Chapbook Launch with ATLAS and Sputnik & Fizzle
In celebration of the release of their latest chapbooks, we welcome the teams behind ATLAS Projectos and Sputnik & Fizzle to Well Read.
The publishers will discuss the publications and ongoing collaboration, followed by readings from Broken Filter by Anselm Berrigan, The Destiny of Water by Sueyeun Juliette Lee, and The Art of Words by Orlando White.
It's our unofficial holiday party and last event of the year, we hope you'll join us in raising a glass.
RSVP is free, and open now.
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Broken Filter by Anselm Berrigan
In Broken Filter’s dozen poems orcas speak, hips are replaced, the poet is fake assassinated, and a proposal for all holy sites on the planet to be made into a ring around Earth is articulated. Family members are addressed, hallucinations are revisited, & dreams are allowed to be present as dreams as the poet tries to figure out if there’s really such a thing as recovery. The poems are blunt, warped, precise, and funny.
Na uma dúzia de poemas em Broken Filter, (Filtro Quebrado), orcas falam, quadris são substituídos, e um assassinato falso do poeta é encenado. Há também uma proposta para transformar todos os locais sagrados do planeta em um anel ao redor da Terra. Membros da família são mencionados, alucinações são revisitadas, e sonhos têm permissão para existir como sonhos, enquanto o poeta tenta descobrir se a recuperação realmente existe. Os poemas são diretos, distorcidos, precisos e humorísticos.
The Destiny of Water by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
The Destiny of Water explores climate grief through themes of baffling loss, persistence, and our interconnections across vast distances. Relying on observation and insight, I sought to find rest in a slowly shifting, beautiful, yet strange terrain. My model for being was water, the vast reservoir of planetary memory and how she eagerly pursues solace by running to cradle the earth’s heart.
The Destiny of Water (O Destino da Água) explora o luto climático por meio de temas como perdas desconcertantes, persistência e as nossas interconexões através de vastas distâncias. Baseando-me na observação e na introspeção, procurei encontrar descanso em um terreno que muda lentamente, ao mesmo tempo belo e estranho. Meu modelo de existência foi a água, o vasto reservatório da memória planetária e sua busca incessante por consolo ao correr para acolher o coração da Terra.
The Art of Words by Orlando White from Arthur Sze
A poet is a maker, and, in The Art of Words, Orlando White, Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born from the Naakai Diné’e, delves into the spaces inside words and activates a Diné cosmology out of the tiniest spaces; so the space in a glottal stop lifts into air and forms an electron cloud; the Diné word for water emerges out of the syllabic space inside the English word, water; and balance and imbalance, hózh= and hóchx-’, pivot around the invisible north star of an o. This is a stunning book that irrevocably changes our experience of language and makes us see the world with fresh eyes.
Um poeta é um criador e, em A Arte das Palavras, Orlando White, Diné do clã Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí e nascido do Naakai Diné’e, explora os espaços dentro das palavras e ativa uma cosmologia Diné a partir dos menores espaços. Assim, o espaço de uma oclusiva glotal eleva-se ao ar e forma uma nuvem de elétrones; a palavra Diné para água emerge do espaço silábico dentro da palavra inglesa water; e o equilíbrio e o desequilíbrio, hózh= e hóchx-’, giram em torno da estrela polar invisível de um “o.” Este é um livro impressionante que transforma irrevogavelmente a nossa experiência da linguagem e nos faz ver o mundo com novos olhos.
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ATLAS Projectos is a publishing collective + design studio, founded in 2008 in Lisbon, and currently run by artists Gonçalo Sena and Nuno da Luz.
https://www.atlasprojectos.net/
Sputnik & Fizzle publishes lectures, poetry, and other interventions in the world of ideas and praxis. We aspire to cultivate a space where academics and multimedia artists cross paths, where texts disturb comfortable formal territories, where national and linguistic boundaries are transposed via translation, and where the discourses that shape social, political, ecological, scientific, and artistic life coincide.
We are interested foremost in the confluence of the theoretical and the practical. Sputnik & Fizzle should highlight the fluidity between the humanities, arts, and sciences. We believe in the versatility of the lecture format and are committed to realizing its wealth of embodiments.
Sputnik & Fizzle was co-founded by Isabel Sobral Campos and Rita Sobral Campos.
https://www.sputnikfizzle.com/
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