Introducing Pocket Detonations with the release of Book 1: Zo d’Axa and the Secret Door
New Series: Pocket Detonations! First Book, Zo d’Axa and the Secret Door!
The first Bacchus Editions Pocket Detonation has completed its first print run and is now available in the bookshop. Written by our own Fíona Simone Vivienne, we have been looking forward to sharing this one for quite some time.
Sometimes people wonder why so many years have passed and one is still happily wandering around in the company of the same people. The fact that many of them have been dead for a century seems largely irrelevant. The answer, at least for us, is affinity. Every now and then one encounters a person who appears to have arrived at similar conclusions by entirely different roads.
Pocket Detonations grew out of that feeling.
They are the smaller objects that tend to emerge whenever one spends an unreasonable amount of time in the company of people like Zo d'Axa. Highly focused and eminently collectible, each volume follows a single thread through the life of a remarkable individual, not in search of a complete biography, but in pursuit of the idea, instinct, image, or recurring question that first made us stop and pay attention.
They are also simply meant to be enjoyable. Fun little books to carry around, lend to friends, tuck onto shelves, and collect as the series grows.
We are absurdly excited about these. They came out amazing!
Pocket Detonations No. 1
ZO D'AXA AND THE SECRET DOOR
The first Pocket Detonation could only have belonged to Zo d'Axa.
Journalist, vagabond, editor, escape artist, and one of the most elusive figures in French individualist anarchism, Zo possessed an uncanny habit. Again and again, whenever walls appeared, he somehow managed to locate the exit.
After spending years in his company, that was one theme that seemed impossible to ignore.
Some of us know that exit well. Others may never have considered looking for one.
Either way, the door is open!
Illustrated throughout with original collage work assembled from rare archival materials, created by rascals, and including the only surviving photographs of Zo d'Axa's wife, generously entrusted to Bacchus Editions by Béatrice Arnac, Zo's granddaughter, this first Pocket Detonation marks the beginning of a new series that will accompany our larger translation and archival work for years to come.
Welcome to the first Pocket Detonation.
Fresh off the press and waiting in the bookshop here