The season of lilacs is monstrous Hiroaki Sato and hand-sewn into specially commissioned

and hand-sewn into specially commissioned handmade paper wrappers using linen thread

Moving between archival fragments

zonder dat nog te beseffen

' – Jennifer Soong

Robert Bononno and book designer Jeff Clark translated one of Mallarmé’s most well-known and visually complex poems into contemporary English language and design

The season of lilacs is monstrous Hiroaki Sato and hand-sewn into specially commissionedFrancesca Kritikos The season of lilacs is monstrous is a study in contradictions: candied almonds that break teeth, lilacs that can't be milked, getting the things you want then breaking them like glass. Francesca Kritikos writes hunger and gluttony, violence and power, sex and shame with equal parts care and severity. Brutal in their precision and cutting in their spareness, these poems hold beauty and love and all that one sanctifies up to the