Eleni Sikelianos' How to Assemble the Animal Globe

Nous-zōt's Spring 2016 is going out with a BANG! Eleni Sikelianos' gorgeous chapbook How   to   Assemble   the   Animal   Globe, an excerpt from her forthcoming book from Coffee House Press. This mock-up does not give justice to the metallic gold cover or the metallic violet vellum endpaper which will show through where the animal figures will be cut away.

Here is a sample cut-out being laser cut.

How   to   Assemble   the   Animal   Globe  will feature five animal images by artist Christine Lee: an extinct animal from each of the following -- Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe, Australia/Oceania, and Antarctica. This stab-bound chapbook also features removable pages for constructing your own Animal Globe, the sections hand-annotated by Eleni with the names of extinct animals. Available for pre-order at the Nous-zōt online shop.

Sample poem:

Bluebuck 

its blue 

hue

beckoned 

to which side

of blue

it had to drink daily

which made it easy (to shoot) 

eating the best

red grass, spear grass, love grass

blue from dark skin showing thru

If you travel to Uppsalla, Capetown or London you might glimpse one 

of the three remaining pairs of horns

A skull in Glasgow, one in Amsterdam

The four mounted specimens (Vienna, Stockholm, Paris, Leiden)

show no sheen of blue