Delere Press

19/02/2024

we welcome the advent of the year of the dragon by celebrating our very first book of 2024 ... !

Tackling the question — 'but what does laughter say? — Anders Kølle's text, in conversation with the beautiful paper-sculptures of Ashley Yeo, leads readers away from the safety and comforts of reason and into the wilderness of the ridiculous and the absurd. It is a journey to the outskirts of language, to the limits of meanings and words, where laughter grows and flourishes together with the realization of being´s ridiculous ground

https://www.delerepress.com/books/onbeingridiculous

15/02/2024

happee hatchies to our dear friend Jared Pappas-Kelley !

we celebrate his work, words, worlds, and thank him for entrusting us with his beautiful book ...

get your copy of 'Stalking America' here: https://www.delerepress.com/books/stalkingamerica

15/02/2024

today, we celebrate love in a story about a man & his leg ...

get your copy of '[or, the whale]' by Juli Crockett with illustrations by Ivy Maya here :

https://www.delerepress.com/books/orthewhale

13/02/2024

quite possibly the perfect gift ... ;)

'Your book brilliantly explores the possibility that love, like art, might offer us that most exciting and creative thing: a transitional space. Love, your book suggests, assumes its own life, independent of its subjects. Your arguments are rigorous but your premises are cosmic'

~ Chris Kraus

https://www.delerepress.com/books/infidelity

12/02/2024

Laughter is communication. It is melody without words; it is a song as old as humanity itself. But what does laughter “say”? Tackling this question Anders Kølle leads his readers away from the safety and comforts of reason and into the wilderness of the ridiculous and the absurd. It is a journey to the outskirts of language, to the limits of meanings and words, where laughter grows and flourishes together with the realization of being´s ridiculous ground. With Paul Celan and Marcel Duchamp as travel companions and in conversation with Ashley YK Yeo´s breath-taking art this book explores the power of laughter in philosophy and art and invites its readers to laugh and to howl both with and against humanity

https://www.delerepress.com/books/onbeingridiculous

10/02/2024

gong hei fatt choy to all of our dear dear friends who are celebrating the lunar new year ... may the year of the dragon be a kind and gentle one to you and those dearest to you ...

with love from all us all at Delere

09/02/2024

celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year of the Dragon with some of our books ... :)

https://www.delerepress.com/books

08/02/2024

Anders Kølle, meditating on the beautiful paper sculptures of Ashley Yeo, and her approach to making works ...

an excerpt from our new book, 'On being ridiculous' in which Anders' text converse with Ashley's works on the subversive possibilities of laughter :

https://www.delerepress.com/books/onbeingridiculous

07/02/2024

an excerpt from our new book, 'On being ridiculous' in which Anders Kølle's text — in conversation with the beautiful artworks of Ashley Yeo — meditates on the subversive potential of laughter ...

https://www.delerepress.com/books/onbeingridiculous

06/02/2024

But what does laughter “say”?

Tackling this question Anders Kølle leads his readers away from the safety and comforts of reason and into the wilderness of the ridiculous and the absurd. It is a journey to the outskirts of language, to the limits of meanings and words, where laughter grows and flourishes together with the realization of being´s ridiculous ground

https://www.delerepress.com/books/onbeingridiculous

05/02/2024

we have a new book !!

so very happy to announce the advent of 'On being ridiculous' by Anders Kølle, a deeply-thoughtful essay on the subversive power that is laughter. His words are in conversation with the beautiful artworks of Ashley Yeo ... bringing forth new worlds in us ...

https://www.delerepress.com/books/onbeingridiculous

04/02/2024

celebrating that almost all of our books can now be found in the catalogue of the National Library of Singapore ...

https://catalogue.nlb.gov.sg/search?query=Delere%20Press&searchType=everything&pageSize=20&mode=advanced&viewType=grid

02/02/2024

as we prepare for our first book in 2024, we celebrate our 3 books in 2023 !

'Stalking America' by Jared Pappas-Kelley : https://www.delerepress.com/books/stalkingamerica

'Two Kinds of People' by Vincenzo Di Nicola, in conversation with photographs by Arsinée Donoyan : https://www.delerepress.com/books/twokindsofpeople

'VERT' by Dustin Hellberg : https://www.delerepress.com/books/vert

01/02/2024

to drift —
perchance to dream.

In which one can never quite tell if a thought that comes to one came from one, had arrived onto one, or if one might have merely slid to it, drifted into it.

Where, one can never quite know if one is responding to works — to the beautiful pieces brought forth by Priyageetha Dia, Anne Dufourmantelle, Gabriela Golder, Mariela Yeregui, Jacques Tati — or if one is writing onto them, speaking over them.

Or, if the works might have written themselves onto me, into me, have been guiding the hand (manus) which thinks it is, have been leading the scribe who imagines he is, inscribing onto the manuscript.

Where, the very notion of having a thought might well only be thought teasing one. And where, teasing out a thought always already opens one self to being teased.

But perhaps we are always only — can only ever be — playing

https://www.delerepress.com/books/toplayperchancetodrea

31/01/2024

In Blanchot a couple awaits oblivion like a date gone bad. Here there’s a threeway’s more resolute sense and direction of an ending

~ Laurence A. Rickels

https://www.delerepress.com/books/onendings

29/01/2024

I think a writer’s duty is to be a writer, and if he can be a good writer, he is doing his duty … Everybody knows my opinions, but as for my dreams and my stories, they should be allowed their full freedom, I think. I don’t want to intrude into them, I’m writing fiction, not fables

~ Jorge Luis Borges

An apple a day ... Her Name Upon The Strand Writing Skin Resisting Art Anything You Can Get Away With: Creative Practices Pure and Faultless Elation Emerging from Hiding Cotton Candy On invisibility; or, towards a minor jiu-jitsu The Gleaming Man On endings in fidelity [Or, the Whale] What Matter Wh...

28/01/2024

why do we write?

because we cannot simply live

https://www.delerepress.com/books

26/01/2024

at the heart of this book lies attempts to read

the hope is that these readings bring, open the possibility of, pleasure: not just for the one who reads, but perhaps even for — if one allows oneself to imagine — the text

for the one we call, name — can do nothing but name — Roland Barthes

https://www.delerepress.com/books/forthepleasureofthetext

25/01/2024

Every once in a while a tale strikes you; even rarer are the moments in which they stay with you. The rarest, and most precious, of times are when — upon encountering the text — you are reminded of a tale that has always already been in you, and which is now being awakened. 'The Toilet God' is one such moment: read it with care, for it is a hospitable text; one which invites you, opens itself to you, and might well cause you to open yourself to possibilities

https://www.delerepress.com/books/thetoiletgod

24/01/2024

With VERT, Hellberg creates a tapestry of wonders both modern and belletristic. There is a clever playfulness in his verse that is clearly rooted in an extensive knowledge of canonic texts — this historical ballast grounds the poems as Hellberg’s lyric leaps into absurdity and marvel. Remaining playful with and loyal to the great mysteries of language throughout the collection, these poems dances with words and their etymologies, in places that feel almost like song: “Tulle from old French for ‘plated armor’. / Or saunter, santus terrus, ‘to holy land’. / Or muslin, mawshil, which is to join together. / Or seersucker, from the Persian, shir / u shakar, ‘milk and sugar, milk and sugar’.” It results in a book that is a joy to read.

~ Lauren Haldeman

https://www.delerepress.com/books/vert

23/01/2024

for, there be few better ways to kick-start the week than with a few choice four letter words ...

do check out this alluring conversation between the poems of Michael Kearney and the illustrations of Djohan Hanapi here : https://www.delerepress.com/books/fourletterwords

22/01/2024

I've never been there, but after reading Hellberg I feel like I've been both mythic and drunk in Greece or Rome. That's about as heroic as American poetry gets. That's not Athens, it's Iowa City! I blacked out in a corn field and woke up naked lying next to Ovid! You should buy this book for your little brother if he is melancholic or violently ill or neither or both. It just might save his life.

~ Jake Levine

https://www.delerepress.com/books/aperfectsphere

19/01/2024

it's fridae, i'm in ... a love story about a man and his leg ...

'[or, the whale]' by Juli Crockett with illustrations by Ivy Tex : https://www.delerepress.com/books/orthewhale

18/01/2024

Yanyun Chen draws, and is driven by the question, "how far can I go with this?" How far can one go with charcoal and papers, and where does this bring one, lead one, leave one? How far can one go with a line, a stroke, a shape, a light, a shadow, an area, a turn, a form, a subject, an object, a trace, a place, a space, an empty whiteness where the paper takes its stance and refuses to leave, refuses to stay.

Refusal. Refusing — a story

A fiction

https://www.delerepress.com/books/itsfiction

17/01/2024

‘What is the weight of a painting?’

Which is not the same question as, ‘how much does a painting weigh?’ For that, all you have to do is to get a scale

But rather, a question of ‘its weight’: of how much it ‘weighs down’ — not just on you, even as that is certainly part of the question, but perhaps even on itself

And where the text opens the possibility that the image is ‘the weightless weight’ one encounters — is the site of a coming-together of the work and the one who stands before it, whether by sight or in the mind’s eye — in the ‘gap between the frame and the viewer’; and like the feather of Ma’at, is the juncture in which judgment occurs, where there is a weighing out, where the status of the work as art is quite possibly weighed up, where there is a weighing in by everyone involved, and where what is considered ‘good’ might well entail an absence of weight

https://www.delerepress.com/books/thefeatherofmaat

16/01/2024

This is a story of a girl —
for whom we are looking

Not that we particularly know where to find her, nor how to begin the search, but not even whom to find. So, even when we find her, or think the one we have found is her, not only can we not determine whether she were the one we were looking for, we will also never quite fathom if the name we were responding to, that we based our entire quest on, be only voices in our heads

Where, there is the possibility that she is being written into being at the very same time as one is — as you are — reading

And, not just for us, the ones who read, but for the very one who is looking

https://www.delerepress.com/books/cottoncandy

15/01/2024

happee Pongal to all of our dear dear friends who are celebrating ... may your year be filled with abundant harvests ...

15/01/2024

today, we celebrate our three books from 2023 !

'Stalking America' by Jared Pappas-Kelley : https://www.delerepress.com/books/stalkingamerica

'Two Kinds of People' by Vincenzo Di Nicola, in conversation with Arsinée Donoyan : https://www.delerepress.com/books/twokindsofpeople

'VERT' by Dustin Hellberg : https://www.delerepress.com/books/vert

13/01/2024

In VERT, human virtues struggle amongst the syllables, finding, in the welter of harsh words and tender words, something bold as love. It's been a long time since anyone has taken the stuff of English as seriously as does Dustin Hellberg. This is a book of challenges and of new substances

~ Donald Revell

https://www.delerepress.com/books/vert

12/01/2024

… here’s to chaos,
here’s to spontaneity and s***k
mixing gaily

And to more stolen apples,
taken freely –

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'Two Kinds of People' — a conversation between the poems of Vincenzo Di Nicola and the photographs of Arsinée Donoyan :

https://www.delerepress.com/books/twokindsofpeople