Article: POETS ARE HELPING MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESS COME INTO ITS OWN.(NEWS)(Editorial)

Byline: Robert White

In a decade that has seen desktop publishing become a prodigious reality, the notion of a university press, always quaint, has become even more so.

In my mind's archetypical eye I associate a university press with slightly stuffy men in tweed jackets; with thin, pale and quite intense women with rather thick glasses held around their necks with demure chains. And I see them working in high-ceilinged rooms with plaster walls and tall windows and, back in the corner, a not-so-distant cousin of the printing press that Gutenberg used.

That's not reality, of course. But university presses are often low-key operations. More often ...

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