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Quemar is an independent paperback and online press, founded in 2016.
Art, Audacity, the Ages.

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With our latest paperback, Mandatory Sentence, Quemar Press is proud to have 22 paperbacks. We thank our readers for their warmth and enthusiasm

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Author audio 'Ginsberg Woke Hyper in 2026' from Jennifer Maiden's When the Trade Winds Weaken (2027). Poem sees Allen Ginsberg wake at church where in reality friends held centenary not 1st venue where stance for war wouldn't suit him.Adapts Howl structure
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Preview 13 our translation 1st professional female Spanish author, 16c Beatriz Bernal's Cristalian of Spain: novice knight braves enchanted cave & his adventure becomes vivid hallucination. Water, a boat, boatman carrying him to a nightmare world & vanish
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Readers remark that renewed attempts by Australian & other govts to increase control of social media & freedom of speech make Jennifer Maiden's latest collection, 'Mandatory Sentence', with several poems on that topic, even more important to them. Sampler:
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Preview poem Ginsberg Woke Hyper in 2026 from Jennifer Maiden's When the Trade Winds Weaken (2027): Allen Ginsberg wakes at St.Mark's Church where in reality his friends relocated his centenary: not original venue as that pro-war. Poem pays tribute to Howl
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Preview 12 our new translation, vivid Cristalian of Spain by 1st Spanish woman author, 16c Beatriz Bernal: young knight Lindedel, lady Flenisa find Watch Castle with no doors, windows. Entrance is grim dark cave. He starts to enter it. She discourages him.
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Warm wishes for solstice. Pic is solstice moon by our publisher - our website banner. Hwang Jini's solstice poem is in our free download book of medieval Asian women writers, Shining Moon. Solstice is in Jennifer Maiden's novel, The Malachite & the Diamonds, several of her poems.

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Author audio: title poem from Jennifer Maiden's When the Trade Winds Weaken (Quemar 2027): starts with Trade Winds too weak to move warm west Pacific air to Equator, hence dangerous El Nino. Poem builds to include empire warfare, trade sanctions & memories
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Preview 11 engrossing Cristalian of Spain by Spain's 1st professional female author, 16c Beatriz Bernal: freed knights leave. Barsina now rules her own kingdom & Flenisa chooses to join Lindedel's quest. They reach Watch Castle, which seems tall as clouds:
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Thanks to readers for comments that, as censorship & censure -such as that by Aust Press Council of SMH cartoonist - grow, Jennifer Maiden's poems against such censorship are more & more apt. 'The Chilling Effect' is one. In Sampler for WW III: New Poems
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Happy to announce Jennifer Maiden's 'When the Trade Winds Weaken' (Quemar 2027) & present preview. Title poem starts as weak Trade Winds cause dangerous El Nino, builds to include empire war, trade sanctions, memories. Preview at bottom of Forthcoming page
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Preview 39 our new translation Paris Communard Louise Michel's 19c memoir of her exile in New Caledonia, Kanak Legends & Epics: she describes prophetic effect of niaouli, her dreams of new Pacific continent made by coral, & inventions to aid human future:
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For those enjoying our new translation Beatriz Bernal's 16c Cristalian of Spain focusing on powerful women in chivalric literature: cover pic from our paperback All She Resolves to Rescue, translating work with same focus, Marie de France's 12c Lanval: female hero rescues knight

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Author audio Jennifer Maiden's elegant eloquent poem White Bottlebrush (inspired by illustrating Michel's Kanak wiseman using Niaouli to see war) evokes plant's Australian form, food of flying things,Niaouli as survival, contrasts 'howling hunger' in world
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Preview 10 of 1st professional Spanish female author Beatriz Bernal's engrossing 16c novel Cristalian of Spain: beautiful Flenisa comforts Barsina. All go to her father's castle & free 3 knights, who Flenisa greets, preparatory to her quest to Watch Tower
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Support for Cuba by Mexico's first female President draws readers' attention again to Mexico's long feminist influences, including 17c Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Our new translation of her splendid complex farce Pursuits in a House is still a free download
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Jennifer Maiden's new poem White Bottlebrush is inspired by illustrating Quemar's Louise Michel re Kanak wiseman influenced by Niaouli correctly seeing war. Maiden's elegant eloquent lyric evokes Niaouli bottlebrush's nourishing of flying things, survival:
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Preview 38 of Quemar Press' new translation of 19c exiled Paris communard Louise Michel's 'Kanak Legends & Epics' recounts a legend of the Kanak wiseman sleeping intoxicated on an infusion of Niaouli flowers, to predict war, strategy, weather & events:
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With broadening general workers' strikes in Bolivia, we thank readers who said 'Meeting Each Other Alive', translating letters between Bolivar & his beloved fellow revolutionary Manuela Saenz, reflects continuing Bolivarian spirit. Book purchase & sampler:
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Author audio 'The sword that sleeps between us', new Jennifer Maiden poem. Starts with present, future & past as sharp temporal edge, dual knowledge of author & reader, uncertainty re Iran war. Expands to personal memory, equator
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Preview 9 our new translation 16c Spanish novelist Beatriz Bernal's 'Cristalian of Spain': giant arranges a joust between himself & Lindedel, who accidentally causes giant's death but declines kingdom, giving it to giant's daughter.Continues feminist theme
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