In the last few months I've received a formidable pile of books and magazine
for review, in exchange for _Gig_s, etc.: some very interesting items
(including a stack of Clark Coolidge from The Figures which will keep me
reading till doomsday), but I thought I'd unburden myself here of my dismay
at the prevalence of Small Press Typo Disease. One recent publication I
received has provided a minor diversion in that I'm still trying to find a
page without a typo among its over 100pp--and this is sad, as it's otherwise
a fine & important book. -- I guess I'm perhaps a bit pernickety, but I
would hope that small-press publishers, who obviously are sticking their
necks out more than commercial publishers in taking on projects, & have the
(unpaid) resources to get things exactly right, would take greater care with
their publications. This isn't entirely a trivial affair: I'm willing to
bet that the impact of important books like _Floating Capital_ or the Irish
anthology issued as _Angel Exhaust_ 17 has been affected by their numerous
typos, & that's a considerable shame. And I can just imagine what an author
as fastidious as Thomas A Clark thought when he looked at the back of his
_Tormentil and Bleached Bones_, & started reading the blurb: "The rythmns
and details...." it begins.
End of fulmination: I'd better go back to readign some boks. --N
Nate & Jane Dorward
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