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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · May 20
The weirdest poetry book of 2025. We promise.

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neonpajamas.bsky.social Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · May 20
DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY is out in seven days. It’s a beautifully strange & fully illustrated debut poetry collection from Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. We can’t recommend it enough 📚

grab a copy via Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/disi...
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if you're in Chicago, there will be Piżama books available at this holiday market! Did we mention it's inside of a chicken & fish spot? Did we mention there's beer?
Press & Presents Holiday Market: Makers and Small Publishers. 2p-5p at Parsons Chicken and Fish (2952 W. Armitage Ave.)
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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20% discount (physical & digital) ends tomorrow night

get 'em while you can!
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gold or red?

physical (gold) is 20% off today

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digital (red) is 22% off today

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Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's Disintegration Made Plain and Easy (gold cover, physical version) Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's Disintegration Made Plain and Easy (red cover, digital version)
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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two new poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi!

much love to @robmclennan.bsky.social & @periodicities.bsky.social

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Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi : Two poems
thunderstruck   When my wife was struck through by lightning We all wondered aloud  What superpowers will befall the baby And how ...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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MUCH LOVE to @electricliterature.com for including DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY on their list of best poetry collections of 2025! 🎉 We couldn’t be more thrilled

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Electric Lit's Best Poetry Collections of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Taylor Byas, Tiana Clark, and Maria Zoccola are among the year’s most celebrated poetry collections
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December 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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😍😍😍

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December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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MUCH LOVE to @electricliterature.com for including DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY on their list of best poetry collections of 2025! 🎉 We couldn’t be more thrilled

electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
Electric Lit's Best Poetry Collections of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Taylor Byas, Tiana Clark, and Maria Zoccola are among the year’s most celebrated poetry collections
electricliterature.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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gold or red?

physical (gold) is 20% off today

asterismbooks.com/product/disi...

digital (red) is 22% off today

www.neonpajamas.com/pizama-press...
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's Disintegration Made Plain and Easy (gold cover, physical version) Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's Disintegration Made Plain and Easy (red cover, digital version)
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi

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about the author Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi does not perform often. But when he does it is an awful performance. We would like him to get out more or even leave his bedroom. But his bedroom is where pornography is. Especially a naked cowboy riding a green tractor. Pricing is customized to your needs. Under normal circumstances something happens that obligates him to give your money back. Contact for weddings, baptisms, funerals, circumcisions. But please never in that order. His limits may surprise you. As you watch a man die his foreskin turns to rust. The dust convulsing off a moth’s bulb paints the spirit in a thin gold film.
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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DISINTEGRATION DELUXE! Today is the six month anniversary of our first release! To celebrate, we're releasing a digital edition for the very first time

🎨 Feat. 20 additional poems & illustrations (as well as a remixed red cover), this one’s for the superfans who need more Kiik
deluxe version with the red cover about the author Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi’s work has been translated into sixteen languages. Kiik performed the translations though he has never been able to learn a foreign language and is mildly illiterate in English. The translations exist as conjectures of what Kiik’s voice might do if he was a Swedish, a Chinese, etc. As a result the Swedish and Chinese work is very clever. A literary critic once wrote Kiik please stay out of my garden I need those vegetables to make soup. In his pocket the locks of twelve children. Doused and scoured using twelve emulsions. Milky swampy perfumed. In his garden a row of twelve scalped turnips. Pale ghost riders. Paw of snowmelt resting on its heart of mud. on thursday we made love Upon dead camellia blooms Caterpillars fell from the foxglove Stuck spines in us as we rolled through I saw your neighbors in their window above Holding those rosemallows they rescued I burned every sweet thing in the oven Twice yikes I was thinking about you you're still here? really? with the lights out and everything? ok...
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Looks like a great holiday gift. Kiik's a wonderful writer.
neonpajamas.bsky.social Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 8d
since I work in the music industry, when I launched @pizamapress.bsky.social I knew I wanted to release 'deluxe' editions with b-sides & rarities

To celebrate the 6 month anniversary of our first book, it's now available as a digital deluxe download, complete with 20 new poems & illustrations
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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since I work in the music industry, when I launched @pizamapress.bsky.social I knew I wanted to release 'deluxe' editions with b-sides & rarities

To celebrate the 6 month anniversary of our first book, it's now available as a digital deluxe download, complete with 20 new poems & illustrations
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
pizamapress.bsky.social
DISINTEGRATION DELUXE! Today is the six month anniversary of our first release! To celebrate, we're releasing a digital edition for the very first time

🎨 Feat. 20 additional poems & illustrations (as well as a remixed red cover), this one’s for the superfans who need more Kiik
deluxe version with the red cover about the author Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi’s work has been translated into sixteen languages. Kiik performed the translations though he has never been able to learn a foreign language and is mildly illiterate in English. The translations exist as conjectures of what Kiik’s voice might do if he was a Swedish, a Chinese, etc. As a result the Swedish and Chinese work is very clever. A literary critic once wrote Kiik please stay out of my garden I need those vegetables to make soup. In his pocket the locks of twelve children. Doused and scoured using twelve emulsions. Milky swampy perfumed. In his garden a row of twelve scalped turnips. Pale ghost riders. Paw of snowmelt resting on its heart of mud. on thursday we made love Upon dead camellia blooms Caterpillars fell from the foxglove Stuck spines in us as we rolled through I saw your neighbors in their window above Holding those rosemallows they rescued I burned every sweet thing in the oven Twice yikes I was thinking about you you're still here? really? with the lights out and everything? ok...
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Kiik on The Line Break pod! This is not a drill
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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we have a very important file on our computer titled hens dot zip
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"I was absolutely blown away by this book. These poems are vulnerable, funny, irreverent, surprising...these poems are like sitting at the lunch table with the funniest kid in school and realizing how profoundly sad they are."

Much love to @thecorlew.bsky.social for reviewing Kiik's book!
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"I was absolutely blown away by this book. These poems are vulnerable, funny, irreverent, surprising...these poems are like sitting at the lunch table with the funniest kid in school and realizing how profoundly sad they are."

Much love to @thecorlew.bsky.social for reviewing Kiik's book!
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Chicago! Join us next month for a great cause (and a STACKED lineup)
POETS FOR CHICAGO December 11, 7pm at Co-Prosperity (3219 S. Morgan St.) Featuring readings by Erika L. Sánchez, Mark Turcotte, Tara Betts, Daniel Borzutzky, Robyn Schiff, Natasha Mijares, Brenda Cardenas, Stefania Gomez, and Daisy Hernandez A night of art and community benefiting the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Releasing two books through @pizamapress.bsky.social in 2026

One is a surrealist semi-autobiographical ekphrastic fever dream

One is a meditation and reflection on the strange mundanity of life

Both are packed with prose poems
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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an interim message from our founder, editor, art director, and CEO (me)
pizamapress.bsky.social Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 29d
Been quiet over here but hard at work behind the scenes!

- An excited surprise for later this month

- Our 2026 announcement on Jan. 1

- Our AWP Offsite on March 4

- Our next books on May 27
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Been quiet over here but hard at work behind the scenes!

- An excited surprise for later this month

- Our 2026 announcement on Jan. 1

- Our AWP Offsite on March 4

- Our next books on May 27
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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one of our favorite writers, Barton Smock, had some moving things to say about Kiik's debut collection
you have a book for a long time bc you know what to say and then you try to read it again and the weeping reminds you that you never stopped, well, weeping... anyway Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's 'Disintegration Made Plain and Easy' needs no saying from the sayers beyond it should begin being read and not ended
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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four slim books you need to read

📚 The Swallowed Man (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social)

📚 McGlue (@fencebooks.bsky.social)

📚 When All Our Days Are Numbered... (Big Lucks)

📚 Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social)
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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trying to track down the author of a novella that doesn't exist in English (yet)...
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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four novels (under 200 pages) we’re still thinking about

📚 Temporary (Coffee House Press)

📚 Boy with a Black Rooster (The Indigo Press)

📚 Ghosts of East Baltimore (Broken River Books)

📚 Light Boxes (Penguin)
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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four quick reads you need on your shelf

📚 The Hearing Trumpet (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social)

📚 Potted Meat (@tarpaulinsky.bsky.social)

📚 Reinhardt’s Garden (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social)

📚 The Deer (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social)
October 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM