"I love chapbooks. I love reading in small bites. I love the affordability
and the art and love put into them. No one is starting a chapbook press because
they want to make money. It’s purely for the love of the art...Fiddle was a long series poem at first, and then it evolved into a
chapbook manuscript – and then I wrote for another year and it grew into a full
length manuscript. After sending it out and getting a lot of honest feedback... I cut it
back down to a succinct chapbook manuscript. I thought it would be neat to see
a handmade chapbook for this manuscript with a small press and I was lucky that
it won the contest with Blood Pudding Press. The editor, Juliet Cook, makes
really lovely
handmade chapbooks and I’m so happy with the finished
product. It seems like something that is true to the art. I also created the
artwork for the cover. It’s a combination of images from a children’s nursery
rhyme book from the nineteenth century. Hidden in the scroll-work are the names of my
husband and daughter, and the blackbird is homage to Blood Pudding Press’s
journal, Thirteen Myna Birds."
from part of a new interview of Lauren Gordon, about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" - conducted by Lizi Gilad at THE VOLTA BLOG
read more of the interview here - https://thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/interview-fiddle-is-flood-lauren-gordon/
buy the chapbook here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/227601065/new-fiddle-is-flood-by-lauren-gordon?ref=shop_home_active_20
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