Windy but Nice is a special, limited edition 8-page newspaper featuring poems by Tomaž Šalamun with illustrations by Dash Shaw. The 11 poems included have been selected from all our full-length Šalamun collections published to-date, with work from translators Sonja Kravanja, Matthew Moore, Michael Thomas Taren, and Jeffrey Young & Katrina Vladimirov Young. We are offering just 100 copies to the public for essentially the cost of shipping—or get it for only $1 when you add it to another order of $30 or more.

Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun (1941-2014) is hailed as one of the most prominent poets of his generation, renowned for his impact on the Eastern European avant-garde movement. He authored over forty collections of poetry in Slovenian and English, and this collection exemplifies the best of what he is known for in its experiments with surrealism, polyphony, and absurdism. It’s the world we know made completely anew, where “City buses / resemble / quiet polite / people.” Šalamun’s unique voice will linger on for years to come in the influence it has left with artists, writers, and readers.

Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator. His latest feature, Cryptozoo, which he wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance 2021 and won the Innovator Award. His debut as writer-director was the animated feature My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, which screened at the 2016 New York Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, and had a 2017 theatrical release from GKids, the U.S. distributor of the Studio Ghibli films. Shaw is also the cartoonist of several graphic novels, including New School, Doctors, Bottomless Belly Button, Clue: Candlestick, and most recently, Discipline (out on New York Review Comics). The San Francisco Film Society recently awarded him the 2021 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award.