An incidental expression of “Pied Beauty,” Gerard Manley Hopkins’s influential poem, is captured in the waste of a letterpress printer’s fine edition. In this book, printer Andrew Steeves and poet Christopher Patton explore how the “graphic bycatch” of a printing process is in sympathy with the antiphonal form of Hopkins’s poetics, how “the formed world in all its mixedupedness is intelligible–you’ve just got to set your mind right.”

Andrew Steeves, of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, is the co-publisher of The Gaspereau Review and a partner in Gaspereau Press. Poems from Cutting the Devil's Throat have appeared in literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Queen#&39;s Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, and Canadian Literature.

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Christopher Patton is a Canadian poet living in the United States, where he teaches courses on ecopoetics and visual poetry at Western Washington University. His asemic visual poetry has been shown at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and the Whatcom Museum. Patton’s books include Ox, whose first section won the Paris Review’s long poem prize, and Curious Masonry, an earlier volume of Old English translations. He blogs at theartofcompost.com.

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