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An ode to nature, poetry and design. In a vertigo between an art book and a book of discovery, this work is a voyage into the poetic land of Nahuatl, an exploration of the literature of the Song of Flowers.It is complemented by an essay by Alberto Manguel on song and flowers in world literature. Accessible and demanding, the book is made-to-measure with natural, low-resource-consumption fibers derived from wine-growing.In Nahuatl, a language spoken in central Mexico since the 7th century, poetry is designated by a pair of metaphors, Ni Xochitl Ni Kuikatl, flower, song. This term describes the poetry as an ephemeral moment of beauty and truth, symbolized by the flower and the song. It is an elevation, an outpouring that is expressed. The flower reaches for the sky and the song soars into the air.At the heart of this still too little-known literary continent, poetry is not that activity of writing. It unfolds above all through song, and is intimately linked to the surrounding vegetation

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Lina Scheynius' rawest book, where urgency meets decay and where she exposes Eros and Thanatos together stronger than ever. After the boxed edition of her first 11photographic autobiographies in 2019,Lina Scheynius returns to JBE Books to publish the books in singular volumes opuses 12, 13 and 14 of theMy Photo Bookscollection. An invitation to witnessthe everyday, but also to encounterand transcend many formal limits, these books deploy the contemplativecarnation so characteristicof Lina Scheynius.

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Intimacy, in all its depth and truth, too rawfor social networks, finds its place in threenew books, with the distinctive signatureof Lina Scheynius. After the boxed edition of her first 11photographic autobiographies in 2019,Lina Scheynius returns to JBE Books to publish the books in singular volumes opuses 12, 13 and 14 of theMy Photo Bookscollection. An invitation to witnessthe everyday, but also to encounterand transcend many formal limits, these books deploy the contemplativecarnation so characteristicof Lina Scheynius.

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2009-2010: a year of rawfilm with over 400 photos, an invitation to witness every day and a new approach for Lina Scheynius. After the boxed edition of her first 11photographic autobiographies in 2019,Lina Scheynius returns to JBE Books to publish the books in singular volumes opuses 12, 13 and 14 of theMy Photo Bookscollection. An invitation to witnessthe everyday, but also to encounterand transcend many formal limits, these books deploy the contemplativecarnation so characteristicof Lina Scheynius.

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