KERN

KERNVisual Poetry. Punctum Books, 2023. Paperback, 106 pages. 8"x8"x0. 265" From the press: Proposed as a collection of imaginary logos for the corporate sponsors of Borges's Library of Babel, Kern balances on a precipice between the visual and nonsensical, offering poems just out of meaning's reach. Using dry transfer lettering, Derek Beaulieu made these concrete pieces by hand, building the images gesturally in response to shapes and patterns in the

these essays are a beacon and remain a piercing and profound model for reckoning with and surviving our times of war and exile

an artist and writer who has produced the same acclaimed body of experimental art and prose as real-life Renee Gladman

Lispector did not even live to see it published

a Moroccan Jewish grandmother witnesses Operation Torch from a Casablanca rooftop

and creatives reflecting on life today

Fifty years after Interaction’s initial publication

tech strip-mining our curiosity

Solin asks ancient questions: what is "the soundscape of the cold

edited by François Bovier and Serge Margel

the book combines scientific insight

selected by Maggie Nelson for Rescue Press' Black Box Poetry Prize

about the lived aftermath of May '68: its hopes and failures and how they continue to resonate today