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dusie kollektiv, year 3. available here for free download! In part with the third dusie kollektiv. The complete issue will be available a... read full description

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Mar 16, 2009
Juliet rated it: 5 of 5 stars
This dusie kollektiv chapbook especially struck my fancy from its unique design to its charming title to the quirky curios within. I can visualize these adorable little booklets spilling out of slightly misshapen baskets at craft fair tables, mixed with multicolored fabric poppies or battered pointe shoes. I can see them at bake sale tables accompanied by giant blonde brownies and tiny lime crèmes. I can see them snuck into public lavatories, placed slightly askew atop shiny silver dispensers More...
Mar 16, 2009
Steven rated it: 5 of 5 stars
I really loved this chapbook. I will have a proper review of it in either the next installment on Galatea Resurrects, or the one after the next.
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Jun 12, 2009
CAConrad rated it: 5 of 5 stars
This is so fantastic, I read it in one sitting, couldn't put it down! DUSIE chaps almost always rock, but this one rocks pretty freakin' loud! I know it's easy enough to read with the e-chap, but I LOVE this and want to share it anyway:



"As for who killed poetry some experts say it was God

So there is nothing to fear

For we are made in his image-

And what a terrific image he is

A jolly walrus with a long white beard
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May 11, 2009
Marthe rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Meng's book is hand-made by Susana Gardner of Dusie Press, Switzerland, a mystery, inviting hand and eye: it begins with a handmade envelope formed from a page of German text. Inside, Meng’s book, its single staple binding bound in paper from a page in English on dressmaking. Rough, hand-cut paper, soft yet tactile to the touch. 10.5 X 14 cm, a stack of folded cards waiting to be opened. Delight.

At the lip of the glued paper binding, paper horse cuts who find their way inside the More...
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May 21, 2009
Kathrin rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I hated tearing open the latch to open my hand-cut, hand-glued, hand-stapled, hand-stamped chap with its bevelled four deer. Personal and hand-handmade, mine is clad with the instructions “48. Sleeve with Elbow Puff.—“ and gives a description of how to make a puff sleeve including illustrations and patterns. Here another example of a chap where design and content fit just right since Meng’s chap is a “lost workbook” including lessons and exercises and entries in “ordinary time” and “letters to d More...
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Jun 04, 2009
Mark rated it: 5 of 5 stars
This book exemplifies everything we love about Meng. Gregarious, obsessive and funny. Reoccurring images are absurdly funny (God as a walrus, a million permutations of Dana Gioia) without being self-consciously so. Meng is master of virtuouso improvisation that never appears forced, even when she's seemingly allowing her cat to type for her ("The cat wanted me to tell you: / 9iooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. . .\hqwaaaaaa")--something only Meng can get away with.

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Jun 26, 2011
Kristine rated it: 3 of 5 stars
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Feb 02, 2010
Amy rated it: 5 of 5 stars
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Oct 29, 2009
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Oct 17, 2009
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Elizabeth rated it: 5 of 5 stars
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Apr 19, 2009
Tarpaulin rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Apr 19, 2009
Christian rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Apr 11, 2009
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