Oh, 2013. You were a good one. We just wish we could wrap you up in a nice bundle and keep you forever. However, as our scientists have yet to figure out a way to turn time into a concrete, consumable object, we are left instead with books. To make up for science’s disappointing failure, Les Figues Press is happy to fill your end-of-year needs with a special end of the year discount and four impeccably crafted bundles of books: Constrain Your Self, Translating the Words, Some Kind of Body, and The Rosenfield Collection.

You can take 20% off all book orders site-wide by using the code “SOGOES2013” at checkout. (Discount expires 12/31/13; does not apply to memberships or specially-priced book bundles listed below.)

Constrain Your Self

To bundle as in to tie or wrap together or perhaps even to constrain a gift within an obscuring container. Thus, a book. Thus, specifically, an Oulipian or constraint-based book. Thus, this set of Les Figues books writing with constraints that comes wrapped in the most unmarked brown paper wrapping that one can find:

• By Kelman Out of Pessoa by Doug Nufer
• Dies: A Sentence by Vanessa Place
• Not Blessed by Harold Abramowitz
• Sonnet 56 by Paul Hoover
• The /n/oulipian Analects ed. by Christine Wertheim and Matias Viegener
• Words of Love by Mark Rutkoski

Retail: $100
Bundles are no longer available. Check back at the end of 2014 to see what we bundle up next!

Translating the Words

A wise man once said “All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.” From translations to transcreations, these Les Figues books will refuse steadfastly to show you the real world or the real meaning, as the key tumbles ceaselessly in the lock:

• A Happy Man and Other Stories by Axel Thormählen, trans. by Marianne Thormählen
• Babyfucker by Urs Allemann, trans. by Peter Smith
• Negro Marfil/Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona, trans. by Jen Hofer
• Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic by Chris Tysh
• The Field by Martin Glaz Serup, trans. by Christopher Sand-Iversen
• Voice of Ice/Voix de Glace by Alta Ifland

Retail: $88
Bundles are no longer available. Check back at the end of 2014 to see what we bundle up next!

Some Kind of Body

What is one’s self? What does it mean to consider a self, a body, a collection of atoms, cells, thoughts, memories, intentions, contentions, histories, truths, lies, and multi-dimensional existences? How does one give the gift of a self to one’s own self or to another self?

• Chop Shop by Stephanie Taylor
  
• Cunt Norton by Dodie Bellamy
• For Want and Sound by Melissa Buzzeo
• in the plain turn of the body makes a sentence by Sissy Boyd
• Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents by Alex Forman
• The Memoirs of JonBenet by Kathy Acker by Michael du Plessis

Retail: $90
Bundles are no longer available. Check back at the end of 2014 to see what we bundle up next!

The Rosenfield Collection

Start or complete your Kim Rosenfield collection with this Les Figues set, featuring re:evolution from TrenchArt: Tracer, a signed copy of Lividity from TrenchArt: Surplus, and the limited edition 13-card set Micro-Conversations by Klaus Killich in collaboration with Rosenfield and signed by author and artist (see more about Micro-Conversations here):

• re: evolution
• Lividity
• Micro-Conversations

Retail: $65
Bundles are no longer available. Check back at the end of 2014 to see what we bundle up next!

Don’t see one of your favorite figs above? We’re running low on some of our titles, so secure your copy now and don’t miss out! (Remember, take 20% off all individual book purchases with code “SOGOES2013” at checkout.)