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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Carin Goldberg Design (Stanfordville, New York)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997
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Hal Sirowitz’s poems are droll, funny, nutty, and often touching. His writing style is completely dry and straightforward. Somewhat anti-stylistic. I felt the type should look generic and non-designed without losing the soul or voice of the author. The image of “Mommy’s purse” found in a ’50s Sears catalogue seemed the right period for the mother in Hal’s poems. Metaphorically it represented the psychological baggage between mother and son that the author so humorously portrays.