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Tiffany Midge - The language sizzles, the images are burned into memory, the...
Tiffany Midge, Outlaws, Renegades & Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Half Breed, Greenfield Review Press, 1996.tourquoise.livejournal.com/OUTLAWS, RENEGADES AND SAINTS is an explosion of talent and...
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Ambroise Paré - an illustrated encyclopedia of curiosities, of monstrous...
Ambroise Paré, On Monsters and Marvels, Trans. by Janis L. Pallister, The University of Chicago Press, 1982. [1582.]Ambroise Paré, born in France around 1510, was chief surgeon to both Charles IX and...
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Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili shoots from the hip in these intimate tales of...
Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, Me, Margarita: Stories, Trans. by Natalie Bukia-Peters, Dalkey Archive Press, 2015.Short stories about men and women, love and hate, sex and disappointment, cynicism and...
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Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic - the novella is set in Prague, which is portrayed as...
Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, A Gothic Soul, Trans. by Kirsten Lodge, Twisted Spoon Press, 2015.A Gothic Soul is the most acclaimed work of Czech Decadent prose. Expressing concerns that are unique to the...
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Richard Weiner - Blending metaphysical questions with farcical humor, bizarre...
Richard Weiner, The Game for Real, Trans. by Benjamin Paloff, Two Lines Press, 2015. excerptCompared to Kafka and a member of the Surrealists, Richard Weiner is one of European literature’s...
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Léon Bloy - Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of...
Léon Bloy, Disagreeable Tales, Trans. by Erik Butler, Wakefield Press, 2015.Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "ungrateful...
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Michael Sweeney - an engaging and combative volume of quips and koans, all...
Michael Sweeney, Octagon Commonweal, Spuyten Duyvil, 2014.If there is any elbow room between the crazy eights of classical history and the current pop conundrum on the heels of American jazz, Mike...
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Peter Valente has done everything that a translator/reader of Artaud...
Peter Valente, The Artaud Variations, Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2014. From metaphysics to rationalism, from communism to capitalism, and from sexuality to the self, these...
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Christian Bobin honors Dickinson in the form of a brief, poetically imagined...
Christian Bobin, The Lady in White, Trans. by Alison Anderson, University of nebraska Press, 2014. [2008.]Read an Excerpt (pdf)To this day, Emily Dickinson remains a beloved and enigmatic figure in...
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Tim Dee argues that we must attend to what we have made of the wild, to look...
Tim Dee, Four Fields,Jonathan Cape, 2013.www.timdee.net/twitter.com/timdee4"In his first book since The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the world:...
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Alice Oswald - In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the...
Alice Oswald, Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, Faber & Faber, 2011.Matthew Arnold praised the "Iliad" for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since - but ancient critics praised it for its...
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Shane Jesse Christmass - This is the decade of hate. Cold War. Reaganomics....
Shane Jesse Christmass, Acid Shottas, The LedaTape Organisation, 2014.shanejessechristmass.tumblr.com/luparapublishing.blogspot.com/enclave.entropymag.org/tag/shane-jesse-christmass/550 Photos and...
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100 Artists' Manifestos - cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as...
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin, 2011.In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of...
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BibliOdyssey - a myriad of long-forgotten imagery has now re-surfaced, from...
BibliOdyssey: Amazing Archival Images from the Internet, Fuel Publishing, 2007. bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/With just a few select books to date, the British publisher (and...
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Ching-In Chen constructs a re-naming, a caterwaul call to arms to attend to...
Ching-In Chen, The Heart's Traffic, Red Hen Press, 2009.www.chinginchen.com/This novel-in-poems chronicles the life of Xiaomei, an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend. Told through a...
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Jeff Bezos - Relentless contains the diverse voices of 23 poets. This is a...
Jeff Bezos, Relentless, Berfrois, 2014.Download PDFPoems by Russell Bennetts, Daniel Bosch, Andrea Cohen, Tom Daley, Katie Degentesh, Leontia Flynn, Benjamin Friedlander, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon,...
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Terra Leigh Bell - In August of 2011, poet Terra began reading Don Quixote...
Terra Leigh Bell, Beltenebros, or the Beautiful Obscure. Babel Salvage, 2014.babelsalvage.com/tag/terra-leigh-bell/leighandharriet.blogspot.com/In August of 2011, poet Terra Leigh Bell began reading...
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Ashley Farmer - The “reality” of Beside Myself is an off-kilter one, where a...
Ashley Farmer, Beside Myself, TINY HARDCORE BOOKS, 2014.www.ashleymfarmer.com/about.htmlfrom Beside MyselfGigantic #5--Talk IssueGiganticPANK (Six) The CollagistNAPDIAGRAMThe...
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Jeremy Fernando - If writing is of the order of death, and reading is the...
Jeremy Fernando, Writing Death,with an introduction by Avital Ronell. The Hague: Uitgeverij, 2011.jeremyfernando.com/Writing Death opens a meditation on the possibility of mourning; of whether there is...
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Francisco Cândido Xavier - These poems were dictated to Xavier by a variety...
Francisco Cândido Xavier, Poetry from Beyond the Grave, Trans. by Vitor Pequeno. Uitgeverij,2013.Poetry from Beyond the Grave is the first English publication of a large selection of poems by the...
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