Diptych I
Nasim Luczaj, Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli
£12.99
Oblique House is excited to introduce the first issue of our dual-pamphlet series Diptych.
This volume features Ultraviolet with Landing Marks by Nasim Luczaj and Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli's How to Repair an Echo.
Praise for Ultraviolet with Landing Marks
Nasim Luczaj is an extraordinary new voice. — Pascale Petit
Luczaj’s diction is entirely her own, her image and phrase-making entirely original and revivifying, and yet her concerns are eternal, her gaze long, her eye generous and connective. — Declan Ryan
A poet of fierce intellect and vivid empathy. — Karen McCarthy Woolf
Praise for How to Repair an Echo
Yearning, cinematic, labyrinthian. — Caroline Bird, author of These Days of Prohibition, shortlisted for the T.S. Elliot Prize
A rare book of luminous qualities. Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli transforms the labyrinth into a shared apartment, a lover’s kitchen, the river of memory into a metaphor for desire. Each poem invites us into a correspondence between lovers who are both hunters and hunted, tender and treacherous, building and unbuilding each other one room at a time. These poems remind us that queering a myth is not merely changing its ending but questioning who becomes the monster, who the beloved, and how we choose to guide each other home. — Leo Boix, author of Southernmost: Sonnets, shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Collection
Cenciarelli writes with as much aching clarity about language, history, and narrative as he does desire and devotion. How to repair an echo unfolds as a gorgeous conversation, across two lovers and many generations of myths — of masculinity and inheritance, of strength as force and fear — filling the untold gaps with utter tenderness. This collection contains a wild capaciousness, twining together as many modes and moods as any human love affair, so that by the time you reach the end you want to go back to where you started. See which doors you missed. — TS Leonard, author of Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival, winner of the 2024-2025 Poetic Justice Institute Prize