No PRESS is proud to announce the publication of
False Friends
A poetic engagement with Hungarian folk art, vocabulary and translation, False Friends is a delicate combination of full-colour visual poems and lyrical explorations of the false freinds of translation. Produced in a strictly limited edition of 50 handbound copies (only 23 of which are for sale) at $4 each – to order, email derek@housepress.ca
from False Friends:
(Q)
it may seem adequate,
like a sword piercing a shield
in some chivalric tale,
but dust off any old book
and when you look inside
all you’ll find is questions.
is it a treasure map?
did it ride in from france?
is it a spear that slipped
through the ribs of your language,
thousands of years ago,
or is it a thorn in your heel
that you only just noticed?
trade your old tomes
for other volumes
and hunch over the pages
like a medieval monk,
search for its provenance
like a modern scholar.
or trade your leather bound books
for paperbacks
and stop asking questions.
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