The New Babel by Leonard Schwartz The University of Arkansas Press, 2016 190 pages – University of Arkansas Press / Amazon For many years Leonard Schwartz has produced…
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. —Rosa Luxemburg I do believe there might be ways in language to express the extreme, the fleeting, the fugitive states that…
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She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks by M. NourbeSe Philip Wesleyan University Press, 2015 (reprint) 110 pages – Wesleyan / Amazon You know the more things change The…
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The Narco-Imaginary: Essays Under the Influence by Ramsey Scott Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016 208 pages – Ugly Duckling / Amazon Avital Ronell notes that Walter Benjamin begins his essay,…
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Cinepoems and Others by Benjamin Fondane Translated by Mitchell Abidor, Marianne Bailey, E.M. Cioran, Marilyn Hacker, Henry King, Andrew Rubens, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, and Leonard Schwartz 240 pages – NYRB / Amazon…
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Dirty Poem by Ferreira Gullar Translated by Leland Guyer New Directions, 2015 64 pages – New Directions / Amazon “Art exists because life is not enough” –Ferreira Gullar “I…
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My Ogre Book, Shadow Theater, Midnight by Marcel Broodthaers Siglio Press, 2015 160 pages – Silgio / Amazon Marcel Broodthaers first published My Ogre Book, an assemblage of poetic text fragments,…
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1.) Each morning the newspaper contains a litany of personal tragedies. All death, even when it’s the result of a mass conflict or event, happens at a personal level. One…
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1.) Crimson Peak Crimson Peak, the 2015 gothic horror film by Guillermo del Toro, is an absolute delight. It’s moody in that singular del Toro fashion, heavy on ooze and…
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Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha Ed. By Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, and Hermann Zschiegner MIT Press, 2013 288 pages – MIT Press / Amazon Suite…
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The Duppy by Anthony C. Winkler Originally published in 1996; reissued by Akashic in 2008 175 pages – Akashic / Amazon Great reading experiences often have a sense of serendipity:…
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An Erotics of Seeing: The force of photography as philosophy’s broken sentence Black Scat Books, 2015 60 pages – Black Scat / Amazon 1. Doug Rice begins his compelling new collection,…
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Their Days Are Numbered is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online novel written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis.…
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“I often wondered whether God ruled over numbers” —Jeanne Moreau, Bay of Angels 1. At a decisive moment of Jacques Demy’s 1963 film, Bay of Angels, a young bureaucrat and…
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