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End Notes from the Aquatic Lanthorn by Jason Abdelhadi

My object here is simply to project the draught of a systematisation of Cetology. I am the architect, not the builder. But it is a ponderous task; no ordinary letter-sorter in the Post Office is equal to it. To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them; to have one’s hands among the [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:19+00:00January 14th, 2017|Essay|

HANDS OFF THE WORD “SURREAL”! by Ron Sakolsky

The enemies of poetry have always been obsessed with making it a slave to their immediate ends. They see jet bombers without thinking of Icarus. Benjamin Péret On December 19, 2016, the gatekeepers of discourse at Miriam-Webster Dictionary named “surreal” as its Word of the Year. Far from taking this dubious distinction as a compliment, [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:19+00:00December 23rd, 2016|Essay|

Postal Transmogrification

SC: The desire has come to me recently to step back and “file a report” on the mailings we have been pursuing for the past two years. We started with the primary goal of creating a sort of catalyst for the “mailbox marvelous”. After all, who hasn’t formed a certain connection with this mysterious box [...]

2017-04-03T14:30:04+00:00December 16th, 2016|Essay|

Surrealism: the Mouth of Shadows

Surrealism as a cultural force does not remain an existent and discussed phenomenon because of technology or any of the developments since Breton’s group. It is a chthonic, primal force with roots in shamanism, primitive cultures, and every last magical, obscure secret in the history of magic. Every bejeweled rock which remains unturned is the [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:19+00:00December 2nd, 2016|Essay|

Alkaline in cerulean by Tim White

a botany of regurgitated mountains, a shard of samurai - the Turin shroud chewed by rotten teeth flames of unguent giraffe in a legato of air signs - alkaline in cerulean glutinous geometries merge as pyroclastic salons pulverise a triad of gametes vapours of fresh coelacanth rising a euphemism of fungi frosting violet stigmata glittering [...]

2017-06-09T02:35:34+00:00November 30th, 2016|Poetry|

Eat Your President For Breakfast

Shittttttt! The long and tiresome campaign of President Posterior (elect) has revealed to home audiences (we can hardly call the unmobilized American masses anything else) the dyspeptic underbelly of the liberal-democratic fantasy. Locked within the confines of their curated Internet timelines and baseless feel-good truisms about voting, clueless pseudorationalists speak about waking up to a [...]

2020-01-11T13:50:27+00:00November 11th, 2016|Essay|

Lovecraftian Acrostics by Jason Abdelhadi

Game Played on the Night of October 12th, 2016 at St. John’s (King’s) Churchyard, 271 North Main Street, Providence, Rhode Island Poe knew of this place, & is said to have wandered among its whispering willows during his visits here 90 years ago. Last August I shewed this place to two guests, & we all [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:19+00:00October 14th, 2016|Essay|

Advice from Palmyra

Advice from Palmyra is part of a larger collective project from some of us in Ottawa called "Chimera in IPA". The results are below. - Jason Abdelhadi From Chimera in IPA #2  Chimera.IPA@gmail.com Save

2016-11-30T02:44:12+00:00September 27th, 2016|News|

The Cenote

Night passes and I wake from an imageless slumber. I push myself out from my dark water cocoon and jerkily climb up the side of the Sacred Cenote, up towards the sun and its warmth. My worm-like body leaves behind a sticky sweet residue, and I sense each new step through the six slits of [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:19+00:00September 20th, 2016|Prose|

Surrealize the Pipeline

Surrealist game in solidarity with the indigenous protectors and their allies at Standing Rock Sioux who are refusing the imposition of an environmentally catastrophic pipeline across their land. http://sacredstonecamp.org/ Questions 1. Instead of being built across Sioux land, where should the pipeline be rerouted? 2. Instead of oil, what should be pumped through [...]

2017-02-25T12:07:20+00:00September 5th, 2016|Games|
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