Jean de La Ville de Mirmont - Before his death at the age of 27, he left...
Jean de La Ville de Mirmont, The Sundays of Jean Dézert, Trans. by André Naffis-Sahely , Wakefield Press, 2019.“He thought of life as a waiting room for third-class travelers. From the moment he...
View ArticleErmanno Cavazzoni - his books push the novel to its very limits — “like...
Ermanno Cavazzoni, The Nocturnal Library, Trans. by Allan Cameron, Vagabond Voices, 2013.Ermanno Cavazzoni admits that his books push the novel to its very limits — “like outpourings of the maniacal”,...
View ArticleGaston de Pawlowski was the France’s Albert Einstein of humor. a dizzying...
Gaston de Pawlowski, Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension, Trans. by Brian Stableford, Hollywood Comics, 2009.Written between 1895 and 1912, Gaston de Pawlowski's Journey to the Land of the...
View ArticleOtto Julius Bierbaum - a Gnostic steppingstone between German Romanticism and...
Otto Julius Bierbaum, Samalio Pardulus, Trans. by W. C. Bamberger, Illustrations by Alfred Kubin, Wakefield Press, 2019.[1908.]“He stepped very close to me, and his eyes were terrible as he said, ‘Hear...
View ArticleRosmarie Waldrop - the narrator writes to her sister, trying to come to terms...
Rosmarie Waldrop,The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter and a Form / of Taking / It All, Northwestern University Press, 2001.read it at Google BooksThese two novels explore the themes of physical and emotional...
View ArticleDavid Scott - connections between the hands of Michelangelo’s David and the...
David Scott, Cut Up on Copacabana, Dalkey Archive Press, 2018.What’s the connection between the hands of Michelangelo’s David and the leaning Tower of Pisa? – a flashflood in a Thai regional airport...
View ArticleState Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship,...
State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art, Ed. by Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich, Institute of Network Cultures, 2019.read it here...
View ArticleAUDINT - The 64 short essays in this volume probe how unsound serves to...
AUDINT—Unsound:Undead, Ed. By Steve Goodman, Toby Heys and Eleni Ikoniadou, Urbanomic, 2019.http://www.audint.net/www/For as long as recording and communications technologies have existed, the...
View ArticleReza Negarestani and Keith Tilford create a graphically stunning and...
Reza Negarestani and Keith Tilford, Chronosis 1, Urbanomic, 2019.Approaching the comic medium as a supercollider for achieving maximum abstraction, in Chronosis artist Keith Tilford and philosopher...
View ArticleBernard Lortat-Jacob - Refusing to separate the music from the world in which...
Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Sardinian Chronicles, Trans. by Teresa Lavender Fagan, The University of Chicago Press, 1995.read it at Google BooksThe forward is written by Michel Leiris who begins by comparing...
View ArticleEd Smith blazed onto the Los Angeles poetry scene in the early 1980s from out...
Ed Smith, Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith, Ed. by David Trinidad, Turtle Point Press, 2019.In Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World, David Trinidad...
View ArticleAdam S. Cantwell - These stories are richly imagined mysteries. They could be...
Adam S. Cantwell, Bastards of the Absolute, Egaeus Press, 2015.Bastards of the Absolute contains eleven pieces — a mix of novellas and short stories, revised and reworked especially for this book —...
View ArticleNoel Black - Some of these are poems of experience. Others are night raids or...
Noel Black, Uselysses,Ugly Duckling Presse,2012.Noel Black's 'Uselysses' contains five discrete books of poems written over the last four years. Some of these are poems of experience. Others are night...
View ArticleElizabeth Otto - this spirited study reclaims another overlooked Bauhaus...
Elizabeth Otto, Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics, MIT, 2019.An investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling...
View ArticleNeolithic Childhood examines how the artistic avant-gardes reacted to the...
Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930, Ed. by Anselm Franke and Tom Holert, Diaphanes, 2018. download manual for Neolithic Childhoodaudio and video recordingsResonating...
View ArticlePaul Colinet "is the Don Juan of words". His poems—rich with the enchanted...
Paul Colinet, The Lamp’s Tales, Trans. by Rochelle Ratner and Michael Kasper, Pleasure Editions, 2019.excerptsThe poet Paul Colinet (1898–1957) was a primary figure in the Belgian Surrealist group, one...
View ArticleMario Montalbetti - His texts are a constant invitation to leave language...
Mario Montalbetti, Language Is a Revolver For Two, Trans. by Clare Sullivan, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018.Language Is a Revolver for Two revolves around the premise that within an economy of supply and...
View ArticleBenjamin Robert Haydon - These are the writings of a painter who was so bad...
Benjamin Robert Haydon, Neglected Genius: The Diaries of Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1808-1846, Faber & Faber, 2012.read it at Google BooksThe journal of Benjamin Haydon was, Max Beerbohm reported to...
View ArticleNeurotransmissions: Essays on Psychedelics from Breaking Convention - an...
Neurotransmissions: Essays on Psychedelics from Breaking Convention, Ed. by Cameron Adams and Ben Sessa, Strange Attractor Press, 2015.Neurotransmissions presents an interdisciplinary selection of 23...
View ArticleHarry Martinson - a poem of science fiction written by Swedish Nobel...
Harry Martinson, Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem, Trans. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg,Story Line Press, 1998.read it hereAniara (Swedish: Aniara : en revy om människan i tid och rum]) is a...
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