Printers and Proofs

“Proof”at Planthouse gallery in New York presents the work of three master printers and publishers: Leslie Miller (The Grenfell Press), Ruth Lingen (Poote Press), and Jennifer Melby. Printers’ names are not generally household names. There are a handful—Aldo Crommelynck, Stanley William Hayter,

Two Palaces at Four A.M.

Duncan, a Bottom-headed monarch, writes an autobiography. Regret wells. An underling composes a letter to the king’s former lover, who is a bogle.1 In the letter, pomp and reminiscence alternate until, finally, desperate entreaty breaks through. Reading the epistle, we