Bird Ladder Sky Snake
Autor Rikki Ducornet, Fowzia Karimien Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 apr 2027
For years, Rikki Ducornet and Fowzia Karimi have been exchanging dreams: one records her dreams as prose poems or stories, and the other illustrates them. The result is Bird Ladder Sky Snake, a book that resists categorization just as surely as our dreams resist our attempts at analysis or instruction: it is a memoir, an art book, a dream journal, a folk narrative, and can be flipped and read in two directions. Read one way, the dreamer is Karimi, with illustrations by Ducornet; the other, the dreamer is Ducornet, with illustrations by Karimi. “Dreams,” Karimi writes, “are the source and substance of myth, prophecy, art, and invention; they have always shaped our lives.” Bird Ladder Sky Snake is an invitation to dream alongside two prolific artists, to follow their muse, and to slip between realms of existence.
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Fowzia Karimiis a writer and visual artist whose work weaves fable, dream, memory, and natural history, while exploiting the interplay between text and image on the page. She is the author and illustrator ofAbove Us the Milky Way(Deep Vellum, 2020), a personal abecedarium chronicling war, migration, beauty, longing and loss. Karimi has illustrated both fiction and essay, includingSmall Pieces(Dalkey Archive Press, 2023) by Micheline Aharonian Marcom, andFaust(Deep Vellum, 2021) by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner. She is the recipient of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, the Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, the Balcones Prize for Fiction, and the Writers’ League of Texas Discovery Prize.
Rikki Ducornet is a transdisciplinary artist. Her work is animated by an interest in nature, Eros, tyranny and the transcendent capacities of the creative imagination. She is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist, and her fiction has been translated into fifteen languages. Her art has been exhibited internationally, most recently with Amnesty International’s traveling exhibit I Welcome, focused on the refugee crisis. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard College Arts and Letters Award, the Prix Guerlain, a Critics’ Choice Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her novel The Jade Cabinet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.