Notes: | "Curb is a series of poems documenting the assaults and murders of Indian-Americans and Indian immigrants in public spaces in the United States ... Designed and printed by Aaron Cohick ... 90 pages, double-sided accordion book with sewn-in sections ... Clamshell box...made by Further Other Book Works ... The text is letterpress printed from photopolymer plates. The images are rubbings made directly from sidewalks and curbs"--Publisher's website. "The typefaces used in this book are: Kohinoor Devanagari and Kohinoor Gujarati, designed by Satya Rajpurohit and published by Indian Type Foundry; and roman and italic Filosofia and various weights of Mr. Eaves XL Sans, designed by Zuzana Licko and published by Emigre. All of the type was letterpress printed from photopolymer plates. ... The rubbings were made from sidewalks and curbs, first by hammering the damp sheets of paper onto the concrete with a brush, then rolling them with screenprinting ink. CC students Nicole Leung and Jessica Zhou did most of the rubbings."--Colophon. "The paper is Somerset Book Wove, in heavy and light weights. The endsheets are from the French Paper Company, and were printed with a fabric collagraph. The cloth of the covers was painted with gesso and printed from photopolymer. ... The text was written by Divya Victor, specifically for this format. Aaron Cohick designed, printed, and bound the books. Corie Cole assisted with proofreading and logistics. Thirty copies of this book were made. Ten of those were reserved ... Those reserve copies are numbered AP1, AP2, and so on. The rest of the edition is numbered 1-20."--Colophon.
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