Sea Urchin has just published another English translation of a poem by Romanian Dimitrie Stelaru (1917-1971). Stelaru’s poem Copacul magic (The Magical Tree) was first published in the literary magazine Preocupări literare in 1942 and included in Stelaru’s landmark compilation Ora fantastică (The Fantastic Hour) two years later. In his preface The Planet of a new Poet to that compilation, the influential…
Vagabond poet Dimitrie Stelaru was born in 1917 as Dumitru Petrescu in Romania’s border region with Bulgaria. He never knew his biological father, who was killed in action during World War I, and developed such a bad relationship with his stepfather that he was sent to a strict Christian boarding school in Transylvania at the age of fourteen. Stelaru escaped the institute’s austere regime a couple of years later and vanished into the fringe of…
In late 1968, shortly before Zap #3 was to be published, Robert Crumb found Xerox copies of the missing pages from the original Zap #1, which (according to Victor Moscoso) successfully captured the linework but not the solid blacks. After being re-inked by Crumb, those strips subsequently appeared as Zap #0. Thus Zap #0 became the third in the series, even though it was drawn before #1 in 1967…
Shiner is a set of 10 postcards printed on 300 gr Hahnemühle Britannia in a hand made jacket of 200 gr Fabriano drawing paper. The postcards show fullcolour photos taken by Ben Schot. The set, complete with an obi strip, has been published in an edition of 15 hand numbered copies. Without considering himself a photographer, Ben Schot takes photos…