These Ghosts Are Never Behind Us
By Joseph Lappie
Chicago: Peptic Robot Press. Edition of 100.

3.75 x 5.5"; 8 pages. A one sheet book letterpress printed in two colors.

One of the themes running through Lappie's work is "communicative constipation." He defines that as "the inability to either internally or externally realize one's emotional expressiveness. ... A figurative clogging-up of excessive feelings." In this one-sheet book he profiles Elise, a sufferer of "communicative constipation," a woman who continues to dwell in past memories - reliving, reconstructing, remembering - but not able to move forward constructively.
$15