Bound: The First Array

by Shanna Compton (editor)

Volume One Six Chapbooks by Six Poets The first in our series of annual compilations, The First Array collects and reproduces the six chapbooks first published as limited-edition handmade objects by Bloof in 2013. Color photographs and b&w illustrations. Jennifer Poems Are the Only Real Bodies Pattie Scenes from the Lives of My Parents Kirsten Windowboxing Hailey Packing Jared This Is What It Is Like to Be Loved by Me Becca Nonstop Pop

196 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2015

About the author

Shanna Compton’s most recent book is Creature Sounds Fade, published by Black Lawrence Press in November 2020. She is also the author of Brink (Bloof, 2013), For Girls Other Poems (Bloof, 2008), Down Spooky (Open Book Award Winner, Winnow, 2005), and several chapbooks. Her poetry and essays are widely published, appearing in Best American Poetry, the Nation, American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere.

Shanna works as a book designer for independent authors and small presses, and creates visual art as a printmaker and collagist. She lives on the Delaware River in Lambertville, New Jersey.