This Monster, Anxiety Now Available
Red Mare 28 from Pink House
Image description: green background, a plein air drawing block print on Fabriano Tizano cover paper, Momi marbled flyleaf, and the handsewn binding of cotton.
Thank you to Su Zi of Pink House for publishing This Monster, Anxiety, a long poem about anxiety and walking. It is a lovingly handmade chapbook that is in a limited edition of 40 copies. You can purchase the chapbook here.
Su Zi did all of the work by hand and you can see how gorgeous it is.
As Su Zi writes in an essay about Red Mare in Periodicities, “Red Mare is a passion project. When someone holds a copy in their hands, they have a textural entity comprised of multiple handmade elements, they have a visual element of a numbered block print, they have fiber, they have the poems.”
Image description: flyleaf paper handmade blue and gold marbled momi.
Image description: hand-sewn green chapbooks with pink and blue thread, part of the pink block printed cover showing.
Thanks to the strike by Canadian postal workers, it is going to be difficult to get the books here in Canada for a while, but I urge Canadian friends to place an order and contact Su Zi about shipping.
A FB reel showing the process of making the chapbook.
I am thrilled and honoured that Su Zi asked me to submit work for Red Mare. I also respect the care, time, money and intense labour that went its creation. I hope you will support the press and that the issue will sell out quickly!
Thank you, Su Zi for this beauty and for all your care and support
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