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Jordaan Mason - There's been a fire at the Power Company Building. A vomit of...
Jordaan Mason, The Skin Team, Magic Helicopter Press, 2013.But the horses are too sick to bet on and a map is not the territory. Three skins convulse, three bodies converge. A sickness is shared...
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Mike Kitchell - a book that should be filed in stores under “Architecture /...
M Kitchell,Slow Slidings, Blue Square Press, 2012.“Kitchell is a channel for the erotic possibilities of place.” – Edward Mullany “Take the most disconcerting moments of all the weirdest movies you...
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James Pate - The human sand pink and the pig wall burnt. The beach light...
James Pate, The Fassbinder Diaries, Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2013.The gauze of James Pate’s nightmare, critical & cinematic beauty keeps rising & falling on a “crimson couch,” “a scarlet...
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Anthony Marra - Sonja is deep into her career amputating mine-shattered...
Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Random House, 2013.excerptTwo doctors risk everything to save the life of a hunted child in this majestic debut about love, loss, and the unexpected...
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C. F. [Christopher Forgues] - a series of more than a dozen mini-comics. Each...
C.F., MERE, PictureBox Inc., 2013.In 2012 C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a...
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Rainer J. Hanshe - a visionary novel of dangerous ideas, a theological...
Rainer J. Hanshe, The Abdication, Contra Mundum Press, 2012.oulet arrives by helicopter in Rome, where his carnivalesque troupe awaits with a legion of animals and unruly kids. When provoking states...
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Uche Nduka - it is only in the oblique gaze and the excessive and errant...
Uche Nduka, Ijele, Overpass Books, 2013.A similar trickster aesthetics is at the heart of Nduka poetics. A Nigerian writer, working out of Germany and America, Nduka, like Göransson, has the unbordered...
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RELIQUIÆ #1 (2013)
Reliquiæ #1, Corbel Stone Press, 2013Reliquiæ is an annual journal of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, translations and visual art, edited by Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton. Each issue...
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Gengoroh Tagame - Master of Gay Erotic Manga: Violent, visceral and provocative
The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame by Gengoroh Tagame, ed. Anne Ishii, Chip Kidd & Graham Kobleins. PictureBox Inc, 2013.www.tagame.org/enews/www.tagame.org/enews/?paged=2Provocative to say the least,...
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Stephen Beachy is a complete visionary, a sorceror, a secret weapon. First...
Stephen Beachy, boneyard, Verse Chorus Press, 2011. read it at Google Bookwww.livingjelly.com/livingjelly.blogspot.com/Watch the book trailer here!In this unusual “collaborative novel,” Jake Yoder, a...
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Claire Donato follows grief logic into a space of defamiliarization, speaking...
Claire Donato, Burial, Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013.excerpt (pdf)www.somanytumbleweeds.com/clairedonato.tumblr.com/Set in the mind of a narrator who is grieving the loss of her father, who conflates her...
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Cassandra Troyan - Her narratives form a feedback loop with the sound a human...
Cassandra Troyan, Throne of Blood, Solar Luxuriance, 2013.READ EXCERPTS ONLINE:THE CASTLE THAT ONLY GOD KNOWS / IMMA SELL MY GUNS AND THEN TAKE YOU TO VEGASASSASSINS OF GOD / (stick your finger through...
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Shira Dentz narrates a fairy-tale-like story, “perhaps / a fairy tale,” of a...
Shira Dentz, door of thin skins, CananKerry Press, 2013www.shiradentz.com/door of thin skins, a hybrid collection of poetry and prose, deconstructs the nature of psychological power through the...
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Andrew Morgan - a world of violence, loss, and need. Much akin to the...
Andrew Morgan, Month of Big Hands. Natural History Press, 2013.In Month of Big Hands, Andrew Morgan creates a stunningly beautiful world of violence, loss, and need. This book is a masterfully written...
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Anthony Madrid - Allusive, oracular, heretical, brash, learned, apocalyptic,...
Anthony Madrid, I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say, Canarium Books, 2012.Poetry. Allusive, oracular, heretical, brash, learned, apocalyptic, astronomical, funny, lustful, and deceptively wise, Anthony...
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Princess Sappho [Léon Genonceaux] - the most outrageous "decadent novel" ever...
Princess Sappho (Léon Genonceaux), The Tutu, morality of the fin-de-siècle, Atlas Press, 2013. [1891.] A great "lost novel". Published in 1891, it was never released to bookshops, since its author...
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George Melly - a memoir of the Surrealist poet, collagist and art-dealer ELT...
George Melly, Don't Tell Sybil: An Intimate Memoir of ELT Mesens, Heinemann, 1997.In this memoir, the author remembers the times he spent in the company of E.L.T. Mesens and his wife Sybil. The text is...
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Gabby Bess - a virtual rolodex of self-inquisition shaped by boredom, horror,...
Gabby Bess, Alone with Other People, Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2013.“What Gabby Bess captures with her words is the beauty of a fragile time and place. In this collection, she evokes what it means to be...
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Panaït Istrati - a born poet madly in love with simple things like adventure,...
Panaït Istrati,Kyra Kyralina, Trans. by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno. Talisman House, 2010.Kyra Kyralina, upon publication early in the nineteen twenties, immediately established its author as a leading...
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Miklós Bánffy - a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the...
Miklós Bánffy, The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume I: They Were Counted, Everyman's Library, 2013. The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Miklós Bánffy is a stunning historical epic set in the...
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