Letterpressed book of poems/songs accompanying the album Night Palace by Mount Eerie.
One time edition of 2000 books: 5.5" x 6.5", 52 pages, Smyth sewn, heavy soft cover with letterpressed dust jacket
In the summer of 2024, this text was cast in hot metal using a linotype machine and printed on the presses of Stumptown Printers & Craft Printing House Clatskanie, Ore.
The font is Electra, regular and cursive designed by William Addison Dwiggins in 1935
Night Palace was born from the Joanne Kyger poem of the same name
Empty Paper Towel Roll and I Spoke With A Fish and Stone Woman Gives Birth To A Child At Night get some of their ideas from Dōgen’s Mountains And Waters Sutra
Co-Owner Of Trees takes its title from an unfinished novel found in the notebooks of Geneviève Castrée
Demolition points to the poem Mother Night by Jim Harrison, and to Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin, and quotes the poem After Bamiyan by Gary Snyder