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Rémy de Gourmont - The Book Of Masks: one of the most important overviews of...
Rémy de Gourmont, The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing,Trans. by Andrew Mangravite, Iain White, Stanley Chapman, Terry Hale, John Harman, & others. Edited by...
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Konstantin Biebl - Very much in the vein of Poetism, it presents the mindset...
Konstantin Biebl, The Plancius, Trans. by Jed Slast, Twisted Spoon Press, 2012. [1931.]read it at www.scribd.com/doc/97195996/The-PlanciusKonstantin Biebl (1898-1951) was a member of Devětsil and...
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Louis Lüthi - an attempt to create a taxonomy for how non-textual pages...
Louis Lüthi, On the Self-Reflexive Page, Roma Publications, 2010.The subject of this book is the page, and the pages reproduced in it are taken from works of literature (or, in some cases, art books...
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France,Ed. by Asti Hustvedt, Zone Books, 2013.In fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with...
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Mok Hossfeld - A page of Mok before breakfast can give you the strength of a...
Mok Hossfeld, Doña Juana, Gelded Lizard Press, 1995."The most authentic chicken toes since Robert Walser or Charles Willeford... A page of Mok before breakfast can give you the strength of a hundred...
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Blaster Al Ackerman (19xx – 2013) is a hallmark of the obscure, but those who...
“Blaster” Al Ackerman died on Sunday. He was a general in Baltimore’s literary avant garde—though it occurs to me that assigning him a rank is way too straightforward for Blaster’s interstellar...
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Ivan Blatny - terms like exile literature, subversion, appropriation,...
Ivan Blatny, The Drug of Art: Selected Poems, Trans. by Matthew Sweney, Justin Quinn, and Alex Zucker, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007. Lost to the world for decades, Ivan Blatný was, according to the...
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Giorgio Vasta - A political parable that operates on various levels, from...
Giorgio Vasta, Time on My Hands, Trans. by Jonathan Hunt, Faber & Faber, 2013.Palermo, Sicily, 1978. The Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro has just been kidnapped in Rome by members of the...
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Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present...
Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature. Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour. University of California Press, 2013.read it at Google...
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Bennett Sims - The architecture of zombie-logic is rewired, and the undead...
Bennett Sims, A Questionable Shape, Two Dollar Radio, May 2013.“Bennett Sims is a writer fearsomely equipped with an intellectual and linguistic range to rival a young Nabokov’s, Nicholson Baker’s gift...
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Penny Arcade's brand of high camp and street-smart, punk-rock cabaret...
Penny Arcade, Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews, Semiotext(e), 2009.www.pennyarcade.tv/A runaway at thirteen, a reform-school graduate at sixteen, a performer in the legendary New York...
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Chelsey Minnis - A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and...
Chelsey Minnis, Poemland, Wave Books, 2009. This is when you think you are earning a freedom from self-disgust through busy-work...The poem lies on the floor until you step on it and it sticks to your...
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María Negroni's novel-in-verse presents a journey to a terrible yet somehow...
Maria Negroni, Mouth of Hell, Trans. by Michelle Gil-Montero, Action Books, 2013.The forest dark as ever, without latitudes. An aide-de-camp to say something about nothing and guide us up the river of...
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Reconsidering the Postmodern: European Literature beyond Relativism - twelve...
Reconsidering the Postmodern: European Literature beyond Relativism, Thomas Vaessens and Yra van Dijk, eds., Amsterdam University Press, 2012. Reconsidering the Postmodern takes the reader on a...
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Carl Michael Edenborg - Sexuality in the realm of parapornography is not a...
Carl Michael Edenborg, Manifesto of Parapornography, Action Books, 2013."Edenborg's manifesto shines brightly within a constellation that includes Bosch's garden, Spinoza's philosophy of immanence,...
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Elaine Kahn - she can’t not stare at the reality of reality as a set of...
Elaine Kahn, A Voluptuous Dream During an Eclipse, Poor Claudia, 2012.www.tumblr.com/tagged/elaine%20kahnQuite simply, I love Elaine Kahn's poetry. I especially love to hear her read it. But when I...
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LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - a dope jam of dictions; a remixed, multicultural,...
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, TWeRK, Belladona, 2013.latashadiggs.tumblr.com/TWERK unveils an identity shaped by popular media and history, code switching and cultural inclusivity. The poems, songs, and...
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Hugh Behm-Steinberg - A child (“beautiful[ly] unbearable body”) emerges from...
Hugh Behm-Steinberg, The Opposite of Work, Illustr. by Mary Behm-Steinberg. Jackleg Press, 2013.Hugh Steinberg's intimate, honest poems, labor toward a personal mythology where the return to Eden is a...
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Nick Sturm - running and reveling like a goddamn stampede of joy: All this is...
Nick Sturm, I Feel YES, Forklift, 2013.isaidokwow.tumblr.com/It’s a chapbook. It’s one long poem. It’s freaking awesome. It’s in a baggie because the lettering is made out of lemonade. It’s made out of...
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LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - a dope jam of dictions; a remixed, multicultural,...
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, TWeRK, Belladona, 2013.latashadiggs.tumblr.com/TWERK unveils an identity shaped by popular media and history, code switching and cultural inclusivity. The poems, songs, and...
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