Tightrope Books Tightrope Books Tightrope Books is a Canadian independent book publisher based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2005 by Halli Villegas, Tightrope Books publishes mainly poetry and fiction, as well as non-fiction and anthologies. As a "writer-centric press," Tightrope Books involves its authors and poets in the publishing process. According to Villegas, Tightrope Books “prides itself on introducing readers to writers who are a little bit out there,” working with both new and established authors who are open to experimentation. Tightrope Books was purchased by Jim Nason in 2014. Tightrope Books is represented by the Independent Publishers Group (IPG). Among
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance time, as well as the stories of Peter Mays, a technical editor for a 1980s electronics magazine and Mr P - the first person narrator of sections of the novel - who is obsessed with the photograph and with concepts of photography and technology. Powers's later novel "Galatea 2.2", published in 1995, uses the first person perspective of semifictional narrator Richard Powers to describe to a large extent the conditions under which Powers wrote "Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance". "Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance" attempts to balance the technological advancements that caused the large