How does Cuneiform differ from that press?
“There was a great deal of freedom to do whatever I wanted [at Goddard]. Then when I came to Buffalo, at Robert Creeley’s invitation, I decided to make it more exclusively a poetry press. I started doing chapbooks and broadsides for various readings in town and published a lot of local authors, as well as international. I kind of think of Cuneiform’s official home being Buffalo.” What’s your favorite project that you’ve done? “I think the Book of Closings was one that really meant a lot to me. It was the first artist book I did. It used the correspondence between Robert Creeley and Irving Leighton, who have both passed on since I’ve done the project, so the idea of it being a book of closings has this other resonance now. But initially what I had done was gone through their complete correspondence and transcribed all the closings—‘see ya later,’ ‘best regards,’ ‘sincerely,’ etc.—and removed the author’s name. You get an idea of how the relationship evolved, from things that you would p
