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View ArticleAnna Kostreva - A book of experimental non-fiction on travel and cities in...
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View ArticlePaul van Ostaijen - Poetry is not: thought, spirit, well-tuned phrases, it is...
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View ArticleHaroldo de Campos - As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group...
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View ArticleLutz Seiler has pulled off a difficult feat: recontextualizing and radically...
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View ArticleMário de Carvalho - a fascinating tale of political rivalries, war, religion,...
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View ArticleMichael Cross has created a pastoral theatre in which elaborate patterns of...
Michael Cross, In Felt Treeling: A Libretto, Chax Press, 2009. disinhibitor.blogspot.hr"In IN FELT TREELING, Michael Cross has created a pastoral theatre in which elaborate patterns of resemblance are...
View ArticleBette Pesetsky has borrowed Barthelme's method, but not his madness,...
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View ArticleFrançois J. Bonnet makes a compelling case for the irreducible heterogeneity...
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