This week brings the release of the latest title from Preacher’s Biscuit Books – the independent press that is the brainchild of my friends Kris Merola and Tate Shaw:

SprawlCode: descriptions by Chris Burnett
Hardcover, 402 pp, 5.75 x 5, $35

Chris Burnett has been wrestling with language in relation to places since the early 1990′s. Over time, he developed a software that enabled him to make pictures of places out of bodies of texts. For Burnett, these word-pictures “form a patter, a linguistic snapshot of sprawl … an unruly growth principle, interlinking the edges of city and highway, story and image, computer code and text.”

SprawlCode:descriptions is his most comprehensive statement to date. It is an enigmatic manual that brings together over 350 descriptions of sprawl in 14 separate chapters with an illuminating preface and image index.

Each and every one of the books bearing the Preacher’s Biscuit imprint thus far has been a thoroughly engaging and beautiful work of craft and concept. Chris Burnett’s SprawlCode: descriptions is no different – within a masterfully executed package, we find a mental maze of and about travel, maps, text, place, and images. For more info, visit www.preachersbiscuitbooks.com.