ACHERON

"Acheron" from CHTHONIC: a COLORING book by Troy Kehm-Goins.

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but a kind of yearning has hold of me—to die
and to look upon the dewy lotus banks
of Acheron

—from poetry fragment #95 by Sappho
translated by Anne Carson,
as found in If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho

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a kind of longing has seized me to die
and see the dewy banks of Acheron
covered in lotus...

—from poetry fragment #95 by Sappho
translated by Philip Freeman,
as found in Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

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but a longing seizes me to die
and see the dewy
lotus banks of the Aheron

—from poetry fragment #95 by Sappho
translated by Willis Barnstone,
as found in The Complete Poems of Sappho
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the egg sac of existence
the eye of the stream
the dream, O, the dream

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Detail of "The Caress of Sorrow (Acheron)" by Troy's Work Table. Sidewalk chalk, chalk paint, charcoal on chalkboard.

APRIL BOOK EXPO

Troy's Work Table Publishing will be selling poetry chapbooks, calendars, sets of homemade sidewalk chalk, and past issues of the Les Sar'Zine literary journal at the APRIL Book Expo from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday 20 March 2016.

Plus, it will be one of the first opportunities to purchase the brand new Chthonic coloring book, based upon chalk art by Troy Kehm-Goins.

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Other small presses and independent literary voices at the APRIL Book Expo include:
Copper Canyon Press
Melville House
The Seattle Review of Books
Tavern Books
Wave Books
ZAPP, the Zine Archive and Publishing Project
and many more

LOCAL ARTIST FAIR

Troy's Work Table Publishing will be selling poetry chapbooks, calendars, sets of homemade sidewalk chalk, and past issues of the Les Sar'Zine literary journal at Destiny City Comics from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday 19 March 2016.

Plus, it will be the first opportunity to purchase the brand new Chthonic coloring book, based upon chalk art by Troy Kehm-Goins.

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Other artists include:
James Stowe of Sidekick Quests
Mark Brill, the Brillustrator
Brandon Pierce of Pet Projects
Greg Smith of Junior Braves of the Apocalypse
Anne Smith of Sweetgyrl Designs

WRATH and FEAR

"The Mennonite watches the enshadowed dark before them as it is reflected to him in the mirror over the bar. He turns to them. His eyes are wet, he speaks slowly. The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman's making onto a foreign land. Ye'll wake more than the dogs."

—page 43, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

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"All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and livid like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear."

—page 49, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

WHALE SONG

"Whale Song" by Troy's Work Table. Carport chalking for Friday 04 March 2016.

 Sidewalk chalk, charcoal.

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View more pictures of "Whale Song" HERE.