2007-03-28 04:27:37 · 4 answers · asked by Bored 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A modern chapbook is typically 4 pages of 8 x 11 paper folded and stapled into a booklet. A few have 6 pages.
Front cover and back cover should not have poems. Inside front is usually plain and inside back can have a list of your other books, an ad for your website, etc.
You also need to reserve a page for the table of contents and copyright info. That can be on the inside front cover or page 1 of the chapbook.
That leaves you with either 11 or 12 pages of room for poems and illustrations.
How many poems will fit depends entirely on the length of the poems and the number and size of illustrations.
2007-03-28 04:50:49 · answer #1 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I assume, by "chapbook" you are referring to the small notebooks that were carried during the Renaissance and later. There was no particular size or style to a chapbook. They were carried, mostly by men, to record poems, songs, witty sayings, etc., in which they were interested. Therefore there is no "typical" chapbook.
2007-03-28 04:37:48 · answer #2 · answered by jcboyle 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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2007-03-28 04:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by Hayley 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The Lit teacher got it right (second responder). In addition, the other responder who claims to have published 7 books either self-published (vanity publishing) or went to one of those cheesy on line sites that publishes everyone and his brother). That is all considered vanity publishing, not REAL publishing. The award they won is meaningless and given out by the cheesy places. Believe me, if someone legitimately publishes seven books and is working on their eighth (I am talking legitimate publishing by REAL publishers who pay YOU for your work), they would not be wasting their time here on Yahoo bragging that they have had some books published. They would be busy on their book tours. These types of people are deluding themselves and living in a fantasy world of their own creation. Trust me on this one. BTW: Literary chapbooks DON'T include illustrations, as the aforementioned responder stated. For the most part, they aren't even published today by legitimate publishers who are in the REAL publishing field, as there is no real call for them, or for that matter, poetry in general. She hasn't a the vaguest clue.
2007-03-28 05:24:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋