Ascend Ascend: Special Edition

“Janaka Stucky is extraordinary, and his work riveting.” —Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin The signed, hardcover, special edition of ASCEND ASCEND by Janaka Stucky from Third Man Books will have a black-on-black foil debossed cover, with the illustration by Aaron Horkey printed across its inside front cover and end paper. The book will also be wrapped in a black kona cotton band, silkscreened with the book’s seven sigils, which can be removed and applied as a back patch. The patch will be secured in place with an enamel pin, which can then be worn on your favorite bag or jacket for journeying. These special editions will only be available direct from Third Man or at Stucky's live performances. Quantity is limited! Equal parts Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain,” Ascend Ascend makes us both passenger and witness as we participate in the ecstatic destruction of the self through its union with the divine. The long poem was written over the course of twenty days, comi