Hooker Van Dusen. John Dancy-Jones. Illustrated by David Larson. 1985. 40 pp perfect bound chapbook. $5.00 order
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Performance Poems
28 pp foldout chapbook with hand-laid letterpress cover. $5.00.
John Dancy-Jones is a teacher, writer, and small press publisher who has presented his poetry in various venues since his seven year stint as facilitator and emcee for an open mike series that took place in downtown Raleigh from 1983-1990.
Snapper, My Life with Snapping Turtles
Snapper, My Life with Snapping Turtles. John Dancy-Jones. 2001. OUT OF PRINT
Snapper cards and prints available below.
Snapper card and envelope
Linoleum print on hand-laid paper with deckle envelope. $4.00 @.
Baby Snapper. Mixed ink single linoleum print on hand-laid paper. $8.00
Garden Snapper
Garden Snapper. Mixed ink single linoleum print on hand-laid paper. $8.00
available at the Paper Plant website. order
Snapper, My Life with Snapping Turtles
Written, illustrated, and physically produced by Paper Plant editor John Dancy-Jones
Snapper is an essay on snapping turtles in captivity, expressed in words and images. It is also the culmination of twenty five years of book arts and alternative publishing. The ten linoleum block prints are executed on handlaid recycled paper made with an English laid mould and comprising six different pulps. With just under a thousand words of text set in 18 point Palatino and 24 point Schoolbook, letterpress printed on twelve sheets of handlaid paper, and Japanese side-bound with linen thread, the chapbook itself becomes a work of art that serves to complement its content.
ISBN 0-929170-15-6 $45.00
Snapper Soundbites
You continue to amaze with your lovely papermaking projects. Snapper is a highly personal but still widely educational chapbook.
Fred Chappell
N.C. Poet Laureate
It’s a beautiful thing, a great cover, a wonderful text, and handsome throughout. It reminds me, in its straightforwardness, of the recently published Wild Fruits of Henry David Thoreau.
Denis Wood
author of The Power of Maps
My Fifty Top Influential Books
In rough chronological order of their influence on me. Most pictured above.
The Thinking Machine. Jaques Futrelle.
Adrift In a Boneyard. Robert Lewis Taylor.
The Lion’s Paw. Robb White.
Fire-Hunter. Jim Kjelgaard.
Chessman of Mars. E.R. Burroughs.
The Time Machine. H.G. Wells.
The Great Imposter. Robert Crichton.
Birdman of Alcatraz. Thomas E. Gaddis.
Mulata. Miguel Angel Asturias.
The Pearl. John Steinbeck.
The Jungle. Upton Sinclair.
Brave New World. Aldous Huxley.
Darkness At Noon. Arthur Koestler.
Steppenwolf and Siddhartha. Herman Hesse.
Letters From Earth. Mark Twain.
Hiroshima. John Hershey.
Death Be Not Proud. John Hershey.
The Tolkien Reader. JRR Tolkien
The War with the Newts. Karel Capek.
Grendel. John Gardner.
The Odyssey. Homer (Robert Fitzgerald).
The Aeneid of Virgil. Allen Mandelbaum.
Premier Book of Major Poets. Anita Dore.
King James Bible.
Funeral Rites. Jean Genet.
Nausea. Jean Paul Sartre.
The Web and the Rock. Thomas Wolfe.
Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. Louis Fischer.
Middlemarch. George Eliot.
Hard Living On Clay Street. Joseph T. Howell.
Hitler: a Study in Tyranny. Alan Bullock.
The Viking Portable Neitzsche.
Does It Matter. Alan Watts.
Be Here Now. Ram Dass.
The Cost of Discipleship. Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Bhagavad-Gita.
Report From Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace. Anonymous
Steps to an Ecology of the Mind. Gregory Bateson.
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. Paul Fussell.
The Rhetoric of Fiction. Wayne C. Booth.
On Poetry and Style. Aristotle.
Critics and Criticism. R.S. Crane.
Caleb, My Son. Lucy Daniels.
Waiting For Godot. Samuel Beckett.
Nadya. Andre Breton.
Orlando. Virginia Woolf.
Midquest. Fred Chappell.
The Woman at the Washington Zoo. Randall Jarrell.
The Collected Works of billy the Kid. Michael Ondaatje.
The Journal of Albion Moonlight. Kenneth Patchen.
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honorable mentions: Treasure Island, Tolkien’s Trilogy, A Book of Heroes by Heiderstadt, God’s Little Acre by Caldwell, Catcher in the Rye, Nigger by Dick Gregory, All the King’s Men, Call It Sleep by Henry Roth, Chaim Potok’s The Chosen.
Please do leave a comment. If you have a list, I’d love to see it!
John Dancy-Jones
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John Dancy-Jones Book Arts Biography
Having developed a large book collection and an intense interest in books, I went to work at UNC-G’s Jackson Library in 1977. As adminstrative assistant my time was flexible, my activities highly varied. I gravitated to the Special Collections Department, headed by Emmy Mills, and became friends with Charles Adams, Library Director Emeritus. Dr. Adams taught me how to use the Washington Press owned by the department and encouraged my early papermaking experiments. By the end of 1977, I was producing good quality recycled papers and had ordered my first press – a versatile flatbed with high and low block positions, a type chaise, and a forgiving hard rubber roller.
My papermaking developed out of a backyard project with my first wife, Nora. we used screens from her silk screen course and dried the sheets right on the screens. I was immediately captivated by the possibilities. Early on, most of my paper was board or glass dried – essentially an Asian technique. I contacted numerous paper mills in North Carolina, sending them samples of my paper and inviting input. Several answered back and sent large samples or scraps of various felt materials. I obtained lye and worked with some natural materials, but settled on developing a process for making utilitarian printmaking paper out of high quality scrap.I began ordering cotton linters, building equipment, and building up stock. I bought a laid mould from Bartram & Green in England for 35 pounds. About this time, I ordered fonts of 10 and 18 point type – Palatino, Stemple type from Germany (ordered from NYC). I prepared to do some serious letterpress projects.
In 1980, I left Greensboro and Jackson Library to return to Raleigh and get into the bookstore business. I managed one for two years, then bought their shelves when they closed and opened The Paper Plant in downtown Raleigh, NC in 1982. Used books in the front, papermaking and letterpress in the back. Over nearly nine years, The Paper Plant became an unofficial book arts center and a home for Raleigh’s alternative arts as well. Early in its history, I picked up a Kelsey 3×5 letterpress from a local print shop who had used it with a tiny mechanical matrix to print numbers and emboss serration on to football tickets! Once The Paper Plant was established as a community resource, the studio gained a wide variety of press equipment and type.
Starting in 1983, I edited and published a series of broadsides, folders, and chapbooks, mostly involving the local writers emerging in our open mike series. After The Paper Plant bookstore clsoed in 1990, I established residential studios for most (but not all) of the book arts equipment I had amassed. In 2001, I culminated my use of those studios with the production of Snapper, a book physically produced by the author.
my book arts display at Cameron Village Library
The Paper Plant Bookstore and Press
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The Paper Plant was a bookstore and book arts center in downtown Raleigh from 1982-1990. John Dancy-Jones was owner and operator. He is editor of The Paper Plant as small press publisher.
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The Paper Plant Press publishes broadsides, folders and chapbooks using handlaid recycled paper and letterpress printing in conjunction with current desktop publishing technologies. From 1983-90, the Paper Plant bookstore sponsored a weekly open poetry series, and many of the chapbook authors emerged from that setting. Twenty published titles include award-winning alternative literature, a fine arts calendar, and a children’s book. Many of our writers regularly feature as performance poets. We seek to present an alternative take on the publishing process, looking for non-academic, even non-literary influences, in a search for poetry as an oral art, in a belief that poetry is an essential and multifarious expression of life.
John Dancy-Jones, Publisher, Printer & Papermaker
The Paper Plant
P.O. Box 543
Raleigh, NC 27602
(919) 839-8277
