SAD VACATION PRESS: 2020

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

SV005: LIVE WIRE POEM by Salvador Villanueva, 2020

Get your limited first run of 100, glossy card-stock cover, light-gray interior, hand-assembled, cut, and stapled, 2020, edition of SVPRESS’ seventh production and third single-author issue - Gustavo Rivera's translation from the Spanish of Puerto Rican avant-garde poet Salvador Villanueva's debut collection Poema en alta tensión, originally published in 1974.

It contains a re-interpretation of the original cover and portrait of the poet by digital artist Amanda Peláez, digitization and reproduction of the original drawings by Pablo Romero, the original verse in Spanish, and an introductory essay by the translator.

$10 USD includes domestic shipping.

Email sadvacaygs9@gmail.com to place your order.

Saturday, May 9, 2020

SV004.5X: TEXT IN THE TIME OF THE RONA, Various Contributors, 2020 (a series of literary pamphlet-zines)

SVPRESS’ sixth production and fourth theme: a series of pamphlets produced in response to the effects of the global pandemic that is the Corona Crisis.

SV004.51 is exhausted!

SV004.52 is exhausted!

Each was an original run of 50, two choices of color paper, hand-assembled and cut for size, 2020.

SV004.51 features writing by Mike Ostrov, Maria Ku, and Gustavo Rivera. (check out the online version)

SV004.52 (color) features writing by Connor Orrico and Kruise Waters.

(check out the online version)

80% (or more) of proceeds were donated to Almuerzos Solidarios in San Juan, Puerto Rico, actively feeding those most vulnerable during this Corona Crisis.

Monday, April 20, 2020

SV004: TRAVELS, TRAVAILS, AND INTERVALS, Various Contributors, 2020

Email sadvacaygs9@gmail.com to order your hard copy of SVPRESS’ fifth production and third theme issue.

$10 USD includes domestic shipping.

Original run of 100, card-stock cover, two sets of reverse-matched color printing, hand-assembled and stapled, 2020.

Features writing by Ruben Marx, Anonymous, Nicolas Grenier, Yeon Lards, Salvador Villanueva, Eline Marx, Ashley Danielle Moore, Noah Lebien, Gustavo Rivera, and Kaja Rae Lucas.

A portion of proceeds will be donated to Almuerzos Solidarios in San Juan, Puerto Rico, currently active feeding those most vulnerable during this Corona Crisis.

DOWNLOAD THE PDF FOR FREE - EMAIL SADVACAYGS9@GMAIL.COM TO DONATE TO THE CAUSE

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

SV003: BODEGA POEMS by D. Claude, 2018

Get your digital copy of SVPRESS’ fourth production and second single-author issue.

Original run of 50, card-stock cover, color printing, hand-assembled and stapled, 2018.

Features art by Gustavo Rivera.

SV002: DREAMSCAPES, Various Contributors, 2017

Get your digital copy of SVPRESS’ third production and second theme issue.

Original run of 50, card-stock cover, hand-assembled and stapled, 2017.

Features writing by Joe Wolf, Pete Ives, Phoebe Lifton, Maud Pryor, Jacob Steinberg, Bill Freind, Lillian Currens, David Claude, Alfredo Perezjurado, Jessica Lim, Amoreir Valmog and illustrations by Laure Garreau, from her series Quiescent Person.

SV001: TIMES NEW ROMAN by Nicolas Grenier, 2016

Get your digital copy of SVPRESS’ second production and first single-author issue.

Original run of 50, card-stock cover, hand-assembled and stapled, 2016.

Features art by Ovatsug Arevir.

SV000: INTRODUCTIONS, Various Contributors, 2015

Get your digital copy of SVPRESS’ first production and first theme issue.

Original run of 50, card-stock cover, hand-assembled and stapled, 2015.

Writing by Aaron Demuth, Mark Bauer, Nik Weymouth, Guillaume Tabbs, Gustavo Rivera, Felice Belle, Dylan Werner, Nicolas Grenier, and JD Nelson.

PROGRAMA POLÍTICO (en un estado perpetuo de revolución)

El poder en manos de le productori. Esta habilidad no es un regalo. SVPRESS ha tomado poder sobre sus producciones, con el objetivo de ver esta progresión hacia su resolución natural. En la medida de lo posible, los medios de producción, la tecnología o el espacio, empoderan a quien crea desde principi la obra. ¡Enfrentándose! de frente a las limitaciones de las circunstancias reales, SVPRESS construye los textos desde abajo hacia arriba: comienza con la conceptualización, luego pasa al maketeo digital, hasta terminar en la forma concreta. SVPRESS colabora equitativamente, de acuerdo al contexto de cada colaboradori; por eso siempre está abierto al diálogo.
Romper con el lenguaje como la sociedad civil ha quebrantado el espíritu humano. Nuestras lenguas – nuestro órgano mental – son claves para nuestra humanidad inherente, nuestra psique evolucionada, nos ayuda a sobrevivir a lo largo de la historia. No obstante, esta misma bendición funciona también como nuestro peor veneno. La modernidad tóxica ha hecho que lxs humanxs nos impongamos por encima de la naturaleza. Estas creencias cegadoras desarrollan sistemas nocivos que nos separa de nuestra madre originaria y de/entre nosotres mismes. Bajo el disfraz de la civilización, el lenguaje es herramienta principal de esta represión. Ejemplo de esto lo es la larga historia de leyes injustas amputando nuestra supuesta progresión social humana. Con esto en mente, SVPRESS desafía las formalidades de la civilización recordando que nada es especial; sin embargo, todo contiene belleza: la descomposición es lenguaje. Por esta razón, SVPRESS proporciona espacio a quienes normalmente el cistema descuartiza.
La academia debe ser destruida. No puede ser reestructurada, ya demasiado tiempo por el camino del neoliberalismo y la adoctrinación de la ente individual. En una sociedad retorcida la educación es violencia. Como contrapropuesta, SVPRESS encuentra aprendizaje más allá de las cuatro paredes del salón. Por eso Alice Cooper, un poeta de las tierras de los Anishinaabe, grita, "¡Se acabó la escuela para siempre!"
No hay mendicidad burguesa. La revolución no será concedida después de la fecha límite y menos por personas cuyas posiciones de poder se basan en el statu quo. ¿Pagarán voluntariamente por reparaciones? La clase alta y explotadora, independientemente de los matices, deben perder para lograr el equilibrio. Por tal razón, SVPRESS no solicita financiamiento; sino que implementa una táctica de voluntad, capacidad intelectual, sangre, sudor, lágrimas y otros fluidos corporales.

SVPRESS PROGRAM (in a perpetual state of revolution)

Power in the producer’s hands. This ability is not godsent. SVPRESS has gained power over its productions, aiming to see this progression until its natural resolution. To the extent possible, the means of production, technology or space, empower those who begin the creative process. Confronting! head-on the restraints of circumstances, SVPRESS builds the texts from the bottom-up: ideal conception, to digital formatting, to material reality. SVPRESS collaborates equitably, according to the context of fellow producers. For this reason, SVPRESS is always open to dialogue.
Break the language as civil society has broken the human spirit. Our tongues – our mental organ – are keys to our inherent humanity, our evolved psyches, which have aided our survival through history; yet this same blessing also functions as our worst poison. Toxic modernity has caused humans to impose ourselves over nature. These blinding beliefs lead us to develop all sorts of noxious systems which not only separate us from our original mother but also amongst our fellow peoples. Under the guise of civilization, language is the principal tool of repression, notable in the long history of unjust laws amputating our supposed social progression. For this reason, SVPRESS defies civil society’s formalities, to highlight that nothing is special yet all contains beauty: decay is language. Accordingly, SVPRESS provides a space for those normally butchered by the cistem.
Academia must be burned down. It cannot be reformed for it’s far too gone down the path of neoliberalism, indoctrinating the individual self. In a twisted society, education is violence. At a counterpoint, SVPRESS finds learning beyond the four walls of a classroom. It’s why Alice Cooper, a poet from the lands of the Anishinaabe, yowled, “School’s out forever!”
No bourgeois begging. The revolution will not be granted post-deadline and less so by people whose positions of power rely on the status quo. Will the oppressor willingly pay for reparations? The upper-and-exploiting classes, regardless of nuance, must lose to bring balance. Therefore SVPRESS will never apply for funding; rather, practicing strategic implementation of will, intellectual capacity, blood, sweat, tears, and other bodily fluids.