Description
August 2014
Handmade | 4 x 6 inches
Various shades of blue/violet cover stock & ink. Linocut print.
32 pp.
Bloof Books Chapbook Series
Vol. 2: Issue 4
ISSN: 2373-163x
Litte Uglies was the fourth chapbook in the 2014 series from Bloof Books. Each chapbook in the series was released in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies, followed by a digital release, and eventually a six-in-one compilation volume called BOUND.
The linocut design concept is inspired by the author’s close attention to small moments and details and her use of “nightmarish and crude” imagery and diction, including received phrases wedged into new and unexpected contexts, whereby the everyday strikes strange. The handprinted covers vary among a selection of blue, violet, and green shades, with inks ranging from silver and turquoise to lilac and deep indigo. The interiors are laser printed on bright white acid-free, archival-quality paper. Handsewn in natural twine.
Excerpt
Yellow skin banana with dark spots on it
Sometimes I space out a little.
I let my body go completely limp.
The sky becomes false to me.
Everything is gross to me.
Ten times a day the sun rises and ten times a day the sun sinks.
I shut one eye and it is still there.
Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise:
Dog bites kid, and the world moves savagely on.
Ha!
In the next century, I hope to be savage as Paul Verlaine.
I dip my fingers into a lake
that is only a rumor of a lake.
I throw fistfuls of petals into the
heart of the moon.
I shut one eye, shedding tears of red and blue.
Sometimes I space out a little.
