The Sea/A Fortnight Chapbook by Victoria Cóccaro, Lindsay Turner, and DoubleCross Press
Part of DoubleCross Press’ Bound Together series, where two manuscripts are paired together into a dos-à-dos chapbook.
The Sea:
"Victoria Cóccaro’s long poem, The Sea, is made up of names waiting to be conjured on the page—human names and place names, the act of writing lovingly and sensually defined, moving like a wave through consciousness. The sea, not only with its movements and with its sound, but also with its rays and reflections. The present before it dissolves. The orchestra that practices every afternoon in your head, but that no one else hears. In this poem, Cóccaro investigates a world distilled, vaporized, and once again condensed in a new space, where time goes on simultaneously with its influences and recesses, tides and colored fish waiting to be discovered at the bottom of the sea. This is a poem of discovery, of a sea made up of naming, inside a book, a book that like a life, sleeps, until no more."
A Fortnight:
"Deep in a rainy Southern winter, the small jewels of Lindsay Turner’s prose poems shimmer and refract. Each poem is a dense knot of observation, sound, and feeling. Each poem is a downhill run through thick undergrowth, propelled by gravity while tugged-at and stung by bramble and vine. In A Fortnight, Turner’s poems glitter with a marvelous sensitivity to shifts in the light, in the language, in the mist that rises between reader, text, and world. Simultaneously meditations on place and records of work in the kingdom of words (as a reader, as a writer), these poems transmit their quietly thrilling songs." - DoubleCross Press
8.75” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Part of DoubleCross Press’ Bound Together series, where two manuscripts are paired together into a dos-à-dos chapbook.
The Sea:
"Victoria Cóccaro’s long poem, The Sea, is made up of names waiting to be conjured on the page—human names and place names, the act of writing lovingly and sensually defined, moving like a wave through consciousness. The sea, not only with its movements and with its sound, but also with its rays and reflections. The present before it dissolves. The orchestra that practices every afternoon in your head, but that no one else hears. In this poem, Cóccaro investigates a world distilled, vaporized, and once again condensed in a new space, where time goes on simultaneously with its influences and recesses, tides and colored fish waiting to be discovered at the bottom of the sea. This is a poem of discovery, of a sea made up of naming, inside a book, a book that like a life, sleeps, until no more."
A Fortnight:
"Deep in a rainy Southern winter, the small jewels of Lindsay Turner’s prose poems shimmer and refract. Each poem is a dense knot of observation, sound, and feeling. Each poem is a downhill run through thick undergrowth, propelled by gravity while tugged-at and stung by bramble and vine. In A Fortnight, Turner’s poems glitter with a marvelous sensitivity to shifts in the light, in the language, in the mist that rises between reader, text, and world. Simultaneously meditations on place and records of work in the kingdom of words (as a reader, as a writer), these poems transmit their quietly thrilling songs." - DoubleCross Press
8.75” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Part of DoubleCross Press’ Bound Together series, where two manuscripts are paired together into a dos-à-dos chapbook.
The Sea:
"Victoria Cóccaro’s long poem, The Sea, is made up of names waiting to be conjured on the page—human names and place names, the act of writing lovingly and sensually defined, moving like a wave through consciousness. The sea, not only with its movements and with its sound, but also with its rays and reflections. The present before it dissolves. The orchestra that practices every afternoon in your head, but that no one else hears. In this poem, Cóccaro investigates a world distilled, vaporized, and once again condensed in a new space, where time goes on simultaneously with its influences and recesses, tides and colored fish waiting to be discovered at the bottom of the sea. This is a poem of discovery, of a sea made up of naming, inside a book, a book that like a life, sleeps, until no more."
A Fortnight:
"Deep in a rainy Southern winter, the small jewels of Lindsay Turner’s prose poems shimmer and refract. Each poem is a dense knot of observation, sound, and feeling. Each poem is a downhill run through thick undergrowth, propelled by gravity while tugged-at and stung by bramble and vine. In A Fortnight, Turner’s poems glitter with a marvelous sensitivity to shifts in the light, in the language, in the mist that rises between reader, text, and world. Simultaneously meditations on place and records of work in the kingdom of words (as a reader, as a writer), these poems transmit their quietly thrilling songs." - DoubleCross Press
8.75” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Victoria Cóccaro (she/her) is a writer from Buenos Aires, author of poetry books, essays and contemporary opera. Her opera-poem Decir was premiered with music by Francisco del Pino in the Teatro Argentino Experimentation Center in July 2019. Other pieces intersecting music and poetry such as Cave/Cueva (2021) and The Sea (2022) have been presented at Princeton University. She is the creator and curator of the sound and poetry reading cycle Procesadores de textos. PhD in Literature (University of Buenos Aires), she studied Experimental Opera (UNTREF and Williams’ Winter School). She teaches Creative Writing at the National University of Arts. Her last book on Latin American art and literary criticism Qué está vivo? / What is alive? was published in 2023 (Miño y Dávila). Her current research project conducted in the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) covers intertwinings between Literature and Music.
A poet, critic, and translator, Lindsay Turner (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections The Upstate (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018). Her translations from the French include books by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Stéphane Bouquet, Frédéric Neyrat, Richard Rechtman, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and others. Her translation of Bouquet's The Next Loves was longlisted for the National Translation Awards, shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, and named a New York Times top 10 poetry collection of 2019, and she has twice received French Voices Grants for her translation work. Originally from northeast Tennessee, she lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University.
DoubleCross Press is a publisher of handmade books of poetry and poetics. With an eye toward artist book studio practices and spaces, and toward the materials and structures of contemporary and historic hand-bookmaking, they produce physical manifestations of their writers' language. They publish poetry chapbooks, essays on book arts and book culture, poetry journals, and other materials exploring the boundaries of poetry, poetics, and artist books.
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