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A Community Writing Itself
Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area
Sarah Rosenthal interviews contemporary experimental American writers about art and life.
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Modern and Contemporary Swiss Poetry
An Anthology
Featuring the work of some of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, this anthology is unique in bringing together a broad selection of Switzerland's greatest authors in all of the country's major languages . . .
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Modern Poetry of Pakistan
The first anthology of its kind to appear in English, Modern Poetry of Pakistan brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from seven major languages . . .
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Heimrad Bäcker, Vincent Kling, Patrick Greaney
A disturbing document and a powerful, poetic masterpiece, transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not "unspeakable," but was an eminently describable and described act...
Charles Simic
The cumulative effect of these fragments is harrowing. A letter says: "i probably won't ever see you again, won't hear your voice, won't kiss you. but how i want to see you, if only once!" In the long lists of names, one or two stick out. What did the tailor Zoltan Fleishmann look like? What sort of life did the shopkeeper Bernhard Herskovits have? We read about a camp inmate who was punished with death for not executing with total accuracy the motion of taking off his cap and putting it... cont'd
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Some Thing Black
Jacques Roubaud, Rosmarie Waldrop
In 1983 Jacques Roubaud's wife Alix Cleo died at the age of 31 of a pulmonary embolism. The grief-stricken author responded with one brief poem ("Nothing"), then fell silent for thirty months.
In subsequent years, Roubaud—poet, novelist...
Times Literary Supplement
"This is a harrowing book, about the death of Jacques Roubaud's wife . . . It expresses the emotions of a real-life 'I' in a way which Roubaud's earlier poetry has not led one to expect. Even the blanks in the phrasing, which before served metric or rhythmic functions, suggest difficulties in breathing, perhaps sobs. Roubaud manages to write the book partly by refusing poetry, and observing its inadequacy. The starkness of a personal experience renders unacceptable the lyrical, elegiac tone,... cont'd
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Sentimental Songs (La poesia cursi)
Felipe Alfau, Ilan Stavans
Almost lost to literary history, Felipe Alfau was rediscovered in 1988 with the republication of his proto-postmodernist novel Locos; in 1990 his only other novel, Chromos (written in 1948), was published for the first time...
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Talking
David Antin
"If someone came up and started talking
a poem at you how would you know it
was a poem?" So begins David Antin's Talking, a collection of writings that defy classification. Combining a passion for storytelling and improvisation with a unique...
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Contemporary Russian Poetry: An Anthology
Evgeny Bunimovich, J. Kates
Prominent Moscow poet Evgeny Bunimovich selected representative work from forty-four living Russian poets born after 1945 to be translated and published in this bilingual edition. The collection ranges from the mordant post-Soviet irony of Igor...
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Shorter Poems
Gerald Burns
Gerald Burns is a leading practitioner of the long-lined, thickly textured verse. "These / long lines are long life to us, go back to Kenneth Irby's 'A Set' I saw first in / a flyer from Lawrence, KS where Burroughs chats with Cage whose spitbubbles /...
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Dust
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Shushan Avagyan, Thomas Epstein, Evgeny Pavlov, Ana Lucic
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russia’s leading founder of Language poetry, in his new collection of essays fuses seemingly disparate elements of poetry, philosophy, journalism, and prose in an attempt to capture the workings of memory. At stake is not what...
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