Rebecca Comay / Cary Fagan
$6
Beer, light, Portuguese, German, English; how brittle is old paper in the seller’s hand.
The battered brass weight hung so heavily between her fingers.
Authors’ Note
In February and March of 2019, we spent several weeks in Lisbon. One of us wrote a sentence in a blank notebook and handed it to the other who wrote a sentence in return. This handing back and forth occurred about once a day until we left the city for home.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Rebecca Comay teaches philosophy and comparative literature at The University of Toronto. Her books include Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Stanford UP) and The Dash-The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Frank Ruda, MIT Press). Her next book, On Persistence is the first of two essay collections forthcoming from Seagull Books. She is a co-editor of the chapbook house, espresso. More work can be seen at rebeccacomay.com
Cary Fagan is the author of eight novels and six story collections as well as many books for children. Just published are A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News (book*hug) and Robot Island (Tundra Books). His novel, Still the World, will appear in 2027. He is a co-editor of the chapbook house, espresso, and the publisher of Found Object, which focuses on bringing work back into print. His books can he seen at caryfagan.com.
This is Fagan's third title through above/ground press, after Fifty-Two Lines About Henry (2024) and then / here / now / there (2025).
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