024 | Patti Smith | Revised

Cover #24 for Patti Smith's "a small entreaty" gets a make-over. An early booklet in the series, published April 2001, one month after Poems-For-All began. Some of my early design foibles can be seen in that early design below, particularly with respect to color. (What's with the slate-grey background? And the multi-colored text.) The new cover features a photograph by Gareth Owen who kindly made it available for uses like this via the wikipedia website.

Early in the Series I had a habit of "publishing-in-homage" which is code for "using someone's poem without permission." Thanks to Robert R. Byler, who maintains a Patti Smith collection of Publications at Mills College, Mrs. Smith will be sent copies of these new booklets. So she'll at least know what others are doing to her words. My hope is she'll allow me to keep making them.