i'm not much of fetishist. things are just things. but i say that then find myself drooling over the books of new zealand poet-printer alan loney, via his website electio editions. his books are meticulous and gorgeous, and way out of my price range. the only affordable publication i can find of his is a chapbook produced by cuneiform press (scroll down to see it), a manifesto on the art/craft of printing.

often loney's books are collaborations with visual artists. check out the photos of these beauties. i love how the texts are shaped and shape the white space of the page, language enharmonic of the images at the opposite side of the books. i don't have any of loney's books at hand, i'm just marveling at them from the distance of the pics on the web.

for more loney, here's a reading at kelly writers house, an excerpt of his manifesto, and another extremely dear production.