Taking 'Superliquid Water' on tour!
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In New Orleans and Santa Fe hosted by our dear editors @prroblem.press
In Chicago hosted by @afdechicago
Léon will be in Baltimore hosted by @messandfriction & in Kingston hosted by @spiral.editions
& then cj and Léon will be at @unnameablebooks !
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Thank you all for having us! We can't wait to bring Mainardi's conceptual, flowy, and witty prose to you 🌊
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There will be flyers forthcoming for each of these events with complete lineups, venue info, etc. 💕
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There will also be a few more readings in May & June to be announced once we get there. We're so excited for spring!
Chameleon's: @kittystremy & @siencyn_ap_bened 🦎
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- Kitty Saint-Remy, 'Two Sixes and other poems'
- Jenkin Benson, 'Inhibitors for Protists'
are the first two chapbooks of the Chameleon's series!
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These are homemade, simple objects, only 50 copies of each ~ with these beautiful bands letterpressed by April Sheridan. Chameleon's will publish 2 chapbooks each year! I'll have them with me at @neworleanspoetry next month, and they'll travel until I run out.
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Thanks Kitty and Jenkin for trusting me with your work & excited to help smuggle it out there. 🦎☀️
The true structure of a water molecule is a bent, polar shape. Based on experimental and compositional studies by the poet Cécile Mainardi, 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 is a hustle of fen and foam. Like its eponymous substance, the syntax herein is slippery, pouring into and out of itself, so much so that “superliquid water starts running through the sentence before the sentence even begins.” Expertly translated by cj nizard and Léon Pradeau—the first book of Mainardi to appear in English—these prose poems fathom language as supersaturated and the tangible humid. “Scandalously gushing down the fountain’s basins in baroque offsets,” Pradeau and nizard’s translation splashes around in a tide of contextual and linguistic possibility.
pub date: April 16, 2026. 74 pages. 5” x 8”. Cover printed on a Kelsey Excelsior Model O letterpress. Perfect bound.
now available for preorder at PRROBLEM.press and through @asterism_books . links in bio
'Liliane Giraudon. Fragments Polyphoniques' (@l_pd_r ) - co-dirigé par Abigail Lang, Léon Pradeau, et Jean-François Puff
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Un an et demi après le premier colloque international sur l'oeuvre de @lilianegiraudon , organisé au Centre @uchicagoparis , ce volume rose est né. Avec :
Alain Paire, Luigi Magno, Anna Soret et @cantarellarobert , @lenaig.cariou , @aurelie_olala , @colocase.etc , @vincentbroqua , @qcauchin , @jeanphilippecazier , Alison James, Jean-François Puff, Michel Murat, @peurdelapeur , Cécile Marie-Castanet, et @olivier.neveux .
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Un volume d'études critiques et de propositions libres sur une artiste fondamentale du paysage contemporain.
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Merci à toustes celleux qui ont participé à ce colloque et à la fabrication de ce livre. Il est disponible sur le site des Presses du réel, et à la commande dans toutes les bonnes librairies 💗
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photos par @lea_boisset6 & @maudonthegram
