Reissued through December 31
Soil // Kopanie & Other Works From the Mud
By Cass C, Mindape and Cicada. Published by HOUDINI Magazine.
A soil scientist traces how we got from star-stuff to the Dust Bowl and what agribusiness is doing to the ground now. Mindape builds a dictionary out of static and texture. Cicada goes back to rural Poland, to the boars and the family history buried in the dirt. Poems by Whitman, Dickinson and Hopkins run between the pieces.
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This reissue sold through December 31, 2026.
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What's inside
Soil: A Narrative
Cass C
A soil scientist's account in eight chapters and three parts. It starts with how soil forms and moves through guano wars and the Dust Bowl to farm subsidies, nitrogen runoff and the case for regenerative farming.
Dematerial Dictionary
Mindape
An interview with Mindape and eleven full-page textures, each with its own dictionary entry.
Kopanie
Cicada
A story of growing up in rural Poland. It opens with a short list of Old Polish words.
Poems
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Gerard Manley Hopkins
Dickinson opens the book and Hopkins closes it. Whitman's "This Compost" sits in two parts between the pieces.
Glossary
Thirty-four soil and farming terms from Cass C's chapters, from humus to the Haber-Bosch process.
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Soil: A Narrative, chapter 1, page 9
Dematerial Dictionary, page 37
Kopanie, page 57
Glossary, page 67
The details
- 72 pages
- 5 x 8 in paperback with a matte cover
- Printed by Lulu when you order it
- Ships in about two weeks
- $15.99 a copy. Shipping is $5 in the US and $15 everywhere else.
- Up to five copies per order
- On sale through December 31, 2026