Presenting a few of the titles previously available as handmade books from persephassa small press.
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Print: $10.99 Download: FREE Constructed from and filled with dreadful intervals, this night is yearning to possess a knowledge of stairs. Tortured traitors erroneously flip their imprudent connotations. Girls messily move to interrogate entitled housekeeping of a mystical empty office building in a theme discounting the narrow space that is left. It's one among elapsed collaborators, elaborations, and quixotic hosts, wheeling therewith to the theoretical fount of a woman of terrifying nature and aspect.
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Print: $12.00 Download: FREE Collected notebook entries from www.persephassa.com from 2004, covering our big move from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island. Entries run counter-clockwise, beginning with December 2004 and ending in January. There are no entries for the month of August; we were on the road.
A collection of sense-driven journal entries from 2004, arranged new year to new year. Movement in both time and space – what is the effect of reading them “backwards,” a sense of knowing. The “you” is clearly someone else and yet “you” follow. -Jen Tynes, editor of horselesspress
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Print: $10.99 Download: FREE The collected notebook entries from www.persephassa.com from 2005. My notebook is an informal, commonplace book; a hybrid diary which chronicles realities dependant upon geography, time and happenstance or imagined events. Simultaneously, the entries are evolving texts, establishing a narrative path, then disintegrating it. These journals are a public display of private writing. They explore the familiar and the unfamiliar, as evidence of immediacy; they create links between intimacy and fiction, between representation and the real.
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Print: $14.00 Download: FREE This is a collection of my notebook entries from www.persephassa.com dating from 1998 to 2003. I started my notebook in 1998 as part of a diaries class taught by John Wilson at UC Santa Barbara, and this volume includes the orginal entries that started the 'notebook.'
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Print: $11.99 Download: FREE Notebook entries from www.persephassa.com from 2006. Entries are scrambled by date, starting with October 31, 2006 and ending with an entry from October 24, 2006, but encompassing the entire year. In the September of 2006 I began coursework towards an MFA in Fiction at Brown University, and the majority of the entries from the fall were workshopped in a class which Renee Gladmann taught.
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Print: $11.00 Download: FREE "They were lovestruck, without language, each of them wept but the rain running down his face wept for him." Alba, Chelsea and Mary have all loved and lost the same man, and they meet together in a dream in a house by the sea to confront their melancholy and aggression. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Text is also available at www.persephassa.com
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Print: $11.99 Download: FREE "We whisper to our shattered earth: I am singing to the cold hands of water we say I am here. In these trackless forests our laughter gleams in careless bubbles, rising through the darkness of our delight." Drown is a novella about the alternately suffocating/liberating friendship between Cassandra and Aurelia. They have just reached 18, and are struggling with their bonds to each other, to their own identities, and to the place they are in: a suburb outside of Los Angeles, California. The text is also available at www.persephassa.com
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