Trawling My North Shore Mind

Trawling My North Shore Mind was completed in November 2006.
It is made completely out of handmade paper. The text sheets are a natural hue,
and the endsheets and covers are colored orange, and blue, using blended pigments.

All writing, artwork, printing, and binding was done by Sara Owen. The book has thirteen colorful reduction
linoleum prints, as well as a 4-color cover. The text was letterpress printed in Bell 12 point, using metal type
cast at the Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler. The book has an exposed sewing on the spine,
(a double pamphlet) using yellow linen thread.

65 copies, 8 x 5.5 inches, 32 pages, $175


			Trawling My North Shore Mind was completed in November 2006. It is made completely out of handmade paper. The text sheets are a natural hue, and the endsheets and covers are colored orange, and blue, using blended pigments. All writing, artwork, printing, and binding was done by Sara Owen. The book has thirteen colorful reduction linoleum prints, as well as a 4-color cover. The text was letterpress printed in Bell 12 point, using metal type cast at the Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler. The book has an exposed sewing on the spine, (a double pamphlet) using yellow linen thread. 65 copies, 8 x 5.5 inches, 32 pages, $175
	Click on a thumbnail to view the full page spread. "The word trawl is a fishing term. It means to fish with a net that drags along the sea bottom to catch fish. In a more modern usage, it means to sift through large volumes of data, looking for something of interest. In this book of poems and stories, I sift through a life of memories on the North Shore of Boston, and this is my catch."