Black Sun Lit & Black Square Editions at the 2023 AWP Conference and Bookfair
Black Sun Lit and Black Square Editions will be at the 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Seattle, WA, March 8-11, at table T1411. No Material by Losarc Raal and Material Exercises by Blanca Varela (translated by Carlos Lara) will be available for purchase ahead of their publication date... Read More
Three Prose Poems by Theodore Worozbyt
As dark memories say to themselves, the only flower to grow now and then is nasturtiums, little elephant’s ears. My grandmother opened her eye and sang the bitter batter butter song. Under the case the pillow was striped in indigo. And then a kiss like a windflower came and had a final note written on... Read More
For a Stone Sky and Other Fragments by Franca Mancinelli, trans. from Italian by John Taylor
this cage of mirrors / —a reflection / with someone else’s eyes. / Pixel dust, what we are. / * / where the lips were / we will not find the coin / for the other shore... Read More
Introducing No Material by Losarc Raal, forthcoming April 4, 2023
Preorders for Losarc Raal’s No Material are now available. In the full light of the world, I have actively hated the isolation of signs. But I’ve saved many lives with such. Dark waves of prey commingle with certain sleeves of risk... Read More
Introducing Material Exercises by Blanca Varela, forthcoming April 4, 2023
Preorders for Blanca Varela’s Material Exercises are now available. Flesh wounds, flies, flowers, and freedom. Blanca Varela’s Material Exercises is a declaration of divine oblivion vis-à-vis a violent mysticism... Read More
Brass Bell with Tripwire by Chukwuma Ndulue
I prefer a place with no logos / Where lingering musk / wafts through closed corridors, / where there is no way to rationalize a curse, / where there is no fear worth weeping... Read More
LOOK HARK YACK: Moyna Pam Dick, Rachelle Rahmé, Rachael Wilson & Chariot Wish at Unnameable Books
Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 6:30 PM: Please join Black Sun Lit for LOOK HARK YACK, an outdoor reading and book-art opening featuring Moyna Pam Dick, Rachelle Rahmé, Rachael Wilson & Chariot Wish... Read More
Editor’s Note: Vestiges_06: Aporia
Pédaler dans la semoule. To wade, to lose means, to lose the thread of our words. My feet pace, march in place, tap to torrents on the treadle. There is no limb that moves in revolution. Assimilating the hands that kneaded the sauerkraut and cancoillotte. I needed, have need of you. In wait, what trodden... Read More
Three Poems by Ghérasim Luca, trans. from French by Austin Carder
love torrent emptiness chair / the empty chair / the torrential and empty chair suspended in meta-emptiness / the meta-chair is suspended by the torrential rope of meta-emptiness... Read More
Six Poems from Enter Ghost by Genya Turovskaya
I can’t will you out of / the latticed net of the willow’s umbrage / I will leave you there / beating the drum / of a furious grief... Read More