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Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
$21.00 | Book, CD Add to cartRecital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (New […]
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Will Oldham & Lori Damiano – Shorty’s Ark
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartShorty’s Ark is a book for young readers, a collaborative effort between Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano, based on the song from the album Superwolves by Matt Sweeney […]
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Gershom Gerhard Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]
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Michel Leiris – Aurora and Cardinal Point
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis volume collects two classics of Surrealist fiction, both long out of print, by the writer and ethnographer Michel Leiris (1901–1990). Close to Georges Bataille, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre and [...]
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – Dictee
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story […]
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Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMatsuo Bashō (1644–1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō offers in English a […]
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Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold Commitment
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAt once an artist’s book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), The Twofold Commitment centers on [...]
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John O’Brien – Leaving Las Vegas
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Forget the wack and overly sentimental movie, John O’Brien’s first novel is both a disturbing descent into hell and the best thing to come […]
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Mariana Dimópulos -Imminence
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her with an absence of feeling. Disoriented, she wanders with her partner around their plant-filled […]
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn anthology of Abu Hamdan’s disquieting audio-essay monologues on the soundscape of political life This volume compiles transcripts from performances and films by Beirut-based Lawrence Abu [...]
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Swans: Sacrifice and Transcendence: The Oral History
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOver a span of some three and a half decades, Michael Gira’s Swans have risen from chaotic origins in the aftermath of New York’s No Wave scene to become one […]
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Louis Aragon – Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis novel, much of it written amidst the horror of the trenches when Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a medical orderly during the First World War, demonstrates the chasm that separates […]
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Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]
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Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]
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Leonard Cohen – A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard Cohen Before Leonard Cohen’s worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy [...]
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Pierre Clastres – Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963–64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and [...]
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Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLeeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five […]
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Robert Desnos – Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA literary masterpiece of early Surrealism from the virtuoso of automatic writing, Robert Desnos Mystery, the marvelous, the city of Paris transmuted by love, and Sanglot the Corsair’s pursuit of [...]
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Léon Genonceaux – The Tutu: Morals of the Fin de Siècle
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe nineteenth-century French writer and publisher Léon Genonceaux (1856―?) is as much of an enigma as those two legendary enfants terribles whom he was the first to publish: Arthur Rimbaud […]
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Count Stenbock – The Shadow Of Death
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHere, presented for the first time in paperback format, and limited edition hardcover, is an unabridged edition of Count Eric Stenbock’s third and last collection of poetry, which was originally [...]
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Élémir Bourges – The Twilight of the Gods
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLong out of print in English, and here offered for the first time in a restored format, The Twilight of the Gods, Élémir Bourges’ acknowledged masterpiece, was originally published in […]
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Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhy, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out […]
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Max Blecher – The Illuminated Burrow: A Sanatorium Journal
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMax Blecher began writing The Illuminated Burrow in 1937 and continued working on it until his death the following spring, but its full version was only published posthumously in 1971. […]
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Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLate ’70s San Francisco. The Summer of Love is a hazy memory, the AIDS crisis is looming, and nearby Silicon Valley is still an obscure place where microchips are made. […]
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Bruno Schulz – Collected Stories
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCollected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, [...]
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Auguste Villiers De L’Isle Adam – Isis
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHere, presented in English in a long-belated translation by Brian Stableford, is Isis, the first novel of the acclaimed author of Contes cruels, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Deserving to be reckoned [...]
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Hélène Picard – Sabbat
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSabbat, by Hélène Picard (1873-1945), first published in 1923, is one of the most forthright contributions to the rich French tradition of “literary Satanism.” It was issued as part [...]
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William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Beast or poet? Monster or moralist? Charlatan or magician? Genius or madman?” These are the questions William Seabrook, the great writer on such things as zombies and witchcraft, [...]
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Paul Leppin – Blaugast: A Novel of Decline
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBlaugast is a tale of ruin. A bored clerk, Klaudius Blaugast, pursues his desires down a path spiraling into complete degradation. Homeless and destitute, having lost everything at the hands […]
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSince launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and […]
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Johannes Urzidil – House of the Nine Devils: Selected Bohemian Tales
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCollected here and translated into English for the first time are some of most renowned Bohemian stories by Prague native Johannes Urzidil, an author who has long been unjustifiably neglected. [...]
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Gherasim Luca – The Passive Vampire
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published in 1945 in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 in the magazine La part du sable. Luca, […]
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Lucie Delarue-Mardrus – Amanit
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAmanit, is one of the most distinctive works that the highly distinctive Lucie Delarue-Mardrus ever produced, written in 1929, when the author was fifty-four years old, and her meteoric career [...]
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Giorgio De Maira – The Twenty Days Of Turin
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create “the Library,” a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with [...]
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Ethel Archer – The Whirlpool
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe current edition of The Whirlpool, by Ethel Archer, is a reprint of the 1911 edition, which acquired the following comments by a select group of notable people: “I […]
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Jean Lorrain – The Blood Of The Gods
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJean Lorrain, later famous as the author of such Decadent masterpieces as Nightmares of an Ether Drinker and Errant Vice, began his literary career in 1882 with the book of […]
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Andy Davidson – The Boatman’s Daughter
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEver since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down and her eyes up, ferrying contraband for a mad preacher and […]
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Jules Janin – The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJules Janin (1804-1874) was one of the major exponents of the frénétique school of literature, which reveled in excesses, dark themes, and ghoulish situations, and The Dead Donkey and the […]
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Jerzy Zulawski – On The Silver Globe
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTrylogia Ksiezycowa (The Lunar Trilogy or The Moon Trilogy is a trilogy of science fiction novels by the Polish writer Jerzy Zulawski, written between 1901 and 1911, that served as […]
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Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHow Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hyptonism over television to control the minds of citizens.In October 1989, as the Cold [...]
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Davis Grubb – The Night Of The Hunter
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTwo young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap’s Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in […]
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The William H. Gass Reader
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThroughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most […]
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Annie Ernaux – Happening
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Great short book about the journey of a young woman who is pregnant in the 1960’s Paris, re-told as a memory.” – Jack In […]
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Islamic Mystical Poetry
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and [...]
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Peter Weibel – Sound Art
$65.00 | Book, Print, Uncategorized Add to cartEssays and images that map art’s new sonic cosmos, illustrated in color throughout. This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists’ engagement with sound. Since the beginning of [...]
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Maggot Brain #12
$12.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartCrazy Doberman ? Erick’s Bradshaw delivers an epic, well-illustrated tour diary of a brief jaunt with these noise greats. Composer TAYONDAI BRAXTON by Katy Henricksen! A meaty, beautiful [...]
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Kerry O’Brien And William Robin – On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“A revisionist history of minimalism’s transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating [...]
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Thomas Bernhard – The Voice Imitator
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard’s work depicts [...]
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Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of […]
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Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that “would be a bit more sober & more spacious” than his poems. And yet, in his […]
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The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMina Loy’s technique and subjects – prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide – shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as [...]
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Steven Cline – Amok!
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn this collection of recent texts, American surrealist artist Steven Cline has opened the floodgates to his inner worlds, demanding that we take a look. When we do, we are […]
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Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArtist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]
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Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1 – Immeasurable Equation
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSun Ra was a master jazz musician unlike any before or after him. Here is a stunning collection of 260 of his cosmic poems and selected prose.
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Kenneth Patchen – Sleepers Awake
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSleepers Awake, first published in 1946, is one of Kenneth Patchen’s major prose books. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention, it might be described as novelistic fantasy–a [...]
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Theory of the Great Game: Writings from Le Grand Jeu
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis book collects the writings of a radical group of writers close to Paris Surrealism–principally René Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte–as published in their now legendary magazine, [...]
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Ishmael Reed – Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIshmael Reed’s classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.
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Pierre Reverdy – The Thief of Talant
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChallenged by his friend, poet and art critic Max Jacob, to write a novel, Pierre Reverdy produced this fragmented, beautiful assemblage of loneliness, paranoia and depersonalization drawn from [...]
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An Anecdoted Topography of Chance: By Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth, Roland Topor.
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published by Something Else Press in 1966 and now acknowledged as one of the most important and entertaining artists’ books of the postwar period, An Anecdoted Topography of [...]
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Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAnselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo [...]