most of the work has been done. I think part of the bookmaking is standing at the press and cranking it fifty times in a row just to get one page spread. And then while your shoulder starts to hurt, setting up the next spread, or breaking down type, or checking to see if the ink is dry yet, or moving the leaves around the studio to keep out of the way of other artists. I'm not sure the reader can see all of that when they pick up the chapbook, but it's there in every impression.

I really haven't much else to add. It's been a long week. It's been a long season. I'm off to the mountains in a couple days; maybe I'll be a lot more productive there.