Interpretation has long been the exclusive domain of theologians, transforming texts into dogmas and precepts to be followed. We should instead imagine an interpretation that is constantly experimenting, with no certainty of finding the final word...
° but there are only a few hours we can relish ° chemical transmit song yeast / boots ° whatever enthuses cowering frettilations ° synthesis prescience ‘you’ ° porous / slide ° laid malleable stillness ° readiness ensorcell vigil ° said Emerson’s / edge enumerations...
If it is a stone of sorrow, there I am seated / There, where ribbons fall sideways on the plain / White veils. This is nothing. / Where the wild-eyed goddess plunges the child of another into fire. / The tree refuses to orient itself. The emerald / Keeps its fist clenched...
It’s a love story that slits its own throat, but it’s not a story at all. It’s your life. Your heart beats as a reminder of the beating you’ve taken. If you could reach it you would pull the plug, but you can’t reach it so you reach for something else. First, you pick yourself up from the pavement...
Write a music. Write a music more of with more no world, with things arranged. Things rearranged in no. World with no question (past, as night) in the mode of your fog. So that the fog was suited for your music and you made it with. Not owned. That’s your sense of this world...
Preorders for Andrés Ajens’s So-Lair Storm are now available. A poetry of articulation and dis/articulation, of artifice, of disengagement and dismemberment, So-Lair Storm moves between broken narratives, different materialities (letters, emails, diary fragments), critical essay, and experience...
Black Sun is excited to announce a new distribution partnership with Asterism Books. Currently, all issues of Vestiges (that remain in print) are now available from Asterism. All titles previously distributed by Small Press Distribution are in the process of being shipped to the Asterism warehouse...
Preorders for Michel Surya’s Dead End are now available. Dead End is a sinuous pornographic work that forms a part of Michel Surya’s series of erotic books released in France over the past four decades. This translation by Kit Schluter marks the debut of Surya’s fiction in the English language...
Black Sun Lit and Black Square Editions will be at the 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Seattle, WA, March 8-11, at table T1411. No Material by Losarc Raal and Material Exercises by Blanca Varela (translated by Carlos Lara) will be available for purchase ahead of their publication date...