Special Edition: HAMPI by River Coello

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With bookends of a lunar calling and an earthly reminder, HAMPI chronicles a fantastical journey of recovering one’s buried parts to embrace the blessings of ancestral medicine. Concocted between the United States, Ecuador, and Peru, its photography captures the beauty of these heart homes. Its writing in English, Spanish, and Quechua features lessons from sacred guides, gone ancestors, and other loved ones on the journey to a fuller kind of bravery.

Recognition for HAMPI:

• 2024 Gold Medalist (Specialty Poetry), Independent Publisher Book Awards
• 2024 Silver Medalist (Bilingual Poetry), International Latino Book Awards
• 2024 Silver Medalist (Spanish Language), Florida Book Awards
• 2025 Silver Medalist (Poetry: Hybrid Works), Nautilus Book Awards

ISBN: 978-1-950615-08-7

This Special Edition is made in collaboration with LMRM, who created the weaving that we converted to bookcloth for the cover, as well as headbands, and a bookmark ribbon. In an edition of 15, each book has a uniquely woven cover and is encased in a foil stamped clamshell box. 

LMRM (pronounced “loom room”) is a project space fostering opportunities for art-making, research, and community programming around digital weaving. Based in Chicago, LMRM is currently one of few places in the world offering public access to a TC2 digital jacquard loom and the only one in the U.S. with an open studio model: no residency application, and no university enrollment. Through rental equipment, workshops, events, and collaborations, LMRM strives to emphasize weaving as a contemporary art practice.