“POETRY HAS LEFT THE POEM” BROADSIDE: PHASE DELAMINATION

The other big “?” of this project was the delamination: a process of cutting into (but not through) the sheet of paper and peeling away its surface. I have done a fair amount myself (in books and broadsides) but I have never asked anyone to help me (though I have taught it and seen those students succeed at it). But it is tedious. And strange. And this was the first large project that I was asking my new apprentices to help with. I would not have been surprised had there been a mutiny. One mistake I did make in planning was not realizing how slow the process goes when someone is first learning. But our brave crew stuck to it, and we completed the edition.