Andrew Hoyem

Andrew Lewison Hoyem (born 1 December 1935) is a typographer, letterpress printer, publisher, poet, and preservationist. He is the founder (in 1974) and was the director of Arion Press in San Francisco until his retirement in October 2018. Arion Press "is considered the nation's leading publisher of fine-press books," according to the ''Minneapolis Star Tribune''. Arion Press "carries on a grand legacy of San Francisco printers and bookmakers," according to Michael Kimmelman of ''The New York Times''. Hoyem’s work in preserving the nation’s last typefoundry has been recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

As Arion Press’s designer, master printer, and editor, Hoyem used techniques of printing from metal type going back to Gutenberg and revived the turn of the century tradition of the livre d’artiste, matching literature with original work by major contemporary artists, including William Kentridge (''The Lulu Plays''), Jasper Johns (''Poetry of Wallace Stevens''), John Baldessari (''Tristram Shandy''), Kiki Smith (''Poetry of Emily Dickinson''), Richard Diebenkorn (''Poetry of W. B. Yeats''), Wayne Thiebaud (''Invisible Cities'', ''The Physiology of Taste''), Alex Katz (''Poetry of Bill Berkson''), Martin Puryear (''Cane''), R. B. Kitaj (''The Wasteland'', ''Kaddish'', ''Exit Ghost''), Robert Motherwell (''Ulysses''), and Jim Dine (''The Apocalypse'', ''Biotherm'', ''Case Study of the Wolf-Man'', ''Temple of Flora'').

Hoyem has published such contemporary writers as Seamus Heaney (''Squarings'', ''Stone from Delphi''), Robert Alter (''Genesis'', translation), Tom Stoppard (''Arcadia''), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (''A Coney Island of the Mind''), David Mamet (''American Buffalo''), and scholars Helen Vendler (editions of Wallace Stevens, Allen Ginsberg, Shakespeare’s sonnets, and Melville), Arthur Danto (Henry James, Wittgenstein’s ''On Certainty''), and Richard Wollheim (Freud), as well as classics by Cervantes (''Don Quixote''), Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen (''Sense and Sensibility''), T. S. Eliot, Dickens (''A Christmas Carol''), Flaubert (''Bouvard and Pecuchet''), Benjamin Franklin (''Autobiography''), Herman Melville (''Moby-Dick'', poetry), Pushkin (''Eugene Onegin''), Walt Whitman (''Leaves of Grass''), Sappho, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane (''The Bridge''), Laurence Sterne, Shakespeare, and others. Hoyem also published works of history, science, and philosophy, and commissioned new translations.

Hoyem summarized his career in an interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth of the PBS-TV ''NewsHour'' with Jim Lehrer: "I started out by having a combined interest in literature and visual arts, and enjoyed drawing as well as writing poetry, and those two interests really came to one in the making of books by hand." Provided by Wikipedia