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New and Selected PoemsCharles North Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Schuyler wrote of Charles North's poetry: "His joy in words, and the things words adumbrate, is infectious: we catch a contagion of enlightenment. To me, he is the most stimulating poet of his generation." SEE MORE
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The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry: 1993-1994 — Anthology — After an entire century of radical and exciting poetic works by major American poets, many Americans are still presented in secondary schools, universities, and the media with tired and worn little narrative sequences as best representing poetry. Innovation is a dirty word. In order to challenge these conventions and to present the excitement of contemporary poetry, this annual anthology presents the best innovative new writing published in magazines, journals and books in the United States and Canada each year. SEE MORE
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Country CousinsMichael Brownstein "Country Cousins is a work of genius. This is the most exciting novel I've read since Mailer and Burroughs."
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with each clouded peakFriederike Mayröcker In 1973, Mayröcker published with each clouded peak (je ein umwölkter gipfel), which she wrote by mixing memories and feelings with texts collected from various sources. The result is a magnificent collage, subject to the permutations, repetitions, and rediscoveries of everyday life. It is at once autobiography, essay, fiction, and poetry. SEE MORE
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Still in Love (CD)Kier Peters [Douglas Messerli]Based on the play "Past Present and Future Tense," this chamber music drama follows a couple through their checkered erotic lives three times: first as a narrated flashback, then in a curiously realistic present, and finally in a surreal and cataclysmic dream of the future. SEE MORE
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The Theater of the EarsValère Novarina Valère Novarina’s essays are a manifesto for a new theater. A major international playwright, he was also a director, stage designer, painter, and performance artist. Translator Allen S. Weiss, in his Introduction, brilliantly traces the roots of Novarina’s call for “articulatory
cruelty, linguistic carnage” to Antonin Artaud. SEE MORE
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My Queer Cinema: LGBTQ+ Films Coded and Explicit, Volume 1, 1887–1919Douglas Messerli This first volume of essays on 180 silent films reveals just how various and multiple queer imagery was even in the early decades of filmmaking. It begins with an examination of the first on-screen kiss, which was between two nude women in 1887. SEE MORE
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Incessant FuneralVisar Zhiti Incessant Funeral portrays a vast crowd carrying the weight of a dead past on their shoulders like a coffin, never stopping at any cemetery. It universalizes the metaphor of totalitarianism, where people cannot free themselves from myth, absurdity, and grotesque reality. The centered lines of this fiction resemble the shape of a funeral procession. SEE MORE
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Children of ClayRaymond Queneau Although they are known above all for brilliant wordplay, stylistic innovation, and the incorporation of spoken French and phonetic spelling into works of literature, Queneau’s novels are also rich in historical and philosophical allusions while presenting a lively picture of French society in the first half of the 20th-century. SEE MORE
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Lucebert: The Collected Poems, Volume 4 Lucebert [Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk]The experimental and enigmatic quality of his verse made him a sensation in the early 1950s. He was instantly embraced by the avant-garde movements CoBrA and The Fiftiers, but eyed with suspicion by the Dutch establishment. Today, he is acknowledged as an important voice within the literary canon, and his prolific legacy extends to thousands of paintings and drawings. SEE MORE
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Give Em Enough RopeBruce Andrews One of the most controversial writers of our time, Bruce Andrews has positioned himself at the most radical end of contemporary American poetry. Like the Russian Futurists in the first decades of this century, Andrews argues against “the Tradition” as it has been reified by Modern poets and contemporary realists, and in its place he has posited new directions for poetry. SEE MORE
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Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe Tan Lin In these highly original poems, the young American Chinese poet, Tan Lin, "sets tooth on the treetops" as language twists and tumbles over itself like a "Chickory Lickery Bock." In this marvelous celebration of language, Tan Lin explores "a meditation backwards," inventing new poetic structures and forms as he creates a dialogue between himself and the significant other Reader. SEE MORE
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The Memoirs of the Late Mr. Ashley: An American ComedyMarianne Hauser “Marianne Hauser’s The Memoir of the Late Mr. Ashley is a work of genius—witty, sad, in the American grain.”
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The LiarMartin A. Hansen Born in 1909, Hansen was brought up in a rural community south of Copenhagen. His early novels are closely observed studies of farming life, but with the rise of World War II and his participation in the Resistance movement, he began to write works that more clearly represented the dystopian world of his time. He is generally regarded as one of the major Danish authors of the twentieth century. SEE MORE
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Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure, is one of the great masterworks of the fin de siècle, a work that capped Hardy's exploration of Wessex working class figures. SEE MORE
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The Owl and The Goose on the GraveJohn Hawkes The Owl and The Goose on the Grave, first printed in 1954, were intended as companion pieces to The Cannibal (1949), Hawkes's first novel and classic vision of a neo-Nazi uprising in an imaginary Germany. SEE MORE
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The Surface of MotionRebecca Goodman Calling on other art forms, present and past—the music of 20th-century composer Olivier Messiaen, the paintings of Ambrogio Bergognone—Rebecca Goodman’s first novel, The Surface of Motion, explores art and time, time and memory, and the relationship of art to the lives of those who create and live it. SEE MORE
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TristiaOsip Mandelshtam Tristia (1922), Osip Mandelshtam's second book, helped to establish his reputation as one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century SEE MORE
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The Chieko Poems Takamura Kōtarō Takamura Kōtarō (1883–1956) traveled to New York, London, and Paris to study sculpture in the early 1900s. Upon his return, he wrote Dōtei (Journey) (1914), the first book by a Japanese poet to use Western free verse. The book also begins his famous series of poems about his wife, Naganuma Chieko (1886–1938). SEE MORE
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The Belly of ParisÉmile Zola The intricate, beautifully detailed story of the markets of Les Halles—a story of wealth and poverty set against a sumptuous banquet of food and commerce—makes The Belly of Paris highly engaging reading. SEE MORE
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Two Fields That Face and Mirror Each OtherMartin Nakell Two Fields is written in several different modes, utilizing in one book the history of fiction from traditional narrative to disjunctive narrative to poetic narrative to poem itself, the novel’s origin. SEE MORE
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ShadowtimeCharles Bernstein Shadowtime is a thought opera based on the work and life of the German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940). The libretto was written by Charles Bernstein for composer Brian Ferneyhough and had its premiere in May 2004 at the Munich Biennale. SEE MORE
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The Condemned Apple: Selected PoetryVisar Zhiti Visar Zhiti was imprisoned from 1979 to 1987, one of many scapegoats selected as a means of terrifying intellectuals under Enver Hoxha’s Communist dictatorship. Allowed neither pencil nor paper, he continued to write his poems in his head. His fellow prisoners helped him memorize the poems, in part to keep their sanity and to brighten up the terrible lives they were forced to bear. Only when Hoxha fell from power, and the political prisoners were freed, was Zhiti’s poetry brought to print. SEE MORE
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White Magic and Other PoemsKrzysztof Kamil Baczyński The poet’s mother preserved his manuscripts, and in 1961 they were published for the first time, expanding the legend of Baczyński, who is now recognized as the greatest Polish poet of his generation. SEE MORE
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Temporary Worker Rides a SubwayMark Wallace In two long poems of comic outrage, Mark Wallace explores and questions contemporary language surrounding money, work, and the degree to which these provide reasonable measures of the value of people’s lives. SEE MORE
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Romanian PoemsPaul Celan Romanian poet Paul Celan (1920–1970) is celebrated for his late works in German: Breathturn (1967), Threadsuns (1968), and Lightduress (1970). Less known are his writings in Romanian, written before his arrival in Vienna in 1947. The famously melancholic poet characterizes these early years as being touched with euphoria. SEE MORE
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