Including 216 words that Chang Yuchen have translated with fragments of coral bodies, this is a tool book custom-designed for one person’s need in her ongoing endeavor of making a language. Published by Gong Press in two versions, paperback (open edition) and accordion (signed and numbered edition of 30), both include an introduction by Alvin Li, in which he wrote: “Coral Dictionary is a poetic investigation into the nature of language and the language of nature.”
paperback, folded jacket, open edition, 6.5 x 13 x 3 cm
first printing 2022, second printing 2024
