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Cityscapes - reflections on the urban environments that we all know and how...
Cityscapes, Jacob Steinberg, ed.Read/download it herealtlitcityscapes.tumblr.com/ Jacob Steinberg is putting out this anthology called "Cityscapes" and I was given the chance to review it ahead...
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Blake Butler, Vanessa Place & Christopher Higgs - two writers have produced...
Blake Butler, Vanessa Place & Christopher Higgs, One, Roof Books, 2012. 'From the room inside the room, from the house inside the house, memories of a one-legged father and various acts of...
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Daniela Cascella - An archival fiction of listening, where landscape is...
Daniela Cascella, En Abime: Listening, Reading, Writin. An archival fiction, Zero Books, 2012.Daniela Cascella's blogEn Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven...
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Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetic & Avant-post: The Avant-Garde under "Post-"...
Louis Armand, ed., Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetic, Litteraria Pagensia Books, 2010.Read it at issuThis volume brings together writings on Edwin Denby, Mark Hyatt, Bern Porter, Asa Benveniste, Lukas...
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Grzegorz Wróblewski - It is Kafkaesque and yet tender poems, cynical and yet...
Grzegorz Wróblewski, A Marzipan Factory, Trans. by Adam Zdrodowski, Otoliths, 2010.A Marzipan Factory is the most original and enticing book of poems I have read in years. It is Kafkaesque and yet...
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Aaron Apps suggests communication as beastly, 'extra-somatic,' 'liquid...
Aaron Apps, Compos(T) Mentis, BlazeVOX, 2012.Excerpt blog "Knuckles digging in the knee and not knowing it, while reading! To be disturbed and to be reminded of something you never quite knew. To be...
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Thomas Nagel - the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is...
Thomas Nagel,Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. Oxford University Press. 2012.read it at Google BooksThe modern materialist approach to...
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Eric Raymond - a hilarious, heartbreaking, painfully smart satire that guides...
Eric Raymond, Confessions from a Dark Wood, Sator Press, 2012.blog.ericraymond.com/www.tumblr.com/tagged/eric-raymondKen here. I don't often laugh, cry, and spit food on my computer screen...
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Hilda Hilst - If Lispector's psychotic heroines careen towards Mars, Hilst's...
Hilda Hilst, The Obscene Madame D, Trans by Nathanaël and Rachel Gontijo Araujo, Nightboat Books, 2012.THE OBSCENE MADAME D is the first work by acclaimed Brazilian author Hilda Hilst to be published...
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Xi Chuan intertwines the mountains and roads of Xinjiang with insects and...
Xi Chuan, Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems, Trans. by Lucas Klein, New Directions, 2012. “In the crevices of history, mosquitoes are everywhere,” Xi Chuan writes. Notes on the Mosquito introduces...
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Mikhail Shishkin - a shining example in their classrooms that great Russian...
Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, Trans. by Marian Schwart, Open Letter Books, 2012.Day after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter—the Swiss officers who guard the gates...
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Suzanne Scanlon - A series of fragmentary tales about Lizzie on a journey...
Suzanne Scanlon, Promising Young Women, Dorothy, a publishing project, 2012.A series of fragmentary tales tells the story of Lizzie, a young woman who, in her early twenties, unexpectedly embarks on a...
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Amber Sparks - families reconstruct themselves, mothers fashion babies from...
Amber Sparks,May We Shed These Human Bodies, Curbside Publishing, 2012.ambernoellesparks.com/May We Shed These Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and skies with the world's most powerful telescope...
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The Rejection Group is actually thinking of poets and poetry as worthy of...
WHO The Rejection Group. It was an anonymous group for a while. Then Kent Johnson outed himself. Then he was (maybe) kicked out of the group. And now they’re back. The Rejection Group appears to...
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi - a mind churns on itself, while reality, if it...
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Fra Keeler, Dorothy, a publishing project, 2012.A man purchases a house, the house of Fra Keeler, moves in, and begins investigating the circumstances of the latter’s...
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Lidija Dimkovska careens from pop culture to refugee laments in poems that...
Lidija Dimkovska, pH Neutral History, Trans. by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid, Copper Canyon Press, 2012."Dimkovska pins readers to the wall with rapid-fire linguistic energy."—Publishers...
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Bernard Comment brings a fairy-tale premise into the modern world, where...
Bernard Comment, The Shadow of Memory, Trans. by Betsy Wing, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.The debut novel of Bernard Comment, acclaimed author and editor, now available in English for the first time, The...
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Peter Tieryas Liu - a travelogue of and requiem for the American dream in all...
Peter Tieryas Liu, Watering Heaven, Signal 8 Press, 2012.tieryas.wordpress.com/www.tieryasxu.com/What would you do if you found out your girlfriend laid an egg every time she had sex? Who would you be...
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Modern and Contemporary Swiss Poetry: An Anthology - Urs Allemann, Arno...
Modern and Contemporary Swiss Poetry: An Anthology, Ed. by Luzius Keller, Dalkey Achive Press, 2012.Featuring the work of some of the greatest poets of the twentieth century as well as their...
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Takashi Hiraide - A mix of narrative, autobiography, minute scientific...
Takashi Hiraide,For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut, Trans. by Sawako Nakayasu. New Directions, 2008.Read it at GoogleBooks Excerpt The radiant subway. The wall that clears up, endless. A thundering...
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