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Year
Printed and bound in a limited edition of 50
Toronto, August 2005
$15.00 CAD

I remember this sensation.
It is like Yehuda Amichai's problem of architects in an old city:
"How to start loving again? How to build where houses once stood, so that it will look like those times, but also, like now?"

Year is a book about the seasonal shifts of coming to know Love, in its various incarnations. It is also about the daily effort of building a Life-- an effort that hardly feels like work.

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Order this title in a set with "Day" by Shannon Gerard and save moolah! "A Year and a Day" for $25.00 (order set below)

DAY
Four poems by Shannon Gerard
Book design inspired by Maeve Hanna
Printed and bound in a limited edition of 50
Toronto, July 2005
$15.00 CAD

How long will you stay? For how long will you be the focus of my dreaming and the gentle centre of my rest?

The four books in this mini-series are small enough to be bound inside a pill-box, with different tiny treasures in each compartment. They are just wee enough to reflect the troublesome brevity of a day and just obsessive enough to reflect the narrow fears of a whole life.

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Order this title in a set with "Year" by Shannon Gerard and save moolah! "A Year and a Day" for $25.00 (order set below)

A Year and a Day

Order this title in a set with "Year" by Shannon Gerard and save moolah! "A Year and a Day" for $25.00 (order set below)

wot i think. volumes 1 and 3 are the only issues left of a trilogy of early ponderings by the infamous stef lenk. these 'zines were produced back in 2001-2002 as an attempt to round up the scattered detritus of stef's brain. included are articles such as "a treatise on the heightened and reverent nature of authors", "Ikea: a funny kind of fascism", "facts and stats from the brain that wouldn't die", and praises on the virtues of rational thought. also included are earlier drawings and other fascinating visual minutiae.

Something for Michael, Volume 1
Nervous Beginnings
By Shannon Gerard
Printed at Open Studio, Toronto, August 2004
ISBN 0-9736411-0-X

"Words arranged linearly never tell the truth."

The first in a series of 3 volumes, Something for Michael 1 begins with a fundamental question of exodus˜-How can you be gone?

These strange, hiccupping books follow the crooked course life can take toward that weird place of solitude and an admission that the really good answers are never traceable along straight lines anyway.

This first cozy volume sets the pace in a non-linear narrative sequence about the things that comprise a life˜-loss and human intimacy and random grace.

All 3 volumes have been hand-screened, painted, written and bound in limited editions of 50.
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Something for Michael, Volume 2
Stones and Ghosts
by Shannon Gerard
Printed at York University, Toronto, October 2004
ISBN 0-9736411-1-8

"Today I think you are not a real man at all but just a distant thunderstorm-- I can feel you coming along the fault lines of old wounds, like the rain that registers in a once broken bone.

I need an answer to this watery thing inside of me that recognizes you-- this something deep inside that wants to call out your name in the dark, or to find your hands, or to close my eyes and run my fingers over your face until I have it memorized, or to search with my nose and mouth and fingers until I touch the precise centre of you and where it hurts."

The densely layered information and carefully hand-worked pages of this second volume speak with the same compulsive sweetness of the narrative itself. The book sifts through various sediments of human experience with a kind of gentle bewilderment. Hopefully the mystery of the answers will be different for every reader.

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Something for Michael, Volume 3
Girl On Girl
By Shannon Gerard
Printed at York University, Toronto, November 2004
ISBN 0-9736411-2-6

"Who wrote that story about the guy and the cow? Was it C.S. Lewis?

That one where the protagonist gets to the end of his journey only to discover that he‚s been tricked into believing milk and shit are the same thing just because they both come from the same animal.

Someone hands the guy a glass and he goes, „No, this can‚t be milk. It‚s so delicious, and look at the colour!"

And they go, "Dude. What have you been drinking?"

And he says, "You know. Milk. It's brown, kinda sludgey, tastes like˜ oh my god!"

Ever get a similar feeling about your life?"

Girl on Girl is the most fractured volume in the Michael series. A collection of mini-books packaged in one box, volume three considers the idea of capacity -- What is the capacity of a container to hold its contents? What is the capacity of a human life to carry various meanings at once?

Do you sometimes feel like a museum of ideas instead of a unified piece?

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Hung no. 1, Never Odd Or Even
By Shannon Gerard
Stone Lithographs printed at York University, Toronto,
September 2004-February 2005
Book Printing by CJ Graphics, Toronto, May 2005.
ISBN 0-9736411-3-4

"Since you left, I have been thinking quite a bit about trees."

The HUNG series walks a thin line between autobiography and myth, exploring some of the basic tensions between fact and fiction in life writing practices. The palindrome title of HUNG no.1, "Never Odd or Even" further illuminates these tensions and reflects the conjoined relationship between narrative and visual information in the comic book format itself.

Produced as a series of stone lithography prints, and available now in book form, "Hung no.1; Never Odd or Even" is the first chapter in an on-going, autobiographical series.

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