Hailey Higdon You Read My Mind You Read My Mind

Hailey Higdon is poet of the week this week. I've been trying to figure out a way to display her chapbook, HOW TO GROW ALMOST EVERYTHING, an adorable book that features a very warm photograph of her on the cover. Made by Agnes Fox Press, the book is 8 1/2 x 11. Jared suggested that we lay the book down on our table at the Brooklyn Flea, but that took the fun out of making the perfect bookstand for Higdon's book!

So I used this tutorial, but sized down the dimensions a bit. Size seems to be key with Higdon's book; her playful brevity sweeps across the page. She is particularly inventive with repetition and her poems develop a music that is both earnest and something else. She writes:

we advance to the edge and the edge is as edge is, also flimsy

bending

day bending day

that we bend to

and it is also flimsy

I spent most of the day yesterday making the book stand and then while I was reading the book outside (in the sun!) a man from the New York Post took my photo. Berl's will be selling Hailey Higdon's book this Saturday and Sunday, March 19th and 20th, at the Brooklyn Flea. Come out and support a great press and one of their fine poets!