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Volker Braun presents a world of tension and uncertainty and his spare prose...
Volker Braun, Rubble Flora, Translated by David Constantine and Karen Leeder, Seagull Books, 2014. Rubble Flora is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long...
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Chus Pato topples all lyric convention, and in a rush of grammatical and...
Chus Pato, Secession/Insecession. Trans. by Erín Moure, BookThug, 2014. sampleSECESSION/INSECESSION is an homage to the acts of reading, writing and translating poetry. In it, Chus Pato's Galician...
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Marek Bieńczyk - These lovely pages, in which the essay brushes up against...
Marek Bieńczyk, Transparency, Trans. by Benjamin Paloff,Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.Milan Kundera on Marek Bienczyk's Transparency: "The subject of transparency has always interested me; in The Art of...
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Félicia Atkinson - As a statement disguised in a poetic novel, everybody is a...
Félicia Atkinson,Improvising sculpture as delayed fictions, Shelter Press, 2014.Improvising sculpture as delayed fictions is the first monograph dedicated to the work of the French artist and musician...
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Michael McGriff & J.M. Tyree have assembled a list of 39 obscure art-house...
Michael McGriff & J.M. Tyree, Our Secret Life in the Movies, A Strange Object, 2014.excerpt"A beautiful aftershock of the movies." -David Gordon GreenEVERYONE HAS A SECRET LIFE IN THE MOVIES...As...
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Henning Koch - The maggots eat your organs, they take over the functions…,...
Henning Koch, The Maggot People, Dzanc Books, 2014.henningkoch.comA young man meets a woman and falls in love with her, despite her protestations that he will soon turn into "a maggot person"—a...
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Michel Laub - Beautiful language illuminates the deep philosophical questions...
Michel Laub, Diary of the Fall, Trans. by Margaret Jull Costa, Other Press, 2014.excerpt‘I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty...
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Henri Lefebvre - an incantatory text, a catalog of what has been lost over...
Henri Lefebvre, The Missing Pieces, Trans. by David L. Sweet, Semiotext(e), 2014.excerpt A boarder for two years following a national funeral, Mirabeau is removed from the Pantheon and transferred to...
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Salvador Novo describes coming of age during the violence of the Mexican...
Salvador Novo, Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets by , Trans. by Marguerite Feitlowitz, University of Texas Press, 2014. excerpt + Google BooksWritten with exquisite...
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Entropy’s Top 93 Poetry Books in Translation of 2014
Since Coldfront didn’t mention any books of poetry not originally in English in their list of the top 40 poetry books of 2014, and since we don’t want to wallow in bitterness, we...
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Warren Motte - a book about reading and looking, about what people seek when...
Warren Motte, Mirror Gazing, Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.Mirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking, about what people seek when they read, and about what stares back at them from the printed...
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Bertrand Laverdure - part sci-fi dystopia, part social commentary and all...
Bertrand Laverdure, Universal Bureau of Copyrights, Trans. by Oana Avasilichioaei, BookThug, 2014.From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights , a bold,...
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Gregoire Pam Dick - a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and...
Gregoire Pam Dick, Metaphysical Licks,BookThug, 2014.excerptMetaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the...
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Reginald Ullmann - Resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of such...
Reginald Ullmann, The Country Road,Trans. by Kurt Beals. New Directions, 2015.Lauded by Hesse, Rilke, Musil, and Mann, this is the first book to appear in English by the unique Swiss modernist Regina...
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Alex Green - In Green’s sun-battered landscape, it’s always the last day of...
Alex Green, Emergency Anthems, Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015.www.alexgreenbooks.com“Alex Green’s work blossoms on the page like small explosions. A surf-side Spoon River tinged with Chandler, Dali, and...
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Lev Rubinstein is the true heir of the OBERIU artists of the late 1920s. Like...
Lev Rubinstein, Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties, Trans. by Philip Metres, Tatiana Tulchinsky, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014."An engaging translation of a major work of contemporary Russian...
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Douglas Glover - This headlong, intense interior monologue combines humour,...
Douglas Glover, Elle, Goose Lane Editions; 2 ed., 2007.douglasglover.net/Imagine a 16th-century society belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza, and you'll have an...
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Linda Boström Knausgård - a mythical tale in which a father gives birth to a...
Linda Boström Knausgård, The Helios Disaster,Trans. by Rachel Willson-Broyles. World Editions, 2015.excerptThe Helios Disaster is a mythical tale in which a father gives birth to a twelve-year-old...
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The Force of What's Possible: Writers on Accessibility & The Avant-Garde - Is...
The Force of What's Possible: Writers on Accessibility & The Avant-Garde, Eds. Lily Hoang and Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Nightboat, 2015.Is there any avant-garde? What’s at stake when 100 writers...
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HR Hegnauer - Who is Sir? A pivot of language for an old man with a life of...
HR Hegnauer, Sir, Portable Press at Yo-yo Labs, 2013www.hrhegnauer.com/about/Excerpts on Feminist WireWho is Sir? A pivot of language for an old man with a life of curious stories; a ghost, a mirage,...
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