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Beth Steidle - When the body betrays it forces you to learn its language,...
Beth Steidle, The Static Herd, Calamari Press, 2014.www.bethsteidle.com/writing«When the body betrays it forces you to learn its language, turning patients and kin into spontaneous islands of urgent...
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Marianne Fritz - there is a class of artists whose work is so strange and...
The Gravity of CircumstancesOf all the crooked arrows in the critic's quiver, the one labeled "genius" seems to fly most erratically. Rather than a substantive gesture of praise, in its normal...
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Josep Pla seems to enjoy an almost constant series of presence effects in...
Josep Pla, The Gray Notebook, NYRB Classics, 2014.excerptJosep Pla’s masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, when Pla was in...
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Teju Cole - Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named...
Teju Cole, Open City,Random House, 2012.www.tejucole.com/books/A haunting novel about identity, dislocation, and history, Teju Cole’s Open City is a profound work by an important new author who has...
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Evan Retzer - It’s as if William Burrough’s heirs are combing their way...
Evan Retzer, Daydream Society. Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014."It’s as if William Burrough’s heirs are combing their way through the jungles of New Orleans and post-modern life here, in the second...
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Scott McFarland - Occupy Wall Street says / yes to spectacle./ Yes to...
Scott McFarland, O Human Microphone. 1913 Press, 2014.Scott McFarland's O HUMAN MICROPHONE was selected by Rae Armantrout as winner of the 1913 Prize for 1st Books! Scott McFarland's book O Human...
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Lucas de Lima - These poems lurch from the murky waters of our collective...
Lucas de Lima, Wet Land, Action Books, 2014.www.montevidayo.com/author/lucas/"Lucas de Lima's stunning book affected me so profoundly at all the stages of reading it, encountering it—before it was a...
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Johann Peter Hebel - These stories were originally published in a popular...
Johann Peter Hebel, The Treasure Chest, Introduced and translated by John Hibberd. Penguin Classics, 1995.(Schatzkastlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes, 1811) by Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826) These...
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Juliet Escoria - Brutal, honest, dark, and incredibly real: Reality leaves...
Juliet Escoria, Black Cloud, Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014."Juliet Escoria has a poet's knack for knowing when to tie off a paragraph for thunderous effect and displays enormous empathy for the...
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Megan Milks invokes and employs the genre conventions of fan fiction on, for...
Megan Milks, Kill Marguerite and Other Stories. Emergency Press, March 2014.Kill Marguerite and Other Stories collects thirteen risk-taking stories obsessed with crossing boundaries, whether formal or...
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Myfanwy Collins - Is there hope within even the darkest hearts? A woman has...
Myfanwy Collins, I Am Holding Your Hand, PANK Books, 2013.myfanwycollins.com/ Is there hope within even the darkest hearts? A woman has sex with her dead mother’s husband. A child sleeps in a...
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Nanni Balestrini - You cannot read this novel, unless I lend it to you, as...
Nanni Balestrini, Tristano: A Novel, Trans. by Mike Harakis, Verso Books, 2014.This book is unique as no other novel can claim to be: one of 109,027,350,432,000 possible variations of the same work of...
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Gustavo Faverón Patriau - Part murder mystery, part exploration of the...
Gustavo Faverón Patriau, The Antiquarian, Trans. by Joseph Mulligan. Black Cat/Grove Press, 2014.Three years have passed since Gustavo, a renowned psycholinguist, last spoke to his closest friend,...
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Michael Sayeau - The finest books are those which have the least subject...
Michael Sayeau, Against the Event: The Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative.Oxford University Press, 2013.michaelsayeau.com/Offers close reading and explication of key modernist...
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Pitigrilli -Seriously wicked. It deals playfully and brutally with...
Pitigrilli, Cocaine, Trans. by Eric Mosbacher, New Vessel, 2013. [1921.]Paris in the 1920s – dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune with his wits … unless he is led into temptation....
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Robert Vaughan - A fast-moving fusion of microfiction and free verse that...
Robert Vaughan, Addicts & Basements. Civil Coping Mechanism, 2014.www.robert-vaughan.com/“We are vulnerable, seeking a far off space where we can find comfort in the tiny little creatures feasting...
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Nikki Darling - an electronic collage that dances and sings. It lectures and...
Nikki Darling, Ascension. Digital poetry chapbook. Light & Wire GalleryAscensionPUSSY! A PROGRESSION!Alien vs. Predatorndarling.com/The ebook Ascension by Nikki Darling is beyond auto-biographical....
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Arno Camenisch - The four main (unnamed) characters are a dairyman, his...
Arno Camenisch, The Alp. Trans. by Donal McLaughlin. Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.The first novel in Arno Camenisch’s celebrated “alpine” trilogy unfolds over a single summer. The four main (unnamed)...
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Rosemary Tonks (1928 – 2014) - "I have been young too long, and in a...
vanishedpoets.blogspot.com/www.poemhunter.com/rosemary-tonks/Rosemary Tonks obituaryPoet and novelist who turned her back on the literary world for four decadesNeil AstleyRosemary Tonks in the 1960s,...
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Patrick Wensink - Our hero is a sliver of gristle and a mushroom cloud of...
Patrick Wensink, Broken Piano for President, Lazy Fascist Press, 2012.sample patrickwensink.com/Friends of Deshler Dean, the antihero of Wensink's psychedelic trip of a...
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