What to Count

Description:	Alousi, Alise (author)Parkel, Sara (printer) Letterpress with linoleum cut. Edition of 40.This broadside is from the collection of a historic suite of hand-printed literary broadsides which are a part of the Al-Mutannabi Street Starts Here broadside project at the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at the FAU Libraries. This project comes from the gut. When I first read about Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here I was immediately drawn in by its sincerity. It is an opportunity to create something positive out of an event that encompasses much more than the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, but expresses the impact of war and occupation on a personal level, giving voice to the Iraqis themselves, a perspective long overdue to be heard. Bombs, medicine, and aid falling from an open hand give hint to the poem, What to Count by Alise Alousi, which poignantly asks, what matters? In reference to war and life, what is important? And to whom is it important? Using wood and linoleum for the images allowed me to respond with immediacy to the poem. The title and text is printed via wood type and photopolymer.
Origin:	2007
Created By:	Alousi, Alise; Parkel, Sara
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher:	Filter Press (Brooklyn, New York)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1580
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	broadsides letterpress printing art

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