The first Bacchus Editions Pocket Detonation book has completed its first print run and is now available in the bookshop. This first one is written by moi. We have been looking forward to sharing these for quite some time. Have a little read..
Sometimes people wonder why so many years have passed et one is still happily wandering around in the company of the same people. The fact that many of them have been dead for a century is largely irrelevant. ;) The answer, at least for us, is affinity. Every now and then one encounters a person who appears to have arrived at similar conclusions by entirely different roads. Tiens… toi aussi.
Pocket Detonations grew out of that feeling.
They are the smaller objects that tend to emerge whenever one spends an unreasonable amount of time in the company of people like Zo d’Axa. They are highly focused, collectible little books devoted to the ideas, instincts, habits, questions, and peculiar discoveries that first drew us toward these lives in the first place.
They are also simply meant to be enjoyable. Fun little books to carry around, lend to friends, tuck onto shelves, collect as the series grows, et peut-être leave behind in the occasional café.
We are absurdly excited about these. They came out exactly as we hoped. Quelle joie !
Pocket Detonations No. 1
ZO D’AXA AND THE SECRET DOOR
If you have spent any time at all in the company of Zo d’Axa, there is one theme that is impossible to ignore. Again et again, whenever walls appeared, he managed to locate the exit. Some of us know that exit well. Others may never have considered looking for one. Either way, la porte est ouverte, the door is open!
Inside you’ll also find collage art assembled from rare archival materials, little artworks created by rascals, and the only surviving photographs of Zo d’Axa’s wife, generously entrusted to me by Béatrice Arnac, Zo’s granddaughter.
Bienvenue to the very first Pocket Detonation!
Fresh off the press and waiting in the bookshop, ici: Zo d’Axa and the Secret Door.
Pour toute la pagaille et tout le plaisir,
xo, Fíona 🌹
