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Hensley House now has a store where you can buy all our wares, including Monolith, Abstract Series and East Sound. The store is secure and 24/7 accessible. If you have any questions, send them to monolith.magazine@gmail.com. More coming soon!

NOW AVAILABLE:

Fourth in the Abstract Series

East Sound 12″

Monolith 1 and 2

COMING PRONTO:

Monolith Magazine Issue 3!

Two collections of poetry!

Another peek into the Hensley House special edition: EAST SOUND 12″

Paypal or place orders at monolith.magazine@gmail.com. $18 ppd.

HENSLEY HOUSE/MONOLITH MAGAZINE PRESENTS: East Sound 12″
East Sound is the first one-sided vinyl production from the maker(s) of Monolith Magazine and The Abstract Series. Environmental recordings from the far northeast. This record is laced with delicate and robust cadences, soothing, horrifying, outcast in its hidden forgottenness. These are the diamonds in the rough, from a recorder maxed out on ocean sounds, seagull cries, malfunctioning machines, quiet haunting lulls, rainstorms, a cautious harbor warning the seafarers. A record for the contemplative adventurer, the armchair traveler, the restless, the seekers, those estranged from the sea, those familiar with the sea, the landlocked, the waterlogged, the masses hungry for respite. This record is multi-purpose, beneficial to mind expansion exercises. Close eyes, sit still with muscles relaxed, turn the volume up to its maximum capacity, smell the salty northern sea air, feel the sand soft and grainy underneath you. Let the lost dreams return to you. //// 12″ play at any speed, 8 tracks, locked groove. Unique handmade covers: Duotone paper, Maine autumn leaves, lacquer, glue, pencil, stitching.  Edition of 200. Signed and numbered. $18 ppd. For secure Paypal go here.

MONOLITH MAGAZINE PRESENTS: The Abstract Series Issue 3
The Abstract Series has completed the third issue in a series of private amateur cosmos cartographer outlines, diagrams, and sketches. What is hinted at in these pages is a vague decoding of the outer limits, a daily struggle with the unknown, a mind lost in the surrealist activities of alien terrain. Warning to the viewer: do not use these cosmos atlases as actual maps – you will get lost. Our cartographer, though familiar and comfortable with her otherworldly surroundings, is acquainting with and reporting from a universe (multiverse?) of different dimensions. No longitude/latitude in other words. Forget lightyears, gravity, certainly units of measurement, even cellular makeup. Our cosmos cartographer is preparing us for a deeper dive, the progression in her series has been strange and luminous, although symbiotically murky. The unknown is funny like that. //// 8.5″x11″ ten original drawings, handpainted covers, acrylics, stitched binding, signed and numbered edition of 40. First 20 accompanied by hand selected soundtrack. $8 ppd. For secure Paypal go here.

LIMITED SOUNDSPACE COMBO includes:
East Sound 12″ featured cover series + Abstract Series Issue 3 + 11″x17″ poster – $25 ppd. For secure Paypal go here.
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Orderable now. $25 ppd to monolith.magazine@gmail.com.

Straight from the head of Hensley House comes a SPECIAL EDITION COMBO:

THE MONOLOPE: Words and Rhythms. Inside a hand-painted one-of-its-kind
envelope you will find one numbered and signed copy of one of the two previously released Monolith Magazines (bringing them out of their early retirement for salivating obscure off-brand poetry readers), one numbered and signed copy of the new Abstract Series Issue 1 (which itself comes sealed and with hand-selected soundtrack), a HH/MM/AS-produced 11″x17″ original artwork poster, and a sneak preview to a sparkling new venture from Hensley House coming in August 2011.
Signed, sealed, and numbered edition of 10. Paypal to monolith.magazine@gmail.com. $25 ppd.

MORE FOR SALE FROM THE EDITOR’S SECRET DESK:

MM001 – Monolith Magazine 1, the first issue originally released in the dead of winter 2010, sold out. Features 13 poems by 10 writers, outsiders maximum. It is now brought out of retirement in its second edition: weird double-cover with x-ray transparency, stitched binding, with hand-selected soundtrack, 4.5″x5.5″, sealed and numbered edition
of 20. $10 ppd.

MM002 – Monolith Magazine 2 (floating), the second issue originally released in early 2011, sold out. Features 13 poems by 13 writers, outsiders from beyond, all following a steady theme: floating. MM2 is also brought out of its early retirement in its second ever edition: hand-painted covers, stitched binding, with hand-selected soundtrack, 4.5″x5.5″, sealed and numbered edition of 20. $10 ppd.

AS001 – Abstract Series Issue 1, the first issue just released July 2011. Collection of 10 original drawings from Kathleen Hensley, the amateur cosmos cartographer by trade, Harvard lit student by disguise. First edition sold out, now in its second edition. Hand-painted covers, stitched binding, sealed and numbered, with hand-selected soundtrack, 8.5″x11″, edition of 20 (numbered 20-40). $10 ppd.

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Hensley House will be overjoyed at the final production of…  ITS FIRST RECORD!

SOUNDS FROM THE LOST EAST: 12″ vinyl of lost sound, dutifully recorded in the spooky winter months by an anonymous expert meanderer and roamer of hidden quadrants. More details coming in August!

ABSTRACT SERIES ISSUE 002 The evolution of a cosmic cartographer’s trade, scaling profound depths that appear both incomprehensibly nautical and subconsciously functional. Due beginning of August.
AN INCOMPLETE SET A series of distracted literary gazes written while studying Ben Jonson and John Donne, and yet feeling more akin to Rimbaud, poems by Kathleen Hensley. Due early fall.

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From Hensley House comes a Monolith Magazine feature:
The Abstract Series Issue 1 features ten drawings by Kathleen Hensley, all completed in mixed settings, which may account for the geometrically intricate collage of patterns. It’s akin to the scales in a musical composition, more specifically, the visual tracings of Anthony Braxton’s raw mental state. What the viewer will find here is a map to the unconscious: you will not, however, find a trace of directions. This is less a guidebook for the subconscious dwellers than it is the raw collected data from an amateur cartographer of the cosmos. Signed and numbered edition of 20. 8 1/2″x11″, ten pages, stitched binding, hand-painted covers, with artist’s hand-selected soundtrack, sealed. $10 ppd. Paypal to monolith.magazine@gmail.com or go to this secure Paypal link.

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Roberto Bolaño said the Spanish language was his homeland. James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus declares in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, “I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use–silence, exile, and cunning.” Later, in Ulysses, Dedalus deduces to Leopold Bloom, “I suspect that Ireland must be important because it belongs to me.”

Monolith Magazine 3: BORDERS

Accepting submissions of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. No work is to exceed 3,000 words.