From the colophon:

“The design and production of large book projects distorts time in strange ways: the process seems unending, but there is never enough time; there are many steps & pieces, but the imagined & unpredictable gestalt drives the whole thing; once the long production ends the fun really begins; the book begins again & again with each new reader. You may be reading this colophon at the beginning or end your experience with this book—either way we are grateful for your company.

The typeface used throughout Orpheus is Lirico, Roman & Italic forms and in Normal and Light weights. Lirico was designed by Hendrik Weber and published by OurType in 2008. The Greek typeface is Neohellenic, produced & published by the Greek Font Society. All of the text was letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on our well-loved Vandercook 219. The large sections of color on the covers and the opening and closing pages of the book were printed from collagraph blocks made with a brush texture in acrylic gel medium. The covers were hand-painted with acrylic gesso, and the pages were painted with acrylic ink wash.

Orpheus was made in a variable edition. The text and division of the pages is the same in each copy but how they were articulated with color changes from book to book.

Orpheus the stutterer: a poetics of silence was written by the poet & letterpress printer Alan Loney. This book was designed and printed by Aaron Cohick at The Press at Colorado College during the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013. Two student apprentices at The Press, Taryn “Centauryn” Wiens and John “John Baskerville” Christie, assisted in the binding and hand-coloring. Corie Cole supported the production of this book in various ways, many of them intangible, but all of them absolutely vital. This book would not exist without the participation of our wonderful community here at Colorado College.

Forty copies were printed, thirty of which are for sale.”

Aaron Cohick, February 2013

Note: The full production of Orpheus spanned a considerable amount of time, and other student apprentices lent their hands and time to that work, but were not able to be included in the colophon. Those students were Mariel Dempster and Kelsey Skordal.