magscostello: AY. what. is. this?  and where might i obtain a copy?  cpfffr: Two variations of “Poem That Had Some Difficulty With the First Line” by Mikael de Lara Co. 2011 (Advanced Book Arts) These accordion books are both letterpress printed on Rives BFK paper with the text of Mikael de Lara Co’s “Poem That Had Some Difficulty With the First Line” and linocut illustrations for each three-line stanza. One is printed on clean white paper; the other is on monoprinted paper that gets progressively darker—nearly approaching unreadibility—as the poem nears its end. As accordion books, they both may be read page-by-page or displayed stretched out to their full length. AY, indeed. Anyayare?! fun factz: when i was wee lass of 17, i posted a copy of this poem on my livejournal because i was all profound angst and ooopoetry. the next day, i get a comment from the poet himself, saying, “naligaw lang dito, sa di malamang kadahilanan. (sige na nga, iginoogle ko ang sarili ko, na ginagawa naman ng lahat ng tao, siguro, sana, di ba?).” tas yung reply ko: “hala, fangirl scream,” and other embarrassing things which do not bear mentioning—and so i will just link you to them: http://fourthmotionsky.livejournal.com/27433.html#comments kahiya amputa, hahahaha. THE MORE YOU KNOW, Monday edition. 
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magscostello:

AY.

what. is. this? 

and where might i obtain a copy? 

cpfffr:

Two variations of “Poem That Had Some Difficulty With the First Line” by Mikael de Lara Co. 2011 (Advanced Book Arts)

These accordion books are both letterpress printed on Rives BFK paper with the text of Mikael de Lara Co’s “Poem That Had Some Difficulty With the First Line” and linocut illustrations for each three-line stanza. One is printed on clean white paper; the other is on monoprinted paper that gets progressively darker—nearly approaching unreadibility—as the poem nears its end. As accordion books, they both may be read page-by-page or displayed stretched out to their full length.

AY, indeed. Anyayare?!

fun factz: when i was wee lass of 17, i posted a copy of this poem on my livejournal because i was all profound angst and ooopoetry. the next day, i get a comment from the poet himself, saying, “naligaw lang dito, sa di malamang kadahilanan. (sige na nga, iginoogle ko ang sarili ko, na ginagawa naman ng lahat ng tao, siguro, sana, di ba?).”

tas yung reply ko: “hala, fangirl scream,” and other embarrassing things which do not bear mentioning—and so i will just link you to them: http://fourthmotionsky.livejournal.com/27433.html#comments

kahiya amputa, hahahaha.

THE MORE YOU KNOW, Monday edition. 

Source: cpfffr