Claren Grosz, starting with the roof of my mouth

TALK. ABOUT. GORGEOUS. This book from multi-talented super interdisciplinary Toronto-based artists Claren Grosz is going to impress the heck out of you. starting with the roof of my mouth is a long form illustrated poem about being alone. It uses the hobby of noticing as an antidote for being isolated and bored, and invites the reader to participate in the noticing. It measures and documents warping distance and time over the course of 2020, journeying through bed-bound boredom and pining as pastime. The drawings and text feel raw, immediate and deeply personal.

Printed in a limited run of fifty full-freakin’-colour copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook is written and fully illustrated by Claren Grosz. Typeset by Dani Spinosa (but it pretty much came to us beautified like this) and hand-stitched by your fave editors in a chill beige with some not-so-chill red silk thread.

Sample Poem:

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Khashayar Mohammadi, trans. of Death Toll by Nimā Yushij