Persephassa small press : October update
roxanne carter
A new book at the press! Hothouse issue two,
which has some really lovely contributions,
including a radio play, illustrations, poetry & more!
Features work by fabulous people, including covers
which were printed by Julianna Swaney in Maine.
See here, if you haven't already:
http://www.persephassa.com/press/hothouse2.html
TWO
I just sent a box of books out to Woodland Pattern,
a bookshop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - so if you live near there
or visit you should check it out & take a photo for me.
THREE
On September 25 Persephassa had a table at the Providence Zine
Festival, which is an annual event. I had lots of fun & met
nice people, including megan gendell from www.somethingsbegun.com
& heather from www.lettersandsodas.com, who came down from NYC
to table.
I have also applied for a table at the Boston Bizarre Bizaare
on December 11; we find out at the end of the month if we do
get a table. Fingers crossed. I have already begun making
books for this.
FOUR
I was googling & found this review of 'i sighed at the sea' by Miss
Julie Dorn; from Xerography Debt #16 / March 2005
http://www.leekinginc.com/xeroxdebt/xd16.htm
"Gawd damn, I loved this zine-essentially a thick book. It's a
diary, stab bound with a French fold, with a block print of an umbrella
on the cover. ISWTSATSSBAM is an enormous, expansive, dense, artsy,
poetic, dancey, epic wonder to behold. I've been working my way
through it for months now, underlining lines, weaving images into my
dreams, wishing I could understand more of the person who made it (in
the best way possible) and the zine itself. It's like a broken key
into this other world that's ripe for exploring. Or some fanciful
secret language or something. I'm sorry, I don't even know how to
really explain this zine. I just know that I dig it a ton.
Let me just quote a bit instead of trying to babble.
November 8, 1998
don't listen, don't listen to me, listen. she is so contagious. her
contagious lips in synthesis. her lips the mosquitoes kisssss. kiss
off! i want to steal & swallow kisses innocently, immaculately.
life's much more fun when you can roll away.i keep my rollerskates in
my car, just in case.
It's a lot of that, but better and more. I realize that $10 is a lot
to pay for a zine. I really do. But if you're looking for something
different, something that is deeper than most zines, that leaves room
for interpretation and fluidity, then get this zine. Highly
recommended."
FIVE
That should be it for this month. Happy Halloween, everyone.
xo
roxi