Palilalia

Jeffery Donaldson

This is a poetry cover that I just finished this morning. According to the Oxford English dictionary, palilalia is a vocal tic that is “an involuntary repetition of words, phrases, or sentences.” The covers shows 9 covers or partial covers within a cover. The spine shows the title “Palilalia” repeated as well.

The poet supplied the tree-like image and really wanted it to be used on the cover. In and of itself I didn’t think the artwork was very strong for cover art, but used in this manner it works.