Take It or Leave It.
Shredded Ear, 2025. Item #3919 Saddle-stitched in lokta wrappers with hand-written cover. Published as Shredded Ear no. 1, this is from an edition of 77 copies, of which 26 are numbered A—Z and signed by the poet. This is from the lettered edition. Lokta wrappers used for covers vary across the edition; at times, title has been tipped on the cover using translucent paper. Copy received may vary from the photograph. As new.
A sequence of “phonetic/cut up/spiritual translation-poems” from/inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s Un saison en enfar. The poems in Take It or Leave It do not stand alone but instead, in the spirit of Spicer’s Lorca, find resonance between Rimbaud’s hallucinations—his bridegrooms and his wine and his horrors—and a contemporary world of paranoia, vengeance, and proto-fascism.
Price: $15.00