I happened upon this at the bookstore the other day and thought it looked interesting.
Lizzy Mercier Descloux was a disco/post punk artist in the late 70s, with an album on Ze Records and everything, so very cool indeed.
I put her album on before starting to read the book:
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This starts with a text by Patti Smith…
… and then there’s various poems presumably by Mercier Descloux, and also collages and drawings.
It’s got a very fanziney vibe going on… I’m not really sure the poems are, er, all that rewarding.
It turns out that this was originally published in 1977 in French in France, and the second half of the book (flipped over) has the original version. So this is a facsimile of a fanzine, and then a translation, all in one.
It’s kinda neat, but it’s printed on super duper white, shiny paper, which just seems wrong for a fanzine facsimile.
Desiderata (1977/2022) by Lizzy Mercier Descloux (buy new, buy used, 3.64 on Goodreads)