https://tenteditions.com TENT EDITIONS Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:47:34 +0000 https://tenteditions.com en https://tenteditions.com/FI-FIELD-GUIDE Thu, 15 Dec 2022 23:19:01 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/FI-FIELD-GUIDE Field Guide ~ Some Wild Plants of the Beaches and Dunelands of Fire Island Margaret Hopkins photographed and pressed specimens that she collected in and around Oakleyville, a tiny community in Fire Island. She also wrote, illustrated, and self-published a beautiful field guide to the plants she found entitled Some Wild Plants of the Beaches and Dunelands of Fire Island. TENT EDITIONS has lovingly reproduced this pamphlet in tribute to her research and to the natural beauty of Fire Island. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afa8aa56b53dfb183fe9e33ef5d7be56a59534d8c80eb948451b3a65525f3b36/IMG_4402.jpg" data-mid="162131486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afa8aa56b53dfb183fe9e33ef5d7be56a59534d8c80eb948451b3a65525f3b36/IMG_4402.jpg" /> NYBG&nbsp; ~&nbsp;A trip to Fire Island with Peggy Hopkins <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fd8416dcccaf685a00c347f75f5f7452bfd2777f528809a93da62b438f5b1ce/IMG_4464.jpg" data-mid="162133736" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fd8416dcccaf685a00c347f75f5f7452bfd2777f528809a93da62b438f5b1ce/IMG_4464.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7c59075bce4cf0c833179985d95ab66ba7f1d4c9becfcb31c0c4de1598ee871/IMG_4432.jpg" data-mid="162131678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7c59075bce4cf0c833179985d95ab66ba7f1d4c9becfcb31c0c4de1598ee871/IMG_4432.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6e7a96918b3c2e097f5bf5b51772457af5aec3e7a0022c71c33dcda4357014c/IMG_4422.jpg" data-mid="162131762" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6e7a96918b3c2e097f5bf5b51772457af5aec3e7a0022c71c33dcda4357014c/IMG_4422.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1369a70a2e3533bd3d5e7cd5f8f075b2cb9d807f91b1c6f18117bc26281d6941/IMG_4415.jpg" data-mid="162131831" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1369a70a2e3533bd3d5e7cd5f8f075b2cb9d807f91b1c6f18117bc26281d6941/IMG_4415.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7dbe32f7b008a36bf41202a45f12b2a5d4343c3c35da2413cc6aec96730896a/IMG_4428.jpg" data-mid="162132253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7dbe32f7b008a36bf41202a45f12b2a5d4343c3c35da2413cc6aec96730896a/IMG_4428.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79d11d5ab7b8eea8bdfc9c8d19dbff330d487d14b7597137007d80adab422079/IMG_4443.jpg" data-mid="162133702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79d11d5ab7b8eea8bdfc9c8d19dbff330d487d14b7597137007d80adab422079/IMG_4443.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b9fd596c83f99590ca16ff3ded8b7d925003f3d9e498303c6ba1c34d77b4f04/IMG_4449.jpg" data-mid="162133719" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b9fd596c83f99590ca16ff3ded8b7d925003f3d9e498303c6ba1c34d77b4f04/IMG_4449.jpg" /> It is the vegetation, and the vegetation alone, that makes possible the permanent dunes without which there soon would be no Fire Island. — From Some Wild Plants of the Beaches and Dunelands of Fire Island, 1967 <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79c82b62edba15c49ca742889bc67a994b5dd181468a81e89b7d802b50daaec2/IMG_4471.jpg" data-mid="162131493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79c82b62edba15c49ca742889bc67a994b5dd181468a81e89b7d802b50daaec2/IMG_4471.jpg" /> SOME WILD PLANTS OF THE BEACHES AND DUNELANDS OF FIRE ISLAND —TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT ~ PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FUTURE PRINT RUNS! Printed in an updated limited edition with 4 new cover variations, 2022.&nbsp; Previously printed in an edition of 100 copies, &nbsp;in 4 cover variations, 25 per color, 2021.&nbsp; $12.00Please select your cover below.&nbsp; Printed with the wonderful crew at Lucky Risograph, New York City. The Risograph originated from Japan and was manufactured by the Riso Kagaku Corporation in 1980. It was intended to be used as a copier for high-volume needs in establishments such as schools, clubs, churches, colleges, and political campaigns. Born out of the mimeograph, the Risograph brought together several printing processes previously done manually. The Risograph uses plant-based ink and the machines are incredibly energy efficient with a minimum amount of waste. Riso means ideal in Japanese. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68a41fa5d9ae355f0a2103b6f7f1427ab7ad5a11c0b241472f3e98958c7306ca/IMG_4394.jpg" data-mid="162131548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68a41fa5d9ae355f0a2103b6f7f1427ab7ad5a11c0b241472f3e98958c7306ca/IMG_4394.jpg" /> https://tenteditions.com/NIFTY-WALLS Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:24:01 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/NIFTY-WALLS John Godfrey~ Nifty Walls John Godfrey's poems keep the figures and voids, the letters and haunts, the anthems and hums all equally active. They work perspective from the inside-out, making through their cuts the world be worn as seen, on the streets-mind and felt underneath. Living sonics keep time where decisions quietly and loudly get made, every line on in or about a plane, with connections. Nifty Walls turn out what it, being specific, and therefore mystical, is to be alone with many, to be many alone with this curious ongoing everybody, staying in the way of them who back walk, singing powerful unlikeness from the depths of the real spaces between us. —Anselm Berrigan <img width="1014" height="1458" width_o="1014" height_o="1458" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb89495e97b58270b1b0f3939147eef7c1c2d707d8efc4837d2a15adfcec6bec/EC09C070-7F5C-4FCD-80B8-8571DD6C2EF9.jpg" data-mid="99624456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb89495e97b58270b1b0f3939147eef7c1c2d707d8efc4837d2a15adfcec6bec/EC09C070-7F5C-4FCD-80B8-8571DD6C2EF9.jpg" /> POEMS: John Godfrey ~&nbsp;The Recluse <img width="1146" height="1280" width_o="1146" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8112b87b184e2554d75b4b896ebf14b243afc1d7ab948b3a752b06c0792a3e37/IMG_0864.jpg" data-mid="99624457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8112b87b184e2554d75b4b896ebf14b243afc1d7ab948b3a752b06c0792a3e37/IMG_0864.jpg" /> GOOD OUTCOMES In April you try plansTurns into MayBest thing is I don’t know bleepTake dressing for sunTime after time bad target Elevated by ungodly machine is of good outcomesOf all sacks what sack fits?I call you without linesDoes anything come of no one?And turn into sand no salt Deep hole it all disappears Guttural languages: lost Sliver in tragus: rare Armband from funeral homeDon’t go away in madness Don’t go away too sure What a devil says computes Go ahead, have a hey-day Sun squeezes into tight sky Man walks blocks in search NIFTY WALLS — John Godfrey Printed in an edition of 300 copies, 2019. $12.00 ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Godfrey was born in Massena, N.Y. in 1945. He is the author of 14 collections of poetry. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1967, and took a B.S. in Nursing from Columbia University in 1994. He has received fellowships from the General Electric Foundation (1984), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2009), and the Z Foundation (2013). He retired in 2011 after 17 years as a nurse clinician in HIV/AIDS. He has lived in the East Village of Manhattan since the 1960s.&nbsp; <img width="464" height="590" width_o="464" height_o="590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da6469debed7f586404245af724656e9c5ac1df5d7109cdccf1af1370893329a/Screen-Shot-2019-08-16-at-8.29.24-PM.png" data-mid="99624454" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/464/i/da6469debed7f586404245af724656e9c5ac1df5d7109cdccf1af1370893329a/Screen-Shot-2019-08-16-at-8.29.24-PM.png" /><img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc6896953a1adee2f0e059ce34d1f802bee1c4d2916a2fb21a73a79aaae887bb/IMG_0858.jpg" data-mid="99624451" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc6896953a1adee2f0e059ce34d1f802bee1c4d2916a2fb21a73a79aaae887bb/IMG_0858.jpg" /> https://tenteditions.com/RAYS-OF-THE-SHADOW Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:48:59 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/RAYS-OF-THE-SHADOW Marcella Durand ~ Rays of the Shadow Marcella Durand asks us to consider the geometries that articulate daily life and through which perception and language parse form: people, city, planet. &nbsp;Lines telescope relationships-- parts for whole, fragments for mass, and the singular for the plural and diffuse. We keep pace with Durand's alexandrines, her landed jetes across caesura, alight on waves, water and the sun's liquid illumination on objects and their shadows. Where others see corner or accidents, Marcella Durand would have us see language's infinite radii. –Erica Hunt POEMS: Marcella Durand ~&nbsp;Jacket2 <img width="982" height="1420" width_o="982" height_o="1420" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bbe9bc8ce149e512d49f9f90ea15800048e865e9867ea45dbef91d63005a453/image.jpeg" data-mid="102406829" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/982/i/6bbe9bc8ce149e512d49f9f90ea15800048e865e9867ea45dbef91d63005a453/image.jpeg" /> from RAYS OF THE SHADOW If we were to begin again. This place hangs in the center and continues to either side. Both start and finish, so many endings possible and easy, so many hearts to a city. But variation insists an end is not to beso forecastable or singular. Start againwhen we began to invent clocks and draw towarda way we could see time from a place we had shared with no walls, and only a tall sort of structure visible wherever you are in the city,whichever point, whatever street, however there. RAYS OF THE SHADOW — Marcella DurandPrinted in an edition of 300 copies, 2017.$12.00 ABOUT THE AUTHORMarcella Durand's books include Le Jardin de M. (Garden of M.), with French translations by Olivier Brossard (joca seria, 2016); Deep Eco Pré, with Tina Darragh (Little Red Leaves, 2009); AREA (Belladonna, 2008); and Traffic &amp; Weather, (Futurepoem, 2008). She lives in New York City, where she is working on a long piece for two voices titled Mirror Lines and completing her translation of Michèle Métail's book-length poem, Les Horizons du sol/Earth's horizons. <img width="744" height="744" width_o="744" height_o="744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30788713557a3af401c3b783b3e28b05d93723da73bccb18900f136cbbcd5826/Portrait_01_Durand_photocredit-Andrew-Zawacki.jpg" data-mid="102406836" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/744/i/30788713557a3af401c3b783b3e28b05d93723da73bccb18900f136cbbcd5826/Portrait_01_Durand_photocredit-Andrew-Zawacki.jpg" />Photo by Andrew Zawacki <img width="1032" height="772" width_o="1032" height_o="772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19319bbc5a1cf0cdc9696d671057190ab4919ef827778f673db7d5bb63e54028/IMG_6454.jpeg" data-mid="102408966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19319bbc5a1cf0cdc9696d671057190ab4919ef827778f673db7d5bb63e54028/IMG_6454.jpeg" />Photography by Eric McNatt IG: @ericmcnatt https://tenteditions.com/KIT-CARSON Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:01:27 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/KIT-CARSON Carol Szamatowicz ~ Kit Carson All the great nobodies come from Chicago: Henry Darger, Vivian Maier, and an avalanche of poets including Carol Szamatowicz. It appears as if Carol can write anywhere, doing anything. She’s resourceful, good with her hands, and questions authority but is a good listener. What she sees is what we get –– which is always more: “the eyes in your ears"; “I have married my big desk"; "don't want a house on a hill / the hill is enough." She's an explorer-discoverer-troubadour. If you don’t know Szamatowicz’s poetry, waste no time. Read immediately. Start with Bombs –– “bombs for other worlds in balance….” –Kostas Anagnopoulos POEMS:&nbsp; Carol Szamatowicz ~&nbsp;Across the Margin,&nbsp; Part One &amp; Part Two <img width="1014" height="1526" width_o="1014" height_o="1526" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e32a26f012c64a6996f59321e9d4bcef2c0923ecebadc9b8be71e6a0ff5d6f22/ki-noshad.jpeg" data-mid="99654423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e32a26f012c64a6996f59321e9d4bcef2c0923ecebadc9b8be71e6a0ff5d6f22/ki-noshad.jpeg" /> LAWN TROLL The idea is to lighten the earth so it levitates.&nbsp; &nbsp; -Larry Fagin I can’t tell if I live in a treehouse or a shrunken clubroom help me out here, Huck! (odd complicity) where’s the fence where’s the fight? disobedience breaks away we look human but nothing’s certain not even the March of Dimes my mental reserve is all show the river has me boxed in I sit blinking under a florescent eagle&nbsp; that oversees nothing When I saw myself as a saint there was a lot more fish and bread Start simple take one step the air needs conditioning soon the water too if you don’t love me does that make me a bad one? will you come back later on your raft to save me? if not why not? KIT CARSON — Carol Szamatowicz Printed in an edition of 300 copies, 2017. $12.00&nbsp; ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carol Szamatowicz’s books include Zoop (Owl Press, 2001); Reticular Pop-Ups (Insurance Editions, 2004); and Blasting through a Hole in the Universe (Green Zone Editions, 2009), among others. Acme Rubbers is forthcoming from Insurance Editions. Born among ten siblings on the Southside of Chicago to a Montanan and a corn factory worker, Szamatowicz came solo to New York City as a teenager in 1972, settling in the East Village. She taught children and teenagers in NYC for thirty years. Szamatowicz has written in Culebra, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. She currently teaches yoga at Yoga to the People and spends time writing between the West Village and Hudson, NY, where her daughter, Alex Malmude, lives. <img width="512" height="688" width_o="512" height_o="688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8e26883e695afa9327ab52609c011bb0f14565f322cd4bb5cb8b82af3344071/209-0129-8bP-Szamatowicz.jpg" data-mid="99654161" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/512/i/a8e26883e695afa9327ab52609c011bb0f14565f322cd4bb5cb8b82af3344071/209-0129-8bP-Szamatowicz.jpg" />Photo by John Sarsgard <img width="1655" height="1430" width_o="1655" height_o="1430" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63a3a87d68c51d7381be731fcb925971bd515c6ebed442d4975b86c592a76669/ki-int.jpeg" data-mid="99654424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63a3a87d68c51d7381be731fcb925971bd515c6ebed442d4975b86c592a76669/ki-int.jpeg" />Photography by Eric McNatt IG: @ericmcnatt https://tenteditions.com/THE-POLES Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:41:22 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/THE-POLES Ann Stephenson ~ The Poles Ann Stephenson is surely talking "on the reg" to O'Hara's “Meditations in an Emergency” which her long poem The Poles sent me running to, excitedly making some connection in the way they both take a matter of fact tone against social death and other threats. But at this late Capitalism date, our narrator is a more menaced guide - a civic poet who warns “terrible things come to those who don’t listen.” The Poles is the epitome of a poem that susses out and then follows the graph of the mind moving. There are no bum lines. In fact, one could teach a master class on line breaks with this poem. Each pause creates suspension followed by a burst of multiple meanings, which, is one of the most generous acts of the poet and this poet’s craft. To any reader following the call to attention, this gesture expands life outside the structure of a bubble. —Stacy Szymaszek POEMS: Ann Stephenson ~&nbsp;Brooklyn Rail<img width="1007" height="1374" width_o="1007" height_o="1374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2da4a8c97f1c1bb18c1362b495ef935d16e907ad339dde2413722eb2e64ff91b/image.jpeg" data-mid="99661342" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2da4a8c97f1c1bb18c1362b495ef935d16e907ad339dde2413722eb2e64ff91b/image.jpeg" /> from&nbsp;THE POLES Some books turn into other books today the queen is in green just enough netting to cover her eyes give the slow opening tulip a drink I lose time in numbers winter is my time nothing but ice crunching of course things happen around the edges those two houses drink from the same light a row of bushes, bushels of beetroot laundry wrapped with rope I must work on my story the end is divided, almost curtailed by robbers and bawdy revelers outbursts go unnoticed Strike from the record the feeling of helplessness replace it with coarse salts you are strange and beautiful THE POLES — Ann StephensonPrinted in an edition of 300 copies, 2017. $10.00&nbsp; ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ann Stephenson’s publications include Wirework&nbsp;(2006), Adventure Club&nbsp;(2013), and The Poles (2017). Some of her poems have appeared in Across the Margin, Brooklyn Rail, Delineator, Ladowich, The&nbsp;Recluse, and Sal Mimeo, as well as the anthology Like Musical Instruments: 83 Contemporary American Poets (2014). She is the founder and editor of Tent Editions. She received her MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 2007, and curated the Ready Set Readings series at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta in 2009–10. Stephenson is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Poetry (2017). She was born and raised in Georgia and lives between New York City’s East Village and Fire Island. <img width="1817" height="1278" width_o="1817" height_o="1278" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac6169448f355c4bba31bd5d3dca69edca82b85a435ff7a0ecfa8a409883eadd/image.jpeg" data-mid="99661424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac6169448f355c4bba31bd5d3dca69edca82b85a435ff7a0ecfa8a409883eadd/image.jpeg" /> Photography by Eric McNatt IG: @ericmcnatt https://tenteditions.com/WIREWORK Fri, 19 Feb 2021 23:57:49 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/WIREWORK Ann Stephenson ~ Wirework Taut, thoughtful ruminations on the smell of friends and evaporating streets. —Byron Coley and Thurston Moore Arthur Magazine, 2007 POEM Night is what you are fit for. They want your personal history, the cast of characters. They want your manifesto. Give an electron to a molecule, one that drops anchor in the stream of your mouth. Space speaks but has lately been vacated. You should have read the notices as a spirit-wounded child. My work is done. Let’s kiss and be agreeable. POEMS: Ann Stephenson&nbsp; ~&nbsp;DIA: Readings in Contemporary Poetry <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/492d350a1ede8a4f5c6d5a38c5107c1512995905091ad74acb65fff71317fdc9/IMG_9938.JPG" data-mid="99936199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/492d350a1ede8a4f5c6d5a38c5107c1512995905091ad74acb65fff71317fdc9/IMG_9938.JPG" /> BLOTTER Win, lose or draw, this is some sloppy dream world With no flowerbeds to play in, no attic to vacuum What won’t we do for entertainment I skate to work on my laurels Trees print out my shadow My work requires an aerial view of the region The ceiling in stars I calculate the rate of their fall Sabu implicates me, he is deep My mind must be preserved Certain others stop spinning Teens especially have difficulty focusing on one spot WIREWORK&nbsp; — Ann StephensonPrinted in an edition of 300 copies, 2006. $10.00 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ann Stephenson’s publications include Wirework (2006), Adventure Club (2013), and The Poles (2017). Some of her poems have appeared in Across the Margin, Brooklyn Rail, Delineator, Ladowich, The Recluse, and Sal Mimeo, as well as the anthology Like Musical Instruments: 83 Contemporary American Poets (2014). She is the founder and editor of Tent Editions. She received her MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 2007, and curated the Ready Set Readings series at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta in 2009–10. Stephenson is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Poetry (2017). She was born and raised in Georgia and lives between New York City’s East Village and Fire Island. https://tenteditions.com/FIRE-ISLAND-FORTHCOMING Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:06:58 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/FIRE-ISLAND-FORTHCOMING Forthcoming ~ Fire Island, NY Tent Editions is currently working on a few book projects centered on Fire Island. Further&nbsp; details and updates will be shared here as available.&nbsp; <img width="1254" height="1214" width_o="1254" height_o="1214" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb07bfc3d3d45f585f6ab2056b26998617830cedf77e29dfbd7a0b716078993d/FI-REEDS.jpg" data-mid="209083992" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb07bfc3d3d45f585f6ab2056b26998617830cedf77e29dfbd7a0b716078993d/FI-REEDS.jpg" /> https://tenteditions.com/CHLOE-ARIDJIS Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:47:34 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/CHLOE-ARIDJIS Readings at Parkside: &nbsp; Chloe Aridjis The Parkside Lounge317 East Houston StreetNew York CityTuesday, November 24th, 7:30pm Sliding scale tickets are available HERE! Please join us to celebrate The Shadow of the Object by&nbsp;Chloe Aridjis,&nbsp;published bySemiotext(e) / Native Agents. This event will feature a reading ~ followed by a conversation with Chloe Aridjis, Lynne Tillman, &amp; Ann Stephenson. <img width="596" height="887" width_o="596" height_o="887" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45a8b2a7eb96cc1fec5c864bc7cb13f01d5f0ef5e74adf71a05859889e0ad5b8/9781635903027.jpg" data-mid="253147179" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/596/i/45a8b2a7eb96cc1fec5c864bc7cb13f01d5f0ef5e74adf71a05859889e0ad5b8/9781635903027.jpg" /> A magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis, and mortality.Before publishing her first novel Book of Clouds in 2009, Chloe Aridjis studied and wrote on poetry, magic shows, and the literature of the fantastic in nineteenth-century France. Her new novel, The Shadow of the Object, traverses a strange landscape between Mexico and London; contemporary desire and earlier technologies of illusion.Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in the hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects pre-cinema toys and instruments. The &nbsp;two of them embark on a series of dream-like conversations in the hospital corridors. Wilhelmina puts on a magic lantern show for Flora, leaving her spellbound.

 When things take an unexpected turn, Flora finds herself entrusted with an important mission. She returns to London, where she resumes her job polishing silver at a jewelery shop, and strikes up a strange friendship with Wilhelmina’s son, Max. As Flora dips in and out of her imagination, she is increasingly aware it’s not only the magic lantern that projects, and her perception of reality is subtly altered. <img width="2160" height="2700" width_o="2160" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/257f76623df5fde65aab4de0733b817f4807bfdc0eb892e6810831a458240332/ANN_-CHLOE-A---dark.jpg" data-mid="253638816" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/257f76623df5fde65aab4de0733b817f4807bfdc0eb892e6810831a458240332/ANN_-CHLOE-A---dark.jpg" /> Chloe Aridjis is the author of Book of Clouds, which won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France, Asunder, and Sea Monsters, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, as well as the collection Dialogue with a Somnambulist; Stories, Essays, and a Portrait Gallery. &nbsp;She writes for various art journals and was a guest curator at Tate Liverpool. In 2014, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London. The Shadow of the Object was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026.&nbsp; <img width="640" height="800" width_o="640" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87eebca824741ba66c1bc15b4d150bf1f2b1e3f98ca372b34a0db610da5bf8f8/CHLOE-ARIDJIS-20-2-c-Nick-Tucker-1.jpg" data-mid="253147158" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/87eebca824741ba66c1bc15b4d150bf1f2b1e3f98ca372b34a0db610da5bf8f8/CHLOE-ARIDJIS-20-2-c-Nick-Tucker-1.jpg" />Chloe Aridjis credit Nick Tucker&nbsp; Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant; and The Katherine Anne Porter Prize awarded by The American Academy of Arts and Letters for contributions to literature. She is a professor and writer in residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany. <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30e499fafa42bdf91c961af4c759824a98c40c724100716d33242bea0eebc9e2/lynne-headshot.png" data-mid="253147010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/30e499fafa42bdf91c961af4c759824a98c40c724100716d33242bea0eebc9e2/lynne-headshot.png" /> https://tenteditions.com/IRIS-GARDEN Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:52:10 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/IRIS-GARDEN Readings at Parkside: &nbsp;Iris Garden ~ &nbsp; John Cage &amp; William Gedney The Parkside Lounge317 East Houston StreetNew York CitySunday, November 22nd, 4pmSliding scale tickets are available HERE!Please join us to celebrate the publication of Iris Garden: Stories by&nbsp;John Cage &amp; Photos by William Gedney from Magic Hour Press.&nbsp; SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22ND 4PM IRIS GARDEN Stories JOHN CAGE Photos WILLIAM GEDNEY With readings by REBECCA BENGAL LEE ANN BROWN MATT CONNORS ANTHONY CUDAHY JASON FULFORD MAYA HARDINGE JEFFREY LEPENDORF TAMARA SHOPSIN AMY SILLMAN JORDAN WEITZMAN MATT WOLF &amp; Music by LORI SCACCO <img width="1210" height="1020" width_o="1210" height_o="1020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b932dcac9cecf137d9048a5c8d85fd7baca32c8f0e1c06b8775222e78336c40b/Screenshot-2026-10-11-at-10.14.11-AM.jpg" data-mid="253146573" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b932dcac9cecf137d9048a5c8d85fd7baca32c8f0e1c06b8775222e78336c40b/Screenshot-2026-10-11-at-10.14.11-AM.jpg" /> Edited by Alec SothDesigned by Hans Seeger Like a mushroom hunting trip full of unexpected pleasures, Iris Garden combines 22 of John Cage’s stories with 44 of William Gedney’s photographs (including several of the composer himself) with an ingenious design mirroring Cage’s concept of chance. Originally published in a small print run by Alec Soth’s independent press Little Brown Mushroom in 2013, this new edition brings a rare, long out-of-print work back into circulation. Soth—widely regarded as a major voice in contemporary photography—founded his press as a space to experiment with image and text. Iris Garden reflects that spirit, uniting two artists he has deeply admired in a collaboration that feels at once intimate, open-ended, and quietly radical. <img width="7500" height="9375" width_o="7500" height_o="9375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eae50b576b84525ecf6cded56054d241e3e70fe3910652d35da13d1bd124a124/iris-flyer.png" data-mid="253705361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eae50b576b84525ecf6cded56054d241e3e70fe3910652d35da13d1bd124a124/iris-flyer.png" /> <img width="7500" height="9375" width_o="7500" height_o="9375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99efb79802f950cbb77df40c7021a403342a086dcb9304c0ce3d6ca0df20365a/iris-list.png" data-mid="253705359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99efb79802f950cbb77df40c7021a403342a086dcb9304c0ce3d6ca0df20365a/iris-list.png" /> My intention in putting the stories together in an unplanned way was to suggest that all things – stories, incidental sounds from the environment, and by extension, beings – are related, and that this complexity is more evident when it is not oversimplified by an idea of relationship in one person’s mind. — John Cage John Cage (1912–92) was one of the most influential and transformative figures in 20th-century music and art. A pioneer of chance operations, experimental composition and the use of silence—most famously in his work “4'33"”—Cage reshaped the boundaries of artistic practice, extending his ideas into writing, visual art and philosophy. Working largely outside the commercial mainstream and recognized more fully after his death, William Gedney (1932–89) was an American photographer who developed a lyrical documentary style shooting across the United States, from rural Kentucky to San Francisco. https://tenteditions.com/SCHUYLER-BIRTHDAY Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:15:20 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/SCHUYLER-BIRTHDAY Readings at Parkside: &nbsp;Nathan Kernan&nbsp; The Parkside Lounge317 East Houston StreetNew York CityMonday, November 9th, 7:30pmSliding scale tickets are available HERE!On the occasion of James Schuyler’s birthday, please join us to welcome Nathan Kernan, author of&nbsp;A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler. <img width="1800" height="2717" width_o="1800" height_o="2717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddafebc006c433b8654dcdbd8074de3d241f1950bf973d274f4e732552fb8740/9780374281175.jpg" data-mid="252555342" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ddafebc006c433b8654dcdbd8074de3d241f1950bf973d274f4e732552fb8740/9780374281175.jpg" /> The long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the great American poet who, along with Frank O’Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch, was an original member of the so-called New York School of poetry. Opening with Schuyler’s legendary first public reading in 1988, Kernan goes back to trace the tumultuous arc of the poet’s life and work.Born in Chicago in 1923, James Schuyler grew up in Washington, DC, and upstate New York before moving to New York City in 1944, where he fell into the social orbit of the poet W. H. Auden. After two years in Italy, he returned to New York in 1949 and began to publish his first poems. There he met fellow poets O’Hara, Ashbery, Guest, and Koch. For many years he lived outside the city in Southampton, Long Island, in a close relationship with the painter Fairfield Porter and his family, and spent his summers in Maine. Schuyler’s subsequent years in New York City were marked by poverty and mental illness, yet it was during this time that he wrote some of his greatest poems. After his move to the Chelsea Hotel in 1979, the poet’s circumstances began to turn around, and when he died, much too soon at sixty-seven, his life was stable and fulfilled.In praise of Schuyler’s poetry, John Ashbery wrote: “To reread him is to live, as though life were an experience one had just forgotten and been newly awakened to.” Schuyler’s work embodies the quiet beauties of the natural world and the mundane stuff of everyday existence, even as his own life was often messy and troubled. A Day Like Any Other, Kernan’s absorbing biographical study, explores this and other paradoxes of Schuyler’s singular life within the vibrant milieu of mid-century New York’s poets and painters. <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88c078db71b4c43b7bfbdf7d34905f29785349cf75bb0e289bc6ced1c9462cb1/ANN-JS-FLYER.jpg" data-mid="253603189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88c078db71b4c43b7bfbdf7d34905f29785349cf75bb0e289bc6ced1c9462cb1/ANN-JS-FLYER.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="1125" width_o="750" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea0bea5ce8bbc3e40cac8fd9dd7fc7a7f407080d4762fe551dad99c5a04416d0/Nathan-photo.jpeg" data-mid="252555337" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/ea0bea5ce8bbc3e40cac8fd9dd7fc7a7f407080d4762fe551dad99c5a04416d0/Nathan-photo.jpeg" /> Nathan Kernan is a writer who lives in New York and in Salisbury CT. He edited The Diary of James Schuyler which was published by Black Sparrow Press in 1997, and has published numerous art reviews, catalogue essays and monographs, as well as poetry. Poems, his collaboration with painter Joan Mitchell, was published by Tyler Graphics in 1992. A chapbook, Lunch, was published by Pressed Wafer in 2007. A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler, published in 2025 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is his first biography. Kernan is also a co-founder and board president of the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, an exhibition space for painting in lower Manhattan. <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3b444ce9f6af040692912f4e91db9c0d0b11ddbc55a9ead301dccd96c8be1b3/Copy-of-ANN-AMRA-POSTER.PNG" data-mid="252728105" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3b444ce9f6af040692912f4e91db9c0d0b11ddbc55a9ead301dccd96c8be1b3/Copy-of-ANN-AMRA-POSTER.PNG" />