This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovid's epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdal's characters changed not by divine intervention but by both ordinary and extraordinary human events. For the cover title I used an old standby, Futura Extra Bold.Nightingale is a book about change. It is a challenging book, and in spite of all of my efforts to weave these parts into a continuous whole, it takes a while to figure out just what is going on. And for the author, Paisley Rekdal, the real narrator’s voice, I chose the standard Calluna roman.
For his Crow Indian assistant, Alexander Upshaw, I chose a more rugged looking Calluna Sans Bold. Buivenga had designed the very popular Museo, and I knew that his design would be solid. I found the perfect tool with Dutch designer Jos Buivenga’s type families Calluna and Calluna Sans. And write some poems about it too! Oh, and don’t forget to show lots of Edward Curtis’s photographs! Typographically, I wanted a strong type family with enough variations in the individual fonts to represent each of the different voices. The other artist was his assistant Alexander Upshaw, a member of the Crow who had suffered Americanization in the infamous program of “indian industrial schools.” Finally, the author, Paisley Rekdal, a first generation Chinese-American, would write an account of her own experience of the challenges of racial integration in modern American society.
One is Edward Curtis, the famous photographer of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The life of two remarkable artists working at the turn of the twentieth century. Each of these voices would need to be in a distinctive type face, as this would be the only identification we would give that the narrator had changed.
And to make things more challenging the novel is narrated by two different voices and is interspersed with the author’s autobiography. I appreciated the warning! This is a unique book, part poetry book, part book of photographs, part novel, part autobiography. Jim Schley, the managing editor at Tupelo Press, ema iled that he had saved a challenging manuscript for me to consider for my next book design project. Upshaw blinks, the small lights swimming in his eyes.” His mother nudges him, tells him they are home. When he blinks he is startled to find what seems to be a ring of smoking cones beside them, dark shapes of tethered horses, swaying fires. Intimate “A sudden curve in the forest, and a wall of black rock rises before them.
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