Dialogue with the Publisher

Questioner: What exactly do you mean by your slogan?

Marianne: We mean to gather individual voices who are excavating their riches from the past and present, who are forging their individual images that will take us into a new story.

Q: Your headline implies you are a press for publications?

M: We have published a few very small editions.

Q: With a small readership?

M: Very small.

Q: Why So?

M: The market for what we have to say does not yet exist. We are not commercially viable. We predict a wider readership in 25-1500 years.

Q: You are kidding…

M: No, our predictions point to a renaissance in poetry and mythological quest coming out of the ruins. But this will require a great change in the world.

Q: Does this have something to do with your location?

M: Yes. Here is the castle ruin where 250 creative heretics were burned at the stake 750 years ago.

Q: Do you consider Marianne Press heretical?

M. If that means breaking away from convention and pressing into a whole new way of creative imagining, into a new living myth, then, yes. Our location is a metaphor.

Q: A ruin?

M: This is where it begins.