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Contradicta: Aphorisms (back in print)

Inspired by the notion of the dialectic in the work of philosophers such as Hegel and Bachelard, Nick Piombino created his idea of paired aphorisms he calls Contradicta, recasting the classic form of the great aphorists such as La Rochefoucauld, Blake, and Emerson in a contemporary context. The book is illustrated by Toni Simon.

 

Plain Song and Angel Heurtebise
A French/English Bilingual Edition

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was one of the most influential artists of the French Surrealist avant-garde, best known for films like The Blood of a Poet (1930), Beauty and the Beast (1946), and Orpheus (1950). In his 30s, he wrote two long poems, Plain Song and Angel Heurtebise, about his love for Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923), a novelist and poet who died at age 20.

 

Lucebert: The Collected Poems, Volume 3
A Dutch/English Bilingual Edition

Lucebert (1924-1994) was affiliated with the art movements Cobra (or CoBrA: from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam) and the Fiftiers (de Vijftigers). He won numerous national and Amsterdam-based prizes, and, to this day, he remains an important voice within the Dutch literary canon. Lucebert: The Collected Poems, Volume 3 (of four planned by translator Diane Butterman) covers the years 1965-1982.

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Last Living Words:
The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader (back in print)

Born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1926, Ingeborg Bachmann studied law and philosophy at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna, writing her dissertation on Martin Heidegger. Brilliantly translated from the German by Lilian M. Friedberg, Last Living Words (winner of the Kayden Translation Award) presents a new perspective on this internationally renowned author of poetry, fiction, and radio plays. Green Integer previously published an early work, Letters to Felician.

 

Hell Has No Limits (back in print)

With its stark atmosphere, powerful characterizations, and dazzling alterations of perspective in time and gender, José Donoso's early masterwork, Hell Has No Limits, anticipates the qualities of better-known works by this Chilean magic-realist. He called it his best work: "the most perfect, with fewest errors, the most complete." Author of A House in the Country, The Obscene Bird of Night, Coronation, This Sunday, and Curfew, Donoso is one of the great Latin American "boom" novelists. He was awarded the international prize of the America Award in 1996, shortly before his death.

 

Ten Thousand Lives: Maninbo, Volumes 21-25

Born in 1933 in a small rural village in Korea’s North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist monk in 1952, and began writing in the late 1950s. Ten Thousand Lives is his major, ongoing work, which began in prison with a determination to describe every person he had ever met or heard of. It tells the stories of many figures from Korean history, as well as children and poor people, who, without his poems, would have vanished into oblivion. Green Integer previously published Volumes 1–10.

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My Year 2013: Murderers and Angels

The mass shootings that led up to 2013 and continued throughout the year determined that Douglas Messerli’s 14th volume of his My Year series would be focused on the individuals behind the weapons that had killed so very many innocent children and adults. But at the same time, it became clear to this historian of societal and personal cultural events residing in the city of Angels that there were also angels in our midst who created a dichotomy in life. As Cary Grant’s angelic messenger in the film The Bishop’s Wife observed, the face you see while strolling any city or village street “may be the face of a murderer or the face of an angel.” And in most cases there was no way to easily tell the difference.

 

Grammatical Dreams

Grammatical Dreams presents a series of luxuriant, twinkling, dream-like tales that might almost remind one of Scheherazade’s One Thousand and One Nights. Murray Pomerance is a Canadian writer of several fictions and books on film.

 

Biography of Julie von Bartmann

Written in France in 1923–24 and never previously published, Djuna Barnes’ play, Biography of Julie von Bartmann, is related to several of her early stories—particularly “A Night Among the Horses”—and to her 1928 fiction Ryder. Like the father, Wendell, of her fiction, the father of this early play, Basil Born, refuses to let his children attend public school, and challenges the school authorities, opposing their teaching methodologies: he wins. And like the early short story, one of Barnes’ best, a strong and sophisticated woman verbally destroys her “bestial” horse groom.

 

RARE | Sun & Moon books | RARE

Green Integer still has some of its older Sun & Moon books, many of them in hardcover!

The Road to the World's End Sigurd Hoel	Smoke: and Other Early Stories Djuna Barnes	Metaphysics in the Midwest Curtis White	Thunder on the Left Christopher Morley	The Sea-Rabbit: Or, the Artist of Life Wendy Walker
Metropolis 1-15 Robert Fitterman	London Fiona Templeton	Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra Mary Butts	The Owl and The Goose on the Grave John Hawkes	The Captain of the Butterflies Cees Nooteboom
Bogeywoman Jaimy Gordon	Terror of Earth Tom La Farge	Switchback Murray Mednick	Finite Intuition Milo De Angelis	Dread Robert Steiner
Hotel Death and Other Tales John Perreault	Music from the Evening of the World Michael Brownstein	New Jerusalem Len Jenkin

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