Books are not only about writing

Usually, when we are thinking about books, the first in mind come the long and sometimes difficult work of writing, finding the right words and the ability to knit all of them together in a coherent, attractive, new but still understandable narrative. But, if we try to go back in time, thinking about the long history of the books, we will discover that books also are sharing a memory of painting, designing and finding the right shapes and frames to be filled up with words.

But you could be part of this often forgotten genesis, at the Iowa University Center for the Book. All the techniques - including calligraphy and paper making - are taught and you are experiencing a new creative opportunity for expanding the power of words and explaining them better (also) through and with the help of images. And writing is set more as an organic and total experience, of being part not only of a certain professional category, but of a complex way of seeing and understanding the world.