Editor
lopes began working as an editor in 1990 when he founded the micro press fingerprinting inkoperated while living in Montréal – see below.In 1995, lopes and his brother, Dominic McIver Lopes, began Caju Press with the aim of publishing South Asian folk literature for western audiences.
damian was the web editor and a consulting editor at Coach House Books from 1998 to 2004. While with this innovative press, he oversaw and maintained the website and its extensive selection of online books.
Trade Books
Glenn. Drama by David Young. Second Edition (revised). Toronto: Coach House Books, 1999.A Handful of Grams: Goan Proverbs. Edited with Dominic McIver Lopes. Toronto: Caju Press, 1996. Folk literature, 64 pages.
fingerprinting inkoperated
1990–1999Inspired by bpNichol’s Ganglia Press and jwcurry’s Curvd H&z, damian lopes started his own micro press, fingerprinting inkoperated, in the summer of 1990. The name was itself inspired by the first adopted printing method, rubberstamps, and the uniqueness of the mark. The aim, as stated on the outside of a mailout envelope (#7 in the publication list), was to publish ‘intruging & innovative “writing” in any form, format or medium.’
By the time lopes stamped his last index finger on the last publication in 1999, he had published fiction, poetry, concrete poetry, visual poetry, sound poetry texts, found poetry, and photographs, using rubberstamps, bodystamps, typewriters, pens, pencils, letraset, photocopiers, inkjet, laser and lino printers, and computers, on paper, cardstock, envelopes, 35mm slides, mylar, and the world wide web, by authors such as Nelson Ball, Christian Bök, jwcurry, MAC Farrant, Gerry Gilbert, bpNichol, David UU, Darren Wershler, and Alana Wilcox.
See here for the full publication list.