About

The Least Weasel Chapbook Series was launched in 2011. The covers were printed letterpress from polymer plates by Karen Randall. Cover designs, with the exception of two done in collaboration, are the work of Karen, who also painstakingly hand-bound the editions. (That is to say, she is still sewing them in batches of 10-25.) Editions of the first two series are 250. Series Three is currently in production.

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"My poetic interests range from procedural / chance operations to text-sound-texts; from the typographically playful à la Armand Schwerner's tablets to the philosophically playful à la Rosmarie Waldrop; poetry infused with the physicality of earth pigment frescos (ochre, sienna, umber, chromium green oxide) to poetry of geologic upheaval or slow sedimentation; from jazz improvisations to the lewd & lascivious (especially if the sensuous and vulgar involves a good deal of ‘word’ sauce).


In short, I am generally open to the possibilities and permutations (combinatorics and quetzalcoatl cohosh excesses). Poetry is a language game which I invite you to play!"


Karen Pava Randall