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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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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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Four Lorca SuitesFederico García Lorca Suites is one of the most charming and melodious of all of García Lorca's poem series. Written early in his career, most of these poems remained unpublished during his lifetime and were later reassembled from notebooks. 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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The Cold of PoetryLyn Hejinian Though comprised of 10 longish poems written over the last 20 years, this book is very much a whole, one that reflects Lyn Hejinian's characteristic interest in the consistency and inconsistency of memory and self, and the role that writing plays in preserving and transforming these. SEE MORE
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Stories Out of OmarieWendy Walker Wendy Walker retells eight of The Lais of Marie de France, a proto-feminist poem cycle written in England in the 12th century. Her style is as refined as Arthurian romance, yet as iconoclastic as Marie’s knights, whose adventures mainly serve to help ladies find lovers.
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One Thousand and One-Second Stories Inagaki Taruho "Taruho is one of the few I can call a genius in Japanese literature.... He has a spot equivalent to the astronauts in history. There is Before Taruho & After Taruho."
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The Nude FormalismCharles Bernstein The Nude Formalism was originally published by Sun & Moon Press in 1989. It combines the poetry of Charles Bernstein with the drawings of Susan Bee. SEE MORE
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The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1992Adriano Spatola Adriano Spatola (1941–1988) was one of the most important poets of the Italian neo-avant-garde. 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 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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1001 Great Stories: Volume 1 — Anthology — This entertaining and educational series will help English-language readers discover international writing and recognize their own writers within that context. 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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The Exterminating AngelLuis Buñuel The screenplay of The Exterminating Angel (1962), one of Luis Buñuel's most humorous and visually dazzling films, is a linguistically brilliant satire of social aspirations. SEE MORE
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To Do: A Book of Alphabets and BirthdaysGertrude Stein To Do is an alphabet book, meant originally for children, in which Stein planned an orderly progression through the alphabet with four names for each letter. SEE MORE
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