2024
anthology
96 p.
62 x 98 mm
paperback

dorée 70 g
MVB Gryphius

Offset White 80 g/m² 
Overused Grotesk     

Al-Majnoun Books An anthology bringing together texts by Nick Cave and Federico García Lorca. “The Secret Life of the Love Song” was written by Cave for Vienna Poetry Festival 1998, “The Flesh Made Word” as a radio broadcast of the BBC Radio 3 Religious Services in 1996. “Theory and Play of the Duende” was written by Lorca as a lecture in Buenos Aires in 1933. Furthermore, the book features the lyrics to “The Boatman’s Call” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mute Records 1997. The brings together meditations on love, longing, laments, religion, and the mysteries of the creative process, bridging the gap between six decades of writing.