Cover Reveal: My Ardent Love for the Pencil by Vi Khi Nao
We are pleased to reveal the cover for Vi Khi Nao’s poetry collection, My Ardent Love for the Pencil, which will be released in September.
David Wojciechowski designed the cover. David has worked with the author on a previous book cover, and he also designed the covers for several Malarkey titles, including The Great Atlantic HIghway and Other Stories by Steve Gergley and I Blame Myself But Also You by Spencer Fleury.
The artwork for the cover is a drawing titled “Fish and Sun” by Jörn Budesheim, who graciously allowed us to use his art. You can see much more of his art on instagram @j.p.budesheim.
My Ardent Love for the Pencil is now open for preorders. Vi will be signing some copies. Vi Khi Nao’s silky, liminal, novella-like poems dissolve the boundaries between photography, love, and literature, merging them into a single, pulsing reality—where a pencil is a lover, friendships and family flicker like matchsticks in a typhoon, and literature hacks up dry ink like a body straining against emphysema.
Praise for Vi Khi Nao
“We are no longer used to the heart’s engine revving with such quiet, lonely, insistent, anatomical intensity. Not so many people have traveled in Vi Khi Nao’s language mind before. Here is your ticket, a vagrant fragrance.”
— C.D. Wright
"Vi Khi Nao is an unstoppable genius.”
— Garielle Lutz
"Once again, Vi Khi Nao models an achievement of possibilities: an avalanche of the imagination that disintegrates the lines separating feelings from thought, the spirit from the natural world, and reveals how language, light and touch thread us into fuller sense of ourselves. Reading this book is to be shrouded in her magic and to experience the likelihood of floating, especially at the level of the eye and desire.”
— Major Jackson
For the rest of June you can get 20% off this title with code PENCIL at checkout.
Preorder My Ardent Love for the Pencil at malarkeybooks.com.