Moving Parts

Moving PartsSurreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. In a pink walled motel, a teenage prostitute brings a grown man to tears. A love struck young boy holds the dismembered hand of his crush, only to find himself the object of a complex mnage trois. A naked body falls from the window of a twenty story building, while two female office workers offer each other consolation in the elevator In these wry and unsettling stories, Prabda

The poem was translated by Mia You

and from the habitual to now ravaged

our trusty guide for nocturnal nourishment

and Catherine Perret (philosopher

was always estranged and estranging

The starting point is the personal approach of the subject by the author

including chairs

Sheikhov plies the same route

Portugal and Japan to work with various traditions of ceramic crafts

many of them faced being relocated or torn down

Joannie Baumgärtner

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