Compound Press director Chris Holdaway writes about the process and considerations of posthumously publishing the work of Schaeffer Lemalu (1983-2021).
In February 2022, Schaeffer’s partner Abbey arrived at my home with a jammed filing box containing, in order, every poem he had sent to her over the long years of their relationship. Immense emotional weight aside, we were faced with a number of practical problems deciding how to arrive at a published legacy for the author and the work.