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A dream-like collaboration of fables and photographs, and a surreal and shifting deep-dive into clinical depression, THE DEPRESSION absurdly expresses the mind and life as we both know it and don’t.
Paperback, 124 pages
Published
February 17th 2020
by Civil Coping Mechanisms / The Accomplices
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"A kindly couple adopted a ruin."
"There was a man with gardens for feet."
"Two bison came into the bar."
Lovely (and often heartbreaking) fables in magical lands. Worlds where anything can happen. This is melancholic absurdism swimming in a pool of octopus ink and tears. The accompanying photographs enhance the isolation and loneliness, tossing the surreal down familiar streets. A wondrous winter read. ...more
"There was a man with gardens for feet."
"Two bison came into the bar."
Lovely (and often heartbreaking) fables in magical lands. Worlds where anything can happen. This is melancholic absurdism swimming in a pool of octopus ink and tears. The accompanying photographs enhance the isolation and loneliness, tossing the surreal down familiar streets. A wondrous winter read. ...more
I like Svalina's poetry because the poems always have a parable-like quality. This collection continues and hones that quality. The photographs compliment the poems well, not illlustrating them, but rather making them more expansive.
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Because looking at and being amid lonely places and feelings of loneliness makes the lonely somehow feel less lonely, five stars. I feel like maternity wards should issue this book to new parents.
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