As forgotten as Asta Nielsen’s Self-Portrait
I cry for every teensy velvet petal-faith
there...on cardboard and oil-painted face
thwarted desire, soulace without a trace
("Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari, 1919-2019" by Fernando Naporano)
I cry for every teensy velvet petal-faith
there...on cardboard and oil-painted face
thwarted desire, soulace without a trace
("Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari, 1919-2019" by Fernando Naporano)
From the very beginning, we at the Raphus Press have tried to observe simultaneously the present / future and the past – Janus's double-faced visage that seeks to revive the extinct fossils and at the same time aspires to new annihilations. Thus, we value experimentation, innovation, risk; and Fernando Naporano's book of poems, Scarlet Sin, is like the milestone of new paths. It is a surrealist fragmentation of a daily life transfigured by Art, frames of expressionist movies never filmed, gallery of multicolored snapshots of a fantastic, changing, insatiable reality.
So, we are proud of our new release, Scarlet Sin – a river, flowing the poetic images, extraordinary experience through a lyric perception at once sophisticated and immediate, such as the prophetic vision or the satori arising from our daily interactions. Through these poems, everything, from objects to relationships, from visions to memories, intricate evocations float – a warm, pulsating universe evoked by short verses, fast strokes that disarm every usual expectation.
Scarlet Sin (Luxury Edition), the book (5.3 x 7.8 in.), 130 pages, designed by Raphus Press Immanent Headquarters, printed in the Forma Certa, with a protective dust jacket. Additional introductory pieces by Luiz Nazario, Claudio Willer and Alcebiades Diniz Miguel. Cover photos by Carmen Hierro and internal illustrations from the floating word made by J. J. Grandville. As usual, this edition will be very scarce: only 77 numbered copies, plus some (very few) private copies. The price includes: the book Scarlet Sin, Luxury Edition and the pamphlet The False Symmetry (see below) for US$ 14.50 + mail expenses for every corner in the world (including package and sending), US$ 9.00. To purchase a copy, click on the link below or visit our Catalogue.
So, we are proud of our new release, Scarlet Sin – a river, flowing the poetic images, extraordinary experience through a lyric perception at once sophisticated and immediate, such as the prophetic vision or the satori arising from our daily interactions. Through these poems, everything, from objects to relationships, from visions to memories, intricate evocations float – a warm, pulsating universe evoked by short verses, fast strokes that disarm every usual expectation.
Scarlet Sin (Luxury Edition), the book (5.3 x 7.8 in.), 130 pages, designed by Raphus Press Immanent Headquarters, printed in the Forma Certa, with a protective dust jacket. Additional introductory pieces by Luiz Nazario, Claudio Willer and Alcebiades Diniz Miguel. Cover photos by Carmen Hierro and internal illustrations from the floating word made by J. J. Grandville. As usual, this edition will be very scarce: only 77 numbered copies, plus some (very few) private copies. The price includes: the book Scarlet Sin, Luxury Edition and the pamphlet The False Symmetry (see below) for US$ 14.50 + mail expenses for every corner in the world (including package and sending), US$ 9.00. To purchase a copy, click on the link below or visit our Catalogue.
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As a gift for the first fifteen purchasers, the fifth volume of the Raphus The Bestiary series of pamphlets, entitled The False Symmetry. Three prose poems following the same spirit of the series and the general idea of an universal Bestiary.
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)