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​LAZULI READING SERIES
A Curated Reading Experience

​Each Lazuli Reading Series book pairs one contemporary work with carefully curated pieces of classic literature that enhance the flavor, texture, and emotional resonance of the feature work; the aim is to offer an alternative to the prevailing convention that non-fiction scholarly texts are the only worthy appendices to a work of poetry or fiction.

​We are excited to announce that the first book in this series is now available for purchase!​

Read Laylage Courie's poetic drama Intimate Things alongside classic pieces that inform the traditions among which it lives. Medieval, Renaissance, and Modernist writings weave a glittering firefly net--a ripe imaginative palate for Courie's meditation on the legendary romance of Heloise and Abelard. Includes select literary pairings curated by Lazuli Literary Group drawn from the writings of Judith Madan, William Shakespeare, W.H. Auden, Oscar Wilde, Aphra Behn, Alexander Pope, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Chidiock Tichborne, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Wallace Stevens, and W.B. Yeats.
THE SPEECH OF FLOWERS AND VOICELESS THINGS
by Sakina B. Fakhri
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The Speech of Flowers and Voiceless Things is a novel of absurdist political satire. In this work of literary fiction, a mistranslation in a single line of poetry instigates an escalating ripple of misconstrued text that threatens to culminate in a world war over five-pronged forks. 

​Read the first few chapters for FREE here.​
Edited by Sakina B. Fakhri / Illustrated by Evgenia Barsheva
(ISBN: 9780999424384)
Edited by Sakina B. Fakhri / Illustrated by Evgenia Barsheva
(ISBN: 9780999424377)
Edited by Sakina B. Fakhri / Illustrated by Evgenia Barsheva
(ISBN: 978-0999424353)
Edited by Sakina B. Fakhri & Diana McClure / Illustrated by Evgenia Barsheva
(ISBN: 9780999424346)
Featuring work by Beatriz Seelaender, V.B. Borjen, Joachim Glage, Habib Mohana, Heikki Huotari, Sean S. Bentley, Remy Ngamije, Jesse Hilson, Kelli Russell Agodon, DF Short, Vivek V. Narayan, Stephen Massimilla, Christopher Pieterszoon Routheut, yours truly the happy recluse, Sara Streett, Peter Freund, Jim Shankman, M. Ann Reed, Laylage Courie, and Nicole Vento.
Edited by Diana McClure & Sakina B. Fakhri / Illustrated by Evgenia Barsheva
(ISBN: 978-0-99-942433-9)
Featuring work by Beatriz Seelaender, Twixt,  Joanne B. Mulcahy, Kenneth Hanes, Ouita Rogers, Linda Dennard, Debbie Fox, M. Ann Reed, Omar Sabbagh, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Don Dussault, Christien Gholson, Franco Strong, Ben Colandrea, Devon Ortega,  JayJay Conrad, Logo Wei, Osamase Ekhator, Vivek V. Narayan, Melinda Giordano
Edited by Sakina B. Fakhri & Diana McClure / Illustrated by Evgenia Barsheva
(ISBN: 978 0-99-942432-2)
Featuring work by James Blevins, Susan Brennan, V.B. Borjen, Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller, Natalie Crick, Barbara Daddino, Alan Flurry, Daniel Freeman, Lara Lillibridge, JWM Morgan, Janet M. Powers, M.K. Rainey, Sam Reese, Malorie Seeley-Sherwood, Freya Shipley, Sarah T., & Dan Wood
Edited by Diana McClure & Sakina B. Fakhri / Illustrated by Evgenia Barsheva
(ISBN: 978-0-99-942430-8)
Featuring work by Barbara Daddino, William Doreski, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Nancy Flynn, Danny Judge, Mark P. Lawley, Joseph Lisowski, Kirk Marshall, Franco Strong, Sarah T.,  Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca, Monika McGreal Viola, Susan E. Wadds, & Ferguson Williams.
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