Electric Bathtub Psalms - More Audio

The first sales of Electric Bathtub Psalms shipped out yesterday, and Mariette and I are really delighted by the response we've had so far.

To celebrate the launch, I'm posting another audio sample from the book that also appeared in the installation "Love Song 4.22" at Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn in April. A description and illustration of the installation are also included in the book. 

Here's Mariette's description of the recording:

"I recorded this piece two years after it was written so I could install as part of a piece on cyberspace. The installation piece and the poem now share the same name. Love Song 4/22 was produced by David Maurice and includes field recordings taken by me. It is an emotional tribute to ballads and to the natural world."

Electric Bathtub Psalms - Now Available!

Electric Bathtub Psalms, the first book of poetry by Mariette Papic, is now available in a limited edition, hand-sewn chapbook with french watercolor paper covers tea-dyed and hand silk-screened by Mariette and Nathan Reimer. The limited edition chap is $17.00, and can be purchased here via PayPal.

Shipping will be modified for orders of multiple copies and international orders. A saddle-stitch chapbook will be available in November.

The Corn Plastic Dancefloor

I'm slowly beginning to assemble the limited editions of Mariette Papic's Electric Bathtub Psalms. In the meantime, here is a link to one of Mariette's current projects over at dublit.com. Mariette has been involved in New York nightlife for many years - as promoter, documentor, flyer designer, and as the pretty girl in the coat with the big fur collar presiding over the velvet rope at that club on 13th Street, you know the one. Her audio piece "The Corn Plastic Dancefloor" documents one night in that world.

Covers for Electric Bathtub Psalms

The covers for the limited edition of Mariette Papic's Electric Bathtub Psalms have arrived, and they're wonderful.


The cover art illustration is by Mariette Papic with screen printing by New York street artist and photographer Nathan Reimer. I really love the interpretation they did of the mouse logo on the back cover.


The paper is archival quality, pressed in France and hand-dyed in a tea bath (PG Tips!) in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

I've been practicing my binding knots and will begin assembling them as soon as Mariette has approved her blue-line copy. Pre-orders through PayPal will be available on the website probably next week.