{"id":2387,"date":"2011-01-07T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T21:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2011-01-07T16:43:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T21:43:56","slug":"10000-page-book-bound-at-conservation-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2011\/01\/07\/10000-page-book-bound-at-conservation-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 page book bound at Conservation Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Celebration of Iowa City being named a &#8220;City of Literature&#8221; by UNESCO, \u00a0 Dr. Alphabet (Dave Morice) sponsored by Sackter House Media\u00a0has completed\u00a0his largest, longest, world-record breaking poetry marathon by creating a 100 volume work of 10,000 pages in 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>The marathon\u00a0was a highlight of a four-month exhibit at the University of Iowa Main Library honoring the history of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and the Actualist Poetry Movement.\u00a0 The full text is available online at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowacitypoetrymarathon.com\/index.html\">http:\/\/iowacitypoetrymarathon.com\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final text of 10,119 pages was printed out by Bu Wilson and bound by Bill Voss of the UI Library Preservation Dept.\u00a0 The binding measures 8 1\/2 x 11 x 24 inches and is possibly the thickest single volume book ever bound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/01\/closed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2392  alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/01\/closed.jpg\" alt=\"Poetry City Mararthon\" width=\"351\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/01\/closed.jpg 351w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/01\/closed-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/01\/open.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2393\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/01\/open.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/01\/open.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/01\/open-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2011\/01\/open-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Celebration of Iowa City being named a &#8220;City of Literature&#8221; by UNESCO, \u00a0 Dr. Alphabet (Dave Morice) sponsored by Sackter House Media\u00a0has completed\u00a0his largest, longest, world-record breaking poetry marathon by creating a 100 volume work of 10,000 pages in 100 days. The marathon\u00a0was a highlight of a four-month exhibit at the University of Iowa<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2011\/01\/07\/10000-page-book-bound-at-conservation-lab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;10,000 page book bound at Conservation Lab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}