Hello and welcome to AMIKETO!
AMIKETO is a mutual-aid publishing project that aims to raise money for vulnerable lives and communities through the sale of handsewn booklets of original and translated writing.
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Those interested in purchasing a book can fill out an Inquiry Form. If stock is available, you will receive a Donation and Order form. Donations are to be made directly to specified fundraising campaigns, and I will bear the cost of shipping you your booklet.
Latest Booklet(s)
I Am a Child of Gaza by Olivia Elias
A powerful poem by Palestinian-diaspora poet Olivia Elias. Dedicated to the children of Fukushima, Japan, this moving memorial and gesture of transnational solidarity weaves together recollections of the 2008-9 Gaza Massacre with a heartfelt message of solace for the victims of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
24 pages, 4 x 3.5 inches
*Also available in Esperanto (Mi estas infano de Gaza’)
Previous Booklets (Check Inquiry Form for availability)
By The Labor of Those Who Hope: A short history of Esperanto and the Worker Esperanto Movement
A short history of the international auxiliary language known as Esperanto and its transnational connections to anti-imperial, anti-fascist and worker movements in the early 20th century.
32 pages, 4 x 3.5 inches
O My Little Ones: Selected poems by Dan Tirinaro
A selection of poems by Dan Tirinaro (Jeong Saseop), the first Korean Esperantist to publish an original collection of poetry in Esperanto. Written from the perspective of several caged animals in a Paris zoo, Tirinaro’s fabulistic poetry offers an incisive criticism of capitalism and colonialism that is at times humorous and heartrending.
32 pages, 4 x 3.5 inches
A Tower to Fall From and The Day of World Peace by Vasily Eroshenko
Two short stories by the blind anarchist storyteller Vasily Eroshenko. Written in the mid-1920s, these stories are enlightening fables on the dangers of pride and the nature of “peace” in a war-mongering world.
24 pages, 4 x 3.5 inches
Selected Poems from Shouting in the Fields by Shibuya Teisuke
A selection of political poetry by farmer rights activist Shibuya Teisuke, whose first and only collection of poetry, Shouting in the Fields (Nora ni sakebu), made an enormous impact on Japan’s rural poetry movement in the early 1920s.
32 pages, 4 x 3.5 inches