{"title":"Distance No Object","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"songs-for-the-unborn-second-baby","title":"Songs for the Unborn Second Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice Notley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published by United Artists, 1979 – a series edited by Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh – this reprinted edition by London's Distance No Object (run by Luke Roberts and Amy Tobin) comes in large format and is perfect bound. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43676395700438,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/products\/943.jpg?v=1666868685"},{"product_id":"subterflect","title":"Subterflect","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristina Chalmers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Scotland and currently based in New York, Christina Chalmers is the author of the chapbooks \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWork Songs\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Shit Valley, 2013) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWillingness\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Materials, 2017). She has translated work from Italian, including Elvio Fachinelli's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Freud\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(2022), and she is presently completing a PhD in comparative literature at NYU. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubterflect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Distance No Object, 2023) is her first full-length book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46917692227914,"sku":"","price":12.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Screenshot-2023-06-05-at-10.13.08.png?v=1690191730"},{"product_id":"chesapeake","title":"Chesapeake","description":"Imogen Cassels","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47309323632970,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Screenshot-2021-04-24-at-18.38.18.png?v=1704807975"},{"product_id":"the-colour-duets","title":"The Colour \u0026 Duets","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIliassa Sequin met André du Bouchet in Paris in the later 1960s, and the two poets exchanged letters, poems, and translations for more than thirty years. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Colour\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Couleur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) was composed in 1973-4 for a catalogue of Bram van Velde lithographs. Sequin began translating it soon after the initial publication, and worked on her version intermittently until her death in 2019. Appearing here in English for the first time, it is joined by three poems from du Bouchet’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaisses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1979), which she began translating in the 1980s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Colour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e includes facing-page French and English texts, and a reproduction of van Velde’s frontispiece for the original publication. 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Nor\u003cbr\u003ewhat sounds they made.\u003cbr\u003eIt took billions of years\u003cbr\u003efor them to reach us, sometimes\u003cbr\u003emore. They aren’t words at all.\u003cbr\u003eWords eroded long ago\u003cbr\u003eand mineralized sediment\u003cbr\u003efilled the moulds they left.\u003cbr\u003eMany more, weirder than we can imagine\u003cbr\u003ejust dissolved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Kiely is the author \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.brokensleepbooks.com\/product-page\/robert-kiely-rob\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRob\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.the87press.co.uk\/shop\/p\/rob-kiely-simmering-of-a-declarative-void\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSimmering of a Declarative Void\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2020) and several other chapbooks. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis critical writing includes \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/punctumbooks.com\/titles\/incomparable-poetry-an-essay-on-the-financial-crisis-and-irish-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIncomparable Poetry: An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(2020),\u003c\/a\u003e and he has been a series editor for Veer2. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCheck out poems from Psalms in \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/poetshardshipfunduk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ludd-gang-issue-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #d31111;\"\u003eLudd Gang\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoreview.org\/shorn-screw\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #db3434;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53166837793098,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Screenshot-2025-09-12-at-12.46.54.png?v=1761742569"},{"product_id":"honesty","title":"Honesty","description":"\u003cp\u003eSara Nicholson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld World bats \/ like the pipistrelle \/ And New World saints, there is no logic to the love \/\/ I feel for them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61987204989258,"sku":null,"price":12.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Screenshot-2026-06-01-at-19.40.15.png?v=1780481252"}],"url":"https:\/\/boekhandelperdu.nl\/en\/collections\/distance-no-object.oembed","provider":"Boekhandel Perdu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}