Making Sense
Binding
exposed spine coptic binding
Collaborators
- Guillaume Métayer: writing
- Max de Carvalho: writing
- Marina Skalova: writing
- Sabine Huynh: writing
- Laura Cesarco Eglin: writing
- Alta Ifland: writing
- Andreas Unterweger: writing
- Brian Henry: writing
- Eugene Ostashevsky: writing
- Forrest Gander: writing
- Ottilie Mulzet: writing
- Pierre Vinclair: writing
- Linda Maria Baros: writing
Dimensions
84 x 15 x 5 cm closed
Edition
1 of 1
Materials
Book board, Arches and hand dyed hanji, linen thread, cord and tape, archival Epson and Sennelier inks, neodymium magnets.
Making Sense is the third project of the collaborative series Passages of Babel
Thirteen award-winning poets/translators wrote a text inspired by the word
sense
as defined in the Dictionnaire des Intraduisibles - Dictionary of Untranslatables
The book is set in Adobe Caslon, Minion Pro, Nueva Std, and digitally printed on Arches paper. Hand dyed hanji and Arches. Exposed spine coptic binding. One of a kind. 2026
"After Babel aspires to reach philosophers of language, historians of ideas, scholars of poetics and the arts and of music, linguists, and, most obviously, translators. But it solicits the interest and pleasure of the general reader, of all those who love language, who experience language as formative of their humanity. Above all, it addresses itself, in hope of response, to poets. Which is to say to anyone who makes language live and who knows that the affair at Babel was both a disaster and—this being the etymology of the word ‘disaster’—a rain of stars upon man."
George Steiner