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We want our trademark to be muscular and slender formats with brilliant covers. Our A Bloody History of Divine Light and Memoir of Angels, having finished in this process of calorie restriction, will increase of price beyond the cost at which they are now offered as we go on to other projects.
This is the new cover on approval for A Bloody Theory of Divine Light.
In managing the riches of these works there is little temptation of profit beyond their dissemination as widely as possible. This affects the editing and layout to reduce space, not increase it, to lower costs while at the same time making each production, starting with the cover, a work of art itself and beautiful in saying that which has not been said. We publish on Amazon today a Memoir of Angels of 104 pages and a price of $3.50.
It was felt that the cover to Memoir of Angels edited by AE Reiff did not command the attention it deserved in black and white. An innovative take on the history of Israel as an example of the effects of genetically modified organisms, GMO, hybrid seed, and artificial intelligence begins with Balaam, the Ass and Baal and continues into the effects of the rarefied air of the Novus Angel of the Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, and the kill angel movement of Japan. The artist has produced this present cover to match the fire of that prose within.
Writing is sculpting a body of words like a block of marble from a mass. Finding the figure within as sculptors have done or painters find the figure on the canvas after much repainting, the writer develops a body of words, then sculpts them to find what they mean, how to array their parts in a coherent order, and put in a style invented, which emerges along the way. The finished work is always a given for the reader, but it has been through countless stages. It is therefore much important to develop a body of words and laminate with them new layers by composing sound and meaning.
Newfoundland Books follows a divergent model in some respects. Its first goal is to obtain worthwhile ms. to preserve them from oblivion, regardless of profit, popularity. Another divergence is the fluid existence of our work, which may be, at least it has been, revised after publication. An example would be the covers of Memoir, which has a new cover pictured here, but it is not just the covers, text may also change, making impossible issue states if bibliographers were concerned. In Memoir this has resulted in the full emergence of David Ben-Gurion's ms. for what it is. Where discernible his sources are placed in brackets which also sometimes contain editorial comments and explanations, but the whole ms. is attributed to Ben-Gurion solely.
This is made possible from the close association among the publishing team, the editors, artists, proof readers and authors who communicate back and forth, allowing the time for a finished work to appear in months rather than years. One further nuance is the point of view of the press and its team, which is not dogmatic, prizing coherent prose with, symbolic, surrealist social intent in the formalist fakta view to be explained elsewhere. We are eager also to expand our horizons and to that end now partner with Grand Canal Flyway books who have already issued four titles.
Compositions of the sometime secret thoughts of Israel old and new, Jacob and Ben-Gurion, true and false, wheat, tares and angels, David Ben-Gurion musing the foundaion of Israel in the life of https://www.amazon.com/Memoir-Angels-AE-Reiff-ebook/dp/B0BLTFGR9Q/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Balaam and his ass, Walter Benjamin wrestling the Angel Novus of Paul Klee, Jacob wrestling his angel among the mixing of seed of Maimonides, Buñuel’s El ángel exterminador, the assassination of angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion, wheat and tares in Van Gogh's wheatfields, America and evangelicals exuding a milky substance like sweet corn as they ripen, but after passing the milk stage and can be punctured without oozing., then the harvest begins. The grains need to harden before they're ready.
Our second publication on Kindle and in paperback, with a hardback to ensue, is a series of the Later Poems of the Llyfr Taliesin, that is, but is not a translation. This was reviewed by the esteemed Ruth P. M. Lehmann, long time writer, linguist and translator of the family of languages of Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton, author of An Introduction to Old Irish, Early Irish Verse, a translation of Beowulf and Arthurian works. She writes “Thank you for letting me see your Taliesin. You have a real feel for the music of words, great variety of mood, voice, and form. Your use of some of the intricate Provençal schemes shows your daring in your skill. You ring many bells, waken many thoughts. This is truly excellent work."
A Bloody Theory of Divine Light was reviewed recently on Amazon as four stars, an interesting review that is an essay itself, calling Bloody Theory a "magical, completely mad, jousting with society, but somehow untouchable, pristine and pure of heart." Considered as a species of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, "analogous to second order observation as Luhmann might point out. Modernity is ultimately a question of contingency, yes, but technology and divination remain distinct in this (mostly) disenchanted and differentiated...holy shrine’ of modern society. So where does this ‘holy shrine’ as described herein leave us? It leaves us squarely at the doorstep of modern society, alongside the reinsurance company agents and the undead salesmen, observing patiently the unfolding of this paradox (as folklore) in the form of science fiction, fantasy, advertising, Hollywood, and Burger King, which the intellectuals and the scholars abhor... It is not so much that I dislike any particular thing in this collection, only that it feels unrealized, a masterpiece only half finished, a work that speaks to my own sense of failed genius — neither entirely a poem, nor an online rant, nor academic criticism, yet simultaneously all three."
WE are considering a number of other works in this series, both poetical and fictional, but also specifically scientific analyses of number theory and botany, all presently in editorial review.
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