LS: Found Poetry

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From the galley I finished reading today:

Epigraph to come, flush left, ragged right
x 14 picas, center unit on longest line

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7 thoughts on “LS: Found Poetry”

  1. I’m sorry. Being the print advertisting layout and type fixer-upper that my career demands – I can’t find the poetry inherent. Maybe it’s all the overtime this week after they let good people go. I think the correct term is that I’m grateful to still have a job in Michigan…but at times it grates greatly on my nerves. Maybe I should run away and join the budding film industry in my state.

    Speaking of Michigan – why no stops in Ann Arbor this time? If you remember me, I’m the goof that asked you to say “Rosebud” into my phone video. Well, our son Connor is 9.5 months old (I have a website if you’d like to see pics) – but no novel as of yet. Having him was waaaay easier than the eternity it’s taking to try to birth a book (and more fun too!).

  2. Heather,

    Given that it’s a galley, it’s not an error, just a place-holder, so it’s not indicative of anyone not doing a job, just of materials not yet filed. Usually, such a page says only “tk,” but “ragged right” always sounds like poetry to me.

    As for Michigan — Dang, this is a big country! I always go to Pittsburgh, out of loyalty to Mary Alice Gorman and Richard Goldman (Mystery Lovers Bookshop) and New York is hard to miss, but I think the only other city I’ve visited twice in three years is Phoenix. Maybe Seattle. I would love to return to Ann Arbor and would happily say just about anything into a phone video.

  3. Oh, no – it didn’t read like an error…just like work. The “to come” leaves one exasperated because after years in the biz – the cynical comes out and you just know that whatever is “to come” will inevitably be wrong the first time (or sometimes the second or thrid) – it won’t be the right size (or length), color or resolution…etc. and you’re on hold. The rest are just instructions – but upon re-thinking – the ragged right sounds correct politically. As well as Left Justified, Centered or even Align towards Spine. Heh.

  6. Andi, “TK” stands for “to kome” (that is, “to come”). Editors often misspell the phrase in manuscripts and galleys so it doesn’t accidentally end up getting typeset and printed. It’s often seen abbreviated.

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