Lemures Books is a publishing outfit I started with my wife Madeline in 2021. We focus on publishing experimental poetry and chess related materials.
Forthcoming Titles:
- The Last Joy by Emmy Hennings (trans. Kristopher Biernat)
- &c. :Haiku by Various (trans. Kristopher Biernat)
- Chess and Myth by Fernando Arrabal (trans. Kristopher Biernat)
- Untitled Renga Project by Paul Lastovica, Lachlan J. McDougall, and Kristopher Biernat.
- Saleté Volume One
Modern Editions (Lemures Books(tuff) 2026-present)
- The Morals of Chess by Benjamin Franklin
Lemures Books(tuff) Chapbook No. 1
Edition of 26 handmade, signed (by the editor), and lettered copies. Features a sketch by Marcel Duchamp. - Broadside No. 1
Edition of 8 signed and numbered copies. Features a polaroid by Kristopher Biernat, and a line from his upcoming collection Orpheus’ Clock of Snow. Each comes with an original polaroid.
Previous Titles (Lemures Books 2021-2025):
- garden of eden///gulf of mexico by Kristopher Biernat (OOP)
- et la pluie dit by Kristopher and Madeline Biernat (OOP)
- Bathwater: Selected Archive 2010-2025 by Kristopher Biernat (OOP)
- Inventory Clerk by Paul Lastovica (POD)
- Biscayne Dance by Shea O’Connor (POD)
- Instrumentals by Jonel Abellanosa (OOP)
- Blue as an Orange (online, defunct)
Contributors: Jonel Abellanosa, Dee Allen, Nadia Arioli, Tohm Bakelas, Robert Beveridge, Ace Boggess, Krystyna Curtis, Adrian David, Howie Good, John Grey, Ed Higgins, Paul Ilechko, Tim Kahl, Rus Khomutoff, Peter J. King, Paul R. Lastovica, Edward Lee, Lachlan J. McDougall, Bob McNeil, Mark J. Mitchell, Frederick Pollack, Aldo Quagliotti, RUNA, T. E. Secor, Dick Westheimer, Rosaline Winters, Laszlo Aranyi, Glen Armstrong, Morgan Boyer, Drew Campbell, Bob Carlton, Alexis Choi, petro c. k., Gabriel Coffman, AK Cola, Peter Dabbene, R. Gerry Fabian, Italo Ferrante, Connor Fisher, Danny D. Ford, Orlando Garcia, Ed Go, C.H. Gorrie, Michael Haller, Charlie Hanlon, A.J. Huffman, Heikki Huotari, Shae Krispinsky, Ethan Leventhal, Katherine MacCue, Joshua Martin, David P. Miller, Babak Movahed, Akshaya Pawaskar, Marc Phillips, Fabrice Poussin, Nancy Machlis Rechtman, Jake Sheff, Benjamin James Smith, Edward Michael Supranowicz, John Tustin, Matthew Wallenstein, Vin Whitman, Jennifer Woodworth, and Mark Young.
