Slender Volumes
POEMS BY RICHARD VON STURMER
SHORTLISTED for
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Elaborating on kōans collected by poet-philosopher Eihei Dōgen, Slender Volumes fastens centuries and distances together to find insight in everyday things: seagulls on a handrail, insects drinking from a pan of water, sump oil glistening in a white bucket.
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About
leaf litter
broken twigs
scat
a spoor is a scent
a track or trail
a trace of an animal
up ahead.
The name is inspired by our whippet Mishti Boy. Dogs read the world with their noses to the ground, using a spoor to trace where other animals have been and track where they’re going. The metaphor captures what books have been for readers: a way to spoor through the dense thicket of ideas towards imaginative clearings.
PHOTO
Balamohan Shingade and Erena Shingade with Mishti Boy.CONTACT
spoorbooks@gmail.comDISTRIBUTION & STOCKISTS
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NGĀ MIHI
Our heartfelt thank you to Katie Kerr for design, Foundation Northfor funding, Peter Dowling for guidance, and Rosabel Tan for conversations.