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Pablo Jofré’s alphabet begins with “Abyss” and travels through “Caravan,” “Jewel,” and “Narcolepsy” before arriving at “Xenophobia,” charting the Berlin-based Chilean poet’s obsessive exploration of the world around him through the lens of politics, relationships, and travel. Awarded the Gabriela Mistral Chilean National Literature Contest in its original Spanish, this bilingual edition, Abecedary, is supported by the Chilean government’s prestigious National Council of Arts and Culture Translation Support Grant.

“Surely the dream—and nightmare—of many Western writers since the birth of modernity has been to write and impose their own personal dictionary. Some attempt it sneakily; others, head on. Pablo Jofré writes head on and knows what confronts him: he must display his words, which belong forcefully to others too.” —Sergio Gaspar

“Pablo Jofré has already staked a claim on our language—plural, tribal—from which he takes the words that he will make his… the author has constructed a small verbal work, his puzzles of words that he has ordered alphabetically… Abecedary is not sloppy, piled words, but rather a finely knit weaving…” —Elvira Hernández .elvira.hernandez

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And finally, our last PARROT – Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation by Mathew Timmons

Normal photographs are made by using the ordinary light reflected from objects to burn patterns into photosensitive chemicals on a piece of film, and then enlarging and reversing that negative image, burning it into a piece of photosensitive paper, and chemically ‘fixing’ it. It is an explicit, or explicate representation; with differing degrees of accuracy, you can match up one square inch of the picture with a corresponding area of the object depicted, in a one-to-one isomorphism.
Large sensational photographs made their first appearance, with the topics of s*x, violence, accidents and scandal as their major themes.
More beautiful than fabulous pictures.
You shall not make any images of me.

Saddle-stitched chapbook, 24 pages
Matte finish, opaque cream, 70 # text (104 gsm)
Dimensions: 6.125” x 9.375” x 0.125”
ISSN: 2169-3811-23

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Today, we’re looking at PARROT 19, Break Bloom Burn by Maximus Kim

There is Xiao Mei. In three words: new age hippie. Picture a bleached blonde waif, a self-described hacker by night - slash - computer programmer by day, in her late twenties; a New School dropout desperate to act out her role as the anorexic Über-Feminist (vis-à-vis Simone Weil’s pale indignant visage) - and change the world for the becoming resurrection of a higher and more perfect Communism. Her naivete was only matched by her fragile faith in the homeostatic healing properties of Gaia.

Saddle-stitched chapbook, 20 pages
Matte finish, opaque cream, 70 # text (104 gsm)
Dimensions: 6.125” x 9.375” x 0.125”
ISSN: 2169-3811-19

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