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Subject: TYPESETTING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CANONICAL, by RODNEY JONES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My first chandler & price letterpress must anchor a tug now
Last Line: That stand for silence, nothing so filthy as a word
Subject(s): Antiques; Typesetting


COMPOSED IN THE COMPOSING ROOM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At state ic. Times
Last Line: Well, not on you ^eotype
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Typesetting


FINE PRINT, by ROBERT N. FEINSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To avoid an unpleasant contractual surprise
Last Line: Read the pring even closer, the finer the size
Subject(s): Law And Lawyers; Typesetting


MARGINAL DIFFERENCE, by HENRY G. FISCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: For those of us who wonder how one knows
Last Line: That it's, as printers say, unjustified
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Typesetting


PRINTER, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baskerville, perpetua, garamond
Last Line: On heaviest mohawk superfine
Subject(s): Printing And Printers; Typesetting


PRINTERS' BIBLE, by KEVIN MCFADDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who sits the type? Proof
Subject(s): Typesetting


THE PRINTER, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baskerville, perpetua, garamond
Subject(s): Printing And Printers; Typesetting


TUNE IN, AMERICAN TYPE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, to be set and printed in
Last Line: Squeezed flat from british pulp. He non- %ny nonny, etc
Subject(s): Books; Great Britain; Printing And Printers; Typesetting