Isolarii #16
72 x 106 mm (tiny!), 180 pages
Bi-monthly
First published in 2020
Editors: Sebastian Clark and Luca Mantero
Cover by: Alaska Alaska
‘Ah!Merica’
A series by Common Era, the sixteenth edition of the diminutive isolarii (meaning ‘island texts’) arrives draped in three versions of William Blake’s visual interpretations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, adorned with the press’s signature font in metallic silver.
The title, derived from Blake’s visual poem ‘Ah!Sun-flower’, features in-depth excerpts from Allen Ginsberg’s Napora Institute lectures on the poet and visual artist. Having strongly influenced Ginsberg’s work, these lectures draw from Blake’s philosophy on noticing beauty in the minuscule and using poetry as a form of spiritual resistance against political and internalised oppressive structures. A detail to pay attention to—each chapter heading is set in Ginsberg’s handwriting.
On the Journal:
It’s this one thing (on Isolarii #5): ‘Each edition of the tiniest publication on magCulture’s shelves, isolarii, is by its very nature a (miniaturised, printed) cousin of the ‘It’s this one thing’ column. Published once every two months, the series is ‘a world of many worlds’ where, with each new addition, a different niche subject is rather beautifully and deftly explored...’
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It’s this one thing (on Isolarii #5): ‘Each edition of the tiniest publication on magCulture’s shelves, isolarii, is by its very nature a (miniaturised, printed) cousin of the ‘It’s this one thing’ column. Published once every two months, the series is ‘a world of many worlds’ where, with each new addition, a different niche subject is rather beautifully and deftly explored...’
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£15.00