The Velvet Wire Handmade Edition

Lokta bound cover papers
Interior printed on rice paper
with metallic silk screen lettering
with hand-stitching and sewing machine binding
10" x 13"
26 pages

The second edition
(handmade version) of
The Velvet Wire by Anne Waldman & No Land
available Dec 1 from Translucent Flower Press

This Second edition conceived by No Land
Following the original celebrated first edition by Granary Books
Printed & handbound by Liv forcey Rodriguez
& Iliana Lara. Silkscreen covers by Tom miller in Boulder Colorao.
on Paper from peacock shop, Nepal.
Design: Laura Duval & NL
Cover Photo by Suzanne Goldenberg & designed by No Land.

Praise For The Velvet Wire:

“A sacred text and unique art work— The Velvet Wire is a poet’s shrine to the shared interior and telepathic relationship between Anne Waldman & No Land. It’s a relic of how poets sustain one another through attention, care, and through the cultivation of lineages across generational lines. It’s also a teaching on how to survive— how to offer sustenance and exuberance, one to the other.”
– Bradley King

“When you find The Velvet Wire and look inside, you will encounter two endangered species in mythic dialogue. There is no dialectical equation, no conclusion; only two candle wicks held to the same invisible source. The elder and younger disappear, one into the other. Neither admiring nor teaching, simply walking the path of devotion through the power of belief, dignity like prayer flags eaten by the wind above a stupa. flecks of gold on black paper. the beat of typewriter keys, ambisonic wings. Velvet Wire is holy because it’s not for sale.” – Oliver Ray

“And I, as thought tipping a pitcher of milk
pour secrecy upon the dying page” – Gregory Corso
Indeed many of our peers have died, Gregory, too
of course, as the millennium charts its course,
through the heavenly web, This book is a new chapter
in the ongoing collaboration of AW & NL,
chance encounter morphing into a decade
or more of collaborative exchange.
It is also a new tractates of ‘sisterhood’, indeed
a new level, integrating scripture, sketch, & design,
in a communication, both esoteric & accessible, both chaotic
& erudite in exposition. IRA & Gregory awake fr. their
tombs, to behold the ongoing. poetic awakening,
this text reads like a libretto of the future.
– Louise Landes Levi

Read about The Velvet Wire in The November 2024 Brooklyn Rail:
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/11/art_books/no-land-and-anne-waldman-the-velvet-wire/