People sit on doorsteps, jostle round the barrows.
Ragged children screech over makeshift games.
A gramophone squaws up, broken female voices grate,
and in the distance the city resounds with the thunder of automobiles.
(From the poem "Judenviertel in London", by Ernst Stadler, translated by Edward Timms)
Ragged children screech over makeshift games.
A gramophone squaws up, broken female voices grate,
and in the distance the city resounds with the thunder of automobiles.
(From the poem "Judenviertel in London", by Ernst Stadler, translated by Edward Timms)
The city surrounds us and brings to each of our senses a vivid meaning of "nightmare"; because even when our consciousness is asleep, the city persists in its perpetual movements perceived in each uncertain movement of large dreamland universe. This nightmarish city, disorderly assemblage of living beings, an endless scouring of pollution, chaos, steel, concrete and glass, receives its due tribute in the series of chapbooks The Ashes of the Cities, whose first volume, IRKALIA, will soon be available.
IRKALIA, the Mesopotamian underworld from which there is no return, is the first chapbook of our new series, a ritual, a new celebration, a call for the uprising of the new urban lifeforms, animated or inanimate. In this first collection, pieces by Thomas Phillips, Chris Mikul, Stephan Friedman and the extraordinary Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent (1884-1940), a fine sample of the rich Spanish Decadent demi-monde. And a great specimen of the Anarchist literature in general as well. As far as I know, this will be the first translation of this author into English.
IRKALIA, a chapbook (5.1 x 7.0 in.) designed by Raphus Press Immanent Headquarters at São Paulo, Brazil, printed in the Sol Negro ateliers (-05° 47' 42''; -35° 12' 34''), with multiple illustrations from public sources and a really extraordinary cover photo by Fábio Waki. As usual, this new chapbook edition will be very scarce: only 30 signed copies, plus some (very few) private copies. For purchases, please see our Catalogue.
IRKALIA, the Mesopotamian underworld from which there is no return, is the first chapbook of our new series, a ritual, a new celebration, a call for the uprising of the new urban lifeforms, animated or inanimate. In this first collection, pieces by Thomas Phillips, Chris Mikul, Stephan Friedman and the extraordinary Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent (1884-1940), a fine sample of the rich Spanish Decadent demi-monde. And a great specimen of the Anarchist literature in general as well. As far as I know, this will be the first translation of this author into English.
IRKALIA, a chapbook (5.1 x 7.0 in.) designed by Raphus Press Immanent Headquarters at São Paulo, Brazil, printed in the Sol Negro ateliers (-05° 47' 42''; -35° 12' 34''), with multiple illustrations from public sources and a really extraordinary cover photo by Fábio Waki. As usual, this new chapbook edition will be very scarce: only 30 signed copies, plus some (very few) private copies. For purchases, please see our Catalogue.
As a gift for the first fifteen purchasers, the second volume of the Raphus The Bestiary series of pamphlets, entitled The Blind Cinephile. It is a brief narrative that seeks its power in visionary reports, from Xul Solar to Damian Murphy: a blind man who seeks in the imagined emanations of cinema a renewed world.
The opinion of our readers
Golden Age of Clairvoyance
"Well I have received the books today and I had certain high expectations and I must say such high expectations were well exceeded. The selectivity of the authors as I may have mentioned before (both individually and in combination) and translations are impeccable. The book design is exquisite and enhances the holistic reading experience (by way of comparison, on first seeing the books I had the same sense of elation when I had received my first Sylph Edition Cahiers a few years ago)."
(Andrew Condous)
(Andrew Condous)
"The books look really nice - I'm especially liking the full-color images inside. Very good design."
(Damian Murphy)
(Damian Murphy)
"The chapbooks are beautiful. Well done! Equally engaging for the eye and mind."
(Rachel Kinbar)
(Rachel Kinbar)
"The initial print-run of all three is, of course, low, so any interested readers should make a quick decision; because I do hope Raphus continue on their path of intriguing little translations of the recovered uncanny and esoteric."
(Mark Andresen at Pan Review)
(Mark Andresen at Pan Review)
The great weird and fantastic connoisseur, Des Lewis, made an insightful review of Black Mirror, the second chapbook in the series, available in this link.
Spiritual Meaning of the Massacres
"Many thanks for sending me a copy of The Mendicant. It really looks rather good – a bit like one of the books you read about in short stories that start off ‘Beware if you read these words... too late!"
(Stephen Cashmore)
(Stephen Cashmore)
"It's a marvelous production, and it's great that you have resurrected the remarkable title piece. I also enjoyed the pamphlet (...). Long may Raphus Press reign!"
(Chris Mikul)
(Chris Mikul)
"I am absolutely delighted with them [The Mendicant of the Books and The Sacred Abysmal Perspective]! They are both true examples of true and original creative philosophical ingenuity, originality and also design. They are fantastickal chapbooks and it is an equal delight to have been able to contribute and to assist in other ways. Although I saw the proofed editions when you e-mailed them to me, now that they are in my hands, they veritably glow and crackle and weep with their malign embers.
I shall take myself off on a sacred journey this weekend, like the early priests going to Tibet, and will immerse myself in the deep folds and ravines these chapbooks open up."
(Jonathan Wood)
I shall take myself off on a sacred journey this weekend, like the early priests going to Tibet, and will immerse myself in the deep folds and ravines these chapbooks open up."
(Jonathan Wood)