Hungry Ghost Blues by Roberto Marra (Image Maker) / Katabasis by Agata Mociani (Poet)
This book is part of the Fall 2024 collection of the French Letter Society, to be released on November 8th, 2024. Each French Letter combines an original poem and visual art insert, in numbered literary letterpress chapbooks – 100 copies of each title, in printed envelopes, in 2024.
Someone Editions: French Letter Society
The French Letter Society is a collective publishing initiative that offers a platform to emerging artists and writers. By producing book objects that disrupt the traditional form and authority of the book, FLS deconstructs preconceived notions about print.
Hungry Ghost Blues / Katabasis
Robert Marra is a Toronto-born visual artist and registered psychotherapist. Marra's work is contemporary in method and walks the line between painting and sculpture. He has exhibited his work in Ontario, Vancouver, and central Italy (ceramics), and was the featured artist at the Italian Cultural Institute in June of 2023 during Italian Cultural Heritage Month.
Marra's art is included in public and private collections as well as in numerous books of poetry. He is the author of the long concrete poem The Word (Lyricalmyrical Press) and he co-authored The Emu Dialogues (Quattro Books).A. Mociani is a poet and writer from Toronto. She is a 2023 graduate of the University of Toronto’s Book and Media Studies program and has been the social media coordinator at Someone Editions since April 2024. After acquiring her BA, she spent a year studying Publishing at Toronto Metropolitan University before beginning a Master of Information at her alma mater. She has half a decade of experience in literary content creation and spends her free time writing poetry, organizing community literary events, and working as an archival assistant.