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_{Were a wind to arise
I could put up a sail
Were there no sail
I’d make one of canvas and sticks

Bertolt Brecht, ‘Motto’
(Buckow Elegies)

Beware, o wanderer, the road is walking too.

Rainer Maria Rilke

SUPPORT POET BATOOL ABU AKLEEN / A FUNDRAISER

SUPPORT SWAHILI HIP-HOP / A FUNDRAISER

A suite of spines in series ...

The ‘Yellowjackets’
No University Press
John Cassavetes
Harry Caul
Occasional Collaborations
Hotel}

_{See here for Rehearsal, an ongoing & growing
collation of original (& borrowed) digital ephemera;
works, works-in-progress, & excerpts.

See here for Railroad Flat Radio, an assembly
of works for the radio.}

‘The wind shakes the screen / And all the raindrops on it streak and run in stems’ James Schuyler, ‘Hymn to Life’ (1974) ø Hotel Cordel, a new pamphlet series from Tenement, open for submissions—Halloween through New Year’s Eve—2025. ø See here. ø

Tenement’s online shopfront is closed for the holidays, 17.12.25 through 05.01.25. Orders placed within over this timeframe will be filed immediately thereafter. ø ‘In drear nighted December, / Too happy, happy brook, / Thy bubblings ne’er remember / Apollo’s summer look’ John Keats, ‘In Drear Nighted December’ (1817) ø

_{Rehearsal A corridor of digital matter.

No University Press    An imprint from Tenement Press.

Railroad Flat Radio       A broadcast series from Tenement Press

   & Prototype Publishing.

Hotel    A magazine for angular literatures. /
A series of pamphlets uninhibited by form or discipline.

   (see Seven Rooms).

Submissions † / ‡ / ¶ / § / π

† The “Yellowjacket” series;
   ‡ The “No University Press” series;
¶ The “Harry Caul” series;
§ Tenement’s “Rehearsal” series;
π Hotel Cordel.}

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Fresh from the Tenement Wheelhouse

_{Sharon Kivland
Envois / The Complete Correspondence :

Love Letters from Jacques Lacan

to Sharon Kivland, 1953-1981

Yellowjacket 22 / 978-1-917304-06-1

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Friedrich Hölderlin
The Death of Empedocles

Translated from the German by R. Martz /

Recorded & Arranged by Seth Tillett

Yellowjacket 21 / 978-1-917304-10-8

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Alix Chauvet

Cyclamen

Yellowjacket 20 / 978-1-917304-09-2

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Batool Abu Akleen
48Kg.

Translated from the Arabic by the poet,

with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami,

Cristina Viti & Yasmin Zaher
Yellowjacket 19 / 978-1-917304-03-0}

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