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  • William T. Vollmann – Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, Vol. 2
    William T. Vollmann – Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, Vol. 2
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    In this landmark collection, William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from Vollmann on his process, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert
    Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert
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    Richard Artschwager: Into The Desert is the first Artschwager monograph that focuses exclusively on the artist’s drawings, and their intimate and influential relationship on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy
    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy
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    Ilya Kabakov was born in the USSR in 1933, and immigrated to New York in 1992. He began working with his wife, Emilia, in 1989. The two continue to produce […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
    Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
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    Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
    Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
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    Like an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
    Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
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    THE SINGING KNIVES, originally published in 1971 by Broughton’s Mill Mountain Press, is Frank Sanford’s first collection of poetry. Reprinted by his own press, Lost Roads Publisher, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
    Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
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    The artistic heir of sonic artists such as John Cage and James Tenney, John Luther Adams is one of the most significant and highly regarded contemporary American composers. The Farthest […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • E.Graham Howe – She And Me (as-is)
    E.Graham Howe – She And Me (as-is)
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    “For those interested in the sociological, psychological and religious problems of today, this new book by Dr. Graham Howe is of the greatest importance. Dealing with many subjects and, in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lynn Higgins – New Novel, New Wave, New Politics
    Lynn Higgins – New Novel, New Wave, New Politics
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    Until now, writings on the celebrated movements in literature and film that emerged in France in the mid-1950s—the New Novel and New Wave—have concentrated on their formal innovations, not on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema As Heresy
    Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema As Heresy
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    The major Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a poet, novelist, essayist, and iconoclastic political commentator. Naomi Greene reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joseph Beuys: The Reader
    Joseph Beuys: The Reader
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    Twentieth-century artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)—legendary and self-mythologizing, enigmatic and controversial—remains an important influence on artists today. Beuys embraced radically [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
    Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
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    The infamous “Moors Murderer,” writing from his U.K. jail cell, Brady provides a rambling account of the socio-philosophical and psychological genesis of the modern day serial killer, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
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    Written between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini’s imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ruggero Vasari – Raun
    Ruggero Vasari – Raun
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    Raun, certainly one of the great works of Futurist drama, if not the greatest, was written by Ruggero Vasari from 1926 to 1927 before being published in 1932. Here, presented […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
    Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
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    Self-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing Melodies
    Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing Melodies
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    As the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rainer J. Hanshe – Dionysos Speed
    Rainer J. Hanshe – Dionysos Speed
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    As the digitization of every aspect of existence grows more pervasive and absolute, from the monitoring of thought to the tracking even of genitals, the central nervous system of the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
    Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
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    Written in his Bastille cell in the years between 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, this is the first English translation of Marquis de Sade’s collection of short works, Stories, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg
    Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg
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    Children of the New Flesh is a wide-ranging compendium of reflections on the enduring impact of David Cronenberg, one of the most significant filmmakers of all time. Focusing on a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gerhard Roth – The Will to Sickness
    Gerhard Roth – The Will to Sickness
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    Gerhard Roth burst on the German-speaking scene in the early 1970s with three fiercely experimental novels, among them our present DER WILLE ZUR KRANKHEIT (1973). It is here that Roth […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
    Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
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    Norma Cole has combed through books, little magazines, and correspondence to gather an exciting body of writing by our French contemporaries. There are letters, poems, interviews, critical [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
    Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
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    Composed of poems, prose segments, and visual pieces, this remarkable first book is both formal and colloquial, fluid and hard-edge, with the diction riffing between Biblical and Dylanesque. A [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Brendan Connell – Cannibals of West Papua
    Brendan Connell – Cannibals of West Papua
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    Few indeed have penetrated the remote areas of West Papua, a land abounding in ritual and magic. A breviary of anthropophagy and the supernatural, Cannibals of West Papua recounts the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
    Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
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    Giovanbattista Tusa takes the commitment of lending his voice to the voiceless further, reaching the depth that the Anthropocene demands from us. He finds the words that won’t fill the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Habib Tengour – Crossings
    Habib Tengour – Crossings
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    Beginning with the astonishing prologue poem, “Conversation with Mohammed Dib,” followed by four long, spectacular poems, each a small book in itself, Habib Tengour’s Crossings takes us through [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
    Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
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    “About Champollion I knew: that he did not go to Egypt with Napoleon, that he never saw the actual Rosetta stone, only more or less bad copies, that he suffered […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bénédicte Vilgrain – A Tibetan Grammar
    Bénédicte Vilgrain – A Tibetan Grammar
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    “For the past several years, Vilgrain has been working on an open-ended project titled A Tibetan Grammar, which explores language from an almost architectural perspective, using the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
    Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
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    one part ketamine spiral, one part confessional travelogue from the edge of gender, tgsm is a hallucinatory transmission on sex, identity, the internet, and the flickering wish not to exist […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
    Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
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    An aggravated surveyer of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism, Felix Bernstein conducts an archaeological dig of the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and his own [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
    Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
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    If you search on references to Ron Silliman in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011), you [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
    Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
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    Jeremy Reed’s Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging, provocative assessments, in which the field of writing, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
    Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
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    Kyle Booten’s colossal Salon des Fantômes is a farcical evening with the digital summoning of long dead thinkers from history. They discuss aesthetics & ethics while getting falldown [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
    John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
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    It was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Liberated Film Club
    The Liberated Film Club
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    The Liberated Film Club—running from its birth to its death, 2016 to 2020—would guarantee a wide wing-span for critical conversation. Screening “Liberated film” (a loose category designed to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
    J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
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    THE CATHEDRAL, by J.K. Huysmans was originally published in French in 1898. The same year, this English translation by Clara Bell was published. THE CATHEDRAL is the second in a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Trefry – Plats
    John Trefry – Plats
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    Plats is the ornate debut novel by John Trefry. A hallucinatory meditation on life in Los Angeles by a schizophrenic consciousness, Plats turns a funhouse mirror on the banality of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
    Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
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    Garden of Ashes, Cookie Mueller’s second entry into the Hanuman Books canon (following 1988’s Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls) brings together ten stories, autobiographical [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
    As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
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    What our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
    Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
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    The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback   Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
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    In 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
    Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
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    What our staff has to say: “A unique and disturbing memoir from an underread surrealist master” – Cleo Anagram play meets psychic crisis in Unica Zürn’s acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
    Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
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    Collected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; two if his most memorable novels, Car and The Gypsy’s Curse; […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
    Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
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    Between 1980 and 1989, Los Angeles was the world’s most popular location for thriller movies, providing the perfect setting for gritty neo-noirs, buddy cop actioners, cautionary tales, vigilante [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
    Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
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    The first in a two-volume series, as part of a co-publishing project between PM Press and Kersplebedeb, is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Copi – The Queens’ Ball
    Copi – The Queens’ Ball
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    The first English translation of Copi’s comic masterpiece, a careening pyrotechnic picaresque across France, America, and Ibiza. Set among the flamboyant demi-monde of the 1970s Paris [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Last Dangerous Visions
    The Last Dangerous Visions
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    An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series. In 1973 celebrated […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Horror/Science Fiction
  • Ingeborg Bachmann – The Honditsch Cross
    Ingeborg Bachmann – The Honditsch Cross
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    Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
    Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
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    Welcome to a miasmic world of passion and play, in which humans and dolls interact to the ecstatic point of blurring the boundaries between waking reality and dark dreams; between […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
    Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
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    A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death. Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
    Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
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    Other Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction