The hope is, with each proofreading session, every error will be caught. Um…no.

It’s like they multiply while you’re not looking. Those stray commas. Them extra spaces. Those O’s mistaken for o’s.

Anyway, caught all of ‘em this time for sure! I swear! And back to the printer. Ready to order the 250 copies for the PARTY!!

Come to the party and you’ll see how perfect the book is.

We spent a good amount of time going through the pages, checking for errors, and mostly staring at it from all angles. To paraphrase our dear friend Michelle in New York, it is beautiful and perfect. (Okay, there was one slightly misaligned page that we instantly corrected, but still perfect!)

Today I’ve been sitting here, feeling sort of sick with this nasty cold that’s been going around forever. We’d also received a box of books from Amazon yesterday and I thought I’d start on one of them, the new Junot Diaz novel.

But I didn’t. Instead, I’ve been reading through Kim’s book, poems that I feel like I’ve read a thousand times each over the past two years or so of editing. And I am amazed that even now, each poem feels so new, as powerful and original as the first time I held them in my hands.

Next: ordering the first batch of copies and getting the word out to local press!

Wish us luck.