Birthday Boy by Marco Antonini & Michael Günzburger

Poems by Marco Antonini
Drawings by Michael Günzburger

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47 years ago…

In Birthday Boy, the Italian poet and artist Marco Antonini constructs a cup-and-string phone between vulnerable adulthood and lingering childhood memories of

eucalyptus, avocado (“which was edible: / the pit or the pulp?”), popcorn (ceiling), the boxes of mysterious moves, argent dust, and a loop of buckets of sudsy water sloshed into the gutter. And the time when

47 years ago / We buried a bottle full of leaves and flowers / Our witches’ brew / Beneath the modest garden

Each of the cycle’s poems is paired with an ink drawing by artist Michael Günzburger, snagging disintegrating landmarks in place and time.

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2025
Edition of 500
28 pages, 14×20 cm, b&w offset, stapled
Printed on Arctic Munken Print Cream 115
Designed by Pilar Rojo
ISBN 978-83-68165-10-4