|  Composition in Retrospect By John Cage. Written in his characteristic “mesostics” (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), Composition in Retrospect is a statement of methodology in which composer John Cage examines the central issues of his work: >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972118
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Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician By Alfred Jarry. Introduction by Roger Shattuck. Translated by Simon Watson Taylor. Alfred Jarry is best known as the author of the proto-Dada play Ubu Roi, but this anarchic novel of absurdist philosophy is widely regarded as the central work to his oeuvre. Exploits and Opinions of >>more
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ISBN 9781878972071
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Pub Date: 06/15/1996 Active/Awaiting stock
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 How I Wrote Certain Of My Books Introduction by John Ashbery. Text by Raymond Roussel. Translated by Trevor Winkfield. Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the twentieth century. His unearthly style based on elaborate linguistic riddles and puns fascinated the Surrealists >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972149
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 288 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  I Am Sitting in a Room By Brian Dillon. Edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi. The inaugural volume in Cabinet’s new 24-Hour Book series, I Am Sitting in a Room—written and designed in one day—explores the scenography and architecture of writing itself. Inspired in part by Georges Perec’s short fragment >>more
Cabinet Books
ISBN 9781932698541
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 74 pgs / 7 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Impressions of Raymond Roussel: Locus Solus Text by Joao Fernándes, François Piron, Patrick Besnier, Annie Le Brun, Astrid Ruffa, Linda Henderson. Few writers have had a greater impact on the methods of art-making in the twentieth century than Raymond Roussel (1877–1933). Marcel Duchamp acknowledged Roussel as the foremost influence on his “Large Glass”; André Breton described >>more
Turner
ISBN 9788475069821
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 308 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Jackson Mac Low: Doings Introduction by Steven Clay. Termed "America's most indefatigable experimental poet" by Publishers Weekly, Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004) was recognized internationally as a master innovator for nearly five decades. Doings: Assorted Performance Pieces 1955-2002 presents a >>more
Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123709
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 248 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock
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|  Maps Of City And Body: Shedding Light On The Performances Of Denise Uyehara Artwork by Denise Uyehara. Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara presents the complete texts of "Big Head" and "Maps of City and Body," two of Uyehara's most acclaimed shows. In "Big Head," >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030382
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 180 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  Migritude By Shailja Patel. The U.S. debut of internationally acclaimed poet and performance artist Shailja Patel, Migritude is a tour-de-force hybrid text that confounds categories and conventions. Part poetic memoir, part political history, Migritude weaves together >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030054
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Pbk, 5.5 x 6.25 in. / 140 pgs / 25 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Active/In stock
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 Pataphysical Essays By René Daumal. Translated by Thomas Vosteen. Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one. Alfred Jarry’s posthumous novel, Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, first appeared >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115563
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 116 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Sprawl By Danielle Dutton. Inspired by a series of domestic still lifes by photographer Laura Letinsky, Danielle Dutton's absurdly comic and decidedly digressive novel Sprawl chronicles the mercurial inner life of one suburban woman (the dissolving marriage, the crumbs >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9780979956232
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Pbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/23/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Swoon (Granary) A collaboration between Gary Sullivan and Nada Gordon. Culled from more than 5,000 pages of e-mail, Swoon is a true story of two writers who meet and fall in love over the internet. It is autobiography, poetry, literary essay and erotica all rolled >>more
Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123549
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Paperback, 5 x 7.5 in. / 312 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/2001 Active/Awaiting stock
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 The Dik-Dik's Solitude: New and Selected Works By Anne Tardos. Interview by Lyn Hejinian. At every level of Anne Tardos's paintings, films, poetry and cross-genre work, the familiar is engaged while acknowledging the violently contested landscape of what we think we know. Connection is the dominant mode of composition. >>more
Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123617
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 296 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2002 Active/Not available
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|  The Leg of Lamb By Benjamin Péret. A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, The Leg of Lamb brings together the arch-Surrealist Benjamin Péret's short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives employing everything from the cinematic antics of Bust >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115532
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 201 pgs / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  The Perpetual Motion Machine By Paul Scheerbart. In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. For the next two and a half years he >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115549
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 27 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Active/In stock
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 The Wit of the Staircase By Raul Ruiz. This novel is the final publication of the Chilean filmmaker and author Raul Ruiz (1941–2011), who died last year, and who put the finishing touches to this book a few days before his death. Here, >>more
DisVoir
ISBN 9782914563727
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 250 pgs / color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 Active/In stock
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