They say don't judge a book by its cover. And yet...

All material re-posted with permission from Abby Haddican. Original content can be found here.

 

Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics is a recent release by Black Ocean, an independent poetry publisher based in Boston. With my cover design, I wanted to convey the uneasy sensation of being watched; my solution was to create a decorative graphic design that shared certain qualities and proportions with the human eye. The idea for the back cover design–redacting contributor names–came directly from the client, Black Ocean’s publisher Janaka Stucky. The poems in the anthology are fantastic and well worth reading.