Bloof

So Bloof is really an expansion or extension of what I'd been doing all along.

Shanna Compton, Poem and Conversation Lemon Hound 2008

I like the way the word sounds, and the look of the double o's in both words--"Bloof Books"--and that its personality is not fraught, overrefined, or frou frou.

Shanna Compton, Poem and Conversation Lemon Hound 2008

Bloof was set up in such a way so that I can be really flexible, yet not overextended.

Shanna Compton, Poem and Conversation Lemon Hound 2008

Anyway, re: feeling supported…the response to Bloof so far has been very supportive, I think.

Shanna Compton, Poem and Conversation Lemon Hound 2008

I'm going to keep doing the handmade chapbooks and watercolor-printed broadsides under the Bloof label, along with the perfect-bound books.

Shanna Compton, Poem and Conversation Lemon Hound 2008

And because I was already in the process of establishing Bloof, I decided not to worry about sending it out, or go through that second-book publisher search that can be such a pain.

Shanna Compton, Poem and Conversation Lemon Hound 2008

But Meritage Press is so full up with existing obligations and time just got away....which is all to say that I'm delighted to see that she has a book coming out anyway, from the prescient Bloof Books: Warsaw Bikini.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

But Meritage Press is so full up with existing obligations and time just got away....which is all to say that I'm delighted to see that she has a book coming out anyway, from the prescient Bloof Books: Warsaw Bikini.

ECLECTIC TICS VIZ POETRY-BUYING 2008

Not coincidentally, the other two books Bloof has announced so far are also second books, by poets whose first books I edited at Soft Skull.

Shanna Compton, Poem and Conversation Lemon Hound 2008

All Bloof needs is the support of its authors and their readers, and hopefully, a few reviewers.

Shanna Compton, Poem and Conversation Lemon Hound 2008