Theory

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…

The Devastation by Melissa Buzzeo Nightboat Books, 2015 184 pages – Nightboat / Amazon   I first encountered Melissa Buzzeo’s writing when I was 23. It was 2007, a year after I…

I will say that the beauty of a small press is that you can take small risks, and ideally use any limitations as assets. One of the things that I love about the stories of Black Mountain College is that they had little in terms of resources but nevertheless had a tremendous cultural impact. Of course it’s easier to think like that now that we have a degree of stability, but especially in the beginning we had little to no overhead. Which is a good thing, because it took about four years before the first two books we’d published paid for themselves. Since then the press mostly maintains itself, but definitely I would say it’s a lucky thing to break even on a project and any earned income goes into future publishing projects.

So we’re not much into categories. Not when it comes to Delete Press. We are open to anything, but that doesn’t mean we like everything. We publish “anti-gravity ephemera,” as Crane puts it. As far as the medium is concerned, electronic or print, we make that call based on the manuscript, as we seek a harmony of form and content.

Aesthetically and mission-wise, which is to say, in relation (as Kamau Brathwaite advises poets, it has to be) to the rest of the poetry field, I’d like to think of Delete as a dexterous flea.

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Graywolf Press, May 2015 160 pages – Graywolf / Amazon   Maggie Nelson’s latest memoir, The Argonauts, takes a critical look at maternity, parenting, and both…

Sylvère Lotringer started Semiotext(e) with a group of friends and grad students at Columbia University in 1974. It quickly evolved from a journal of semiotic theory to a popular magazine, juxtaposing high theory and underground culture, after the publication of the “Schizo-Culture” issue in 1978. The issue brought together artists and thinkers as diverse as Gilles Deleuze, Kathy Acker, John Cage, Michel Foucault, Jack Smith, William Burroughs, and Lee Breuer.

On the New by Boris Groys Translated by G. M. Goshgarian Verso, July 2014 208 pages – Verso / Amazon   In Boris Groys’s book, On the New, Groys argues against…

The Order of Things: An Archaeology  of the Human Sciences by Michael Foucault Random House, 1970 416 pages – Amazon To answer why do things make sense, in The Order of…

Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze Originally published in 1968 Translated by Paul Patton – Columbia University Press, 1994 Amazon This is my second time reading this book. I think the first…

Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser University of Michigan Press, 1994 Originally Published in French in 1981 UofM Press / Amazon This is not an easy book…