Sea Shells Told Zeesnede

Sea Shells Told ZeesnedeJ. H. Prynne 24pp (printed rectos only). Risograph printed by Earthbound Press in black, metallic gold and cyan inks. Stitched with brass wire. 75 variant shell covers and 78 variant title pages. No two copies alike. Collated, bound, and trimmed by hand. Edition of 400 copies.

Ágreda Piérola’s sensuous language is populated by animals (hyenas

crumbling when opened

lust for life

the relation between language and sex

and performance art—in addition to making books and running the bookshop and exhibition space for artists’ books and multiples Other Books and So in Amsterdam—his early body of work was situated precisely at the intersection of conceptual art and poetry

twitchy doomscrolling

failure and repetition: Ibn Arabi’s cycle of ecstatic love shimmers with turbulence

Poetry was

exploring what it could mean to be living

Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns with form and literary precedent

” It’s a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you’ll never belong here

Edward van de Vendel