 Among the most influential works of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98), Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le Hasard feels to this day revolutionary and resoundingly contemporary, both for the suggestive power of its >>more Lucia|Marquand ISBN 9780999652237 US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Slip, pbk, 2 vols, 11 x 15 in. / 64 pgs / 3 b&w. Pub Date: 06/12/2018 In stock
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|  A Book of Glyphs By Edward Sanders. A Book of Glyphs is a facsimile reproduction of legendary author, musician and Fugs founder Ed Sanders’ first book-length work of glyphs, which he created in Florence, Italy in 2008, using colored pencils and a >>more Granary Books ISBN 9781887123815 US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE Pbk, 4 x 6 in. / 168 pgs / 73 color. Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock
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|  The second published collaboration between Stéphane Mallarmé and Édouard Manet (after Mallarmé’s translation of Poe’s “The Raven”), L’après-midi d’un faune is one of the poet’s best-known works. It provided the basis for Debussy’s Prélude à >>more Lucia|Marquand ISBN 9781646570027 US $40.00 CAN $56.00 SDNR40 Pbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 24 pgs / 4 color. Pub Date: 03/10/2020 Out of stock
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 America and Other Poems: Selected Poetry by Nobuo Ayukawa By Ayukawa Nobuo. Introduction by Shogo Oketani. Translated by Shogo Oketani, Leza Lowitz. America and Other Poems is the first English translation of a single volume by the seminal Japanese Modernist poet, Ayukawa Nobuo. One of Japan's most influential yet overlooked poets, Nobuo was an important voice for >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030412 US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 144 pgs / 3 b&w. Pub Date: 06/01/2007 In stock
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|  Andrei Monastyrski: Elementary Poetry Edited with translation by Brian Droitcour, Yelena Kalinsky. Introduction by Boris Groys. Russian poet, author, artist and art theorist Andrei Monastyrski (born 1949) is, along with Ilya Kabakov, one of the founders of conceptualism in Russia, and a protagonist of Collective Actions, a group of artists who >>more Ugly Duckling Presse/Soberscove Press ISBN 9781937027681 US $28.00 CAN $38.50 TRADE Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 360 pgs / 6 color / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 12/23/2019 In stock
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|  Aurelia & Other Writings By Gérard de Nerval. Translated by Geoffrey Wagner, Robert Duncan, Marc Lowenthal. Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s account of his descent into madness—a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled “bohemians,” >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972095 US $15.95 CAN $22.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs. Pub Date: 02/02/2004 In stock
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 A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick
In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: for one month she shot a roll of 35mm film each day and kept a journal. >>more Siglio ISBN 9781938221255 US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE Hbk, 10 x 7.25 in. / 332 pgs / 1155 color. Pub Date: 06/09/2020 Out of stock
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|  Truong Tran’s provocative collection of poetry, prose and essays is a stunning rebuttal to the idea of anti-Asian racism as a victimless crime. Written with a compulsion for lucidity that transforms outrage into clarity, Book >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030757 US $18.95 CAN $25.95 TRADE Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 184 pgs. Pub Date: 11/09/2021 In stock
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|  Bridgeable Shores Edited by Eileen Tabios. Bridgeable Shores: Selected Poems and New (1969-2001) is the first U.S. publication of the work of the revered Filipino-American poet Luis Cabalquinto. This long overdue collection features the compassion, wisdom and well-being gained from the >>more Kaya/Muae ISBN 9781885030344 US $12.95 CAN $18.50 TRADE Paperback, 5.5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs. Pub Date: 10/02/2001 In stock
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 Concrete Poetry Text by Paul Bernard, Gabriele Detterer, Maurizio Nannucci. MAMCO has devoted a semipermanent exhibition space to concrete poetry since 2016, resulting in the acquisition of a significant group of works falling under this label. This includes the purchase of the Steven Leiber collection. >>more MAMCO Geneva ISBN 9781636810423 US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 05/03/2022 In stock
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|  Crevasse By Nicholas Wong. Crevasse, Hong Kong–based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, which won the 2016 Lamda Literary Award, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030207 US $15.95 CAN $22.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 4 b&w. Pub Date: 05/26/2015 In stock
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|  Curl By T.O. Bobe. Translation by Sean Cotter. Mr. Gica is the world’s greatest barber. He holds the world record for sculptural hairstyling and has won three Olympic golds in neck massage. But his specialty is the shave. Mr. Gica’s shop has six >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663429 US $12.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs. Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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 American poet Norman H. Pritchard’s second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University Press. Pritchard’s writing is visually and typographically unconventional. His methodical arrangements of letters and words >>more DABA ISBN 9781734681703 US $24.00 CAN $34.00 TRADE Clth, 5.5 x 8 in. / 64 pgs. Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock
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|  Goodbye Letter By Jeremy Sigler. Edited by Barney Kulok. In his latest collection, Goodbye Letter, New York-based poet Jeremy Sigler (born 1968) deconstructs his very will to write, as he articulates, verbally and graphically, the implied obsolescence of language itself. The book feels less >>more Hunters Point Press ISBN 9780578576916 US $29.95 CAN $41.95 TRADE Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs. Pub Date: 09/29/2020 In stock
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|  I Even Regret Night By Lalbihari Sharma. Edited and translated by Rajiv Mohabir. Introduction by Gaiutra Bahadur. Winner of the Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Prize, 2020
Award-winning Indo-Caribbean poet Rajiv Mohabir (born 1981) brings his own poetic swagger and family history to a groundbreaking translation of Lalbihari Sharma's Holi >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030597 US $16.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 80 pgs / 12 b&w. Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock
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 I, Immendorff By Feridun Zaimoglu. Translated by Tom Cheesman. Turkish poet Feridun Zaimoglu (born 1964) immersed himself in the paintings of Jörg Immendorff (1945–2007) to write the poems gathered in this volume. In his words, "I disappeared and Immendorff came to life. This is >>more Walther König, Köln ISBN 9783960985051 US $25.00 CAN $34.95 FLAT40 Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 216 pgs / 2 color. Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock
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|  Inseparable By Lewis Warsh Inseparable collects poems written between 1995 and 2005 by the New York poet, editor and novelist Lewis Warsh. Strongly identified with New York since the 1960s, when he co-founded Angel Hair magazine with Anne Waldman, >>more Granary Books ISBN 9781887123785 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Paperback, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 212 pgs. Pub Date: 04/01/2008 In stock
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|  American artist Jimmie Durham's (born 1940) third book of poetry, Particle/Word Theory collects 38 poems written between 2014 and 2019, and 13 drawings. These poems, for Durham, express his belief that “art and science are >>more Walther König, Köln/Wiens Verlag/Edition Hans Jörg Mayer ISBN 9783960989264 US $19.95 CAN $27.95 FLAT40 Flexi, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 104 pgs / 1 color / 11 b&w. Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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 Joan Myers & Nathaniel Tarn: The Persephones Poem by Nathaniel Tarn. In The Persephones, American poet Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928) and American photographer Joan Myers (born 1941) offer an elegant, collaborative retelling of Persephone’s abduction into the underworld. Many of Myers’ images were shot at the >>more Damiani ISBN 9788862084987 US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40 Hbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 58 pgs / 30 color. Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  Joe Brainard: I Remember Artwork by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ron Padgett. Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down >>more Granary Books ISBN 9781887123488 US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE Paperback, 4.25 x 7 in. / 192 pgs. Pub Date: 02/02/2001 Out of stock
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|  In Last West, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange’s winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys, Lange photographed migrant laborers, Dust Bowl refugees, tent cities and >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9781633451094 US $12.95 CAN $18.50 TRADE Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 64 pgs / 10 b&w. Pub Date: 02/25/2020 In stock
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 Last Words By Gabriele Tinti. Preface by Derrick de Kerchove. Photographs by Andres Serrano. Last Words is a collection of found poems. Its conceptual basis is dramatic: to recover the lyricism of the final moments. Gabriele Tinti has with this aim composed the last words of ordinary people who >>more Skira ISBN 9788857229874 US $18.95 CAN $24.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 12 color. Pub Date: 04/05/2016 In stock
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|  Magnetic Refrain By Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut. Adopted from Korea at the age of two, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut grew up in New England, a circumstance that inevitably prompted an early fascination with the diaspora that followed the Korean civil war. She observes >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030061 US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 86 pgs. Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock
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|  André Breton described Maldoror as "the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential." Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972125 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Out of stock
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 Mouth By Lisa Chen. Mouth, Lisa Chen's debut collection of poetry, gives voice to things that occur below the level of hearing or just beyond our notice--fragments of translated stories, unanswered bits of conversations, the mute assertiveness of a >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030436 US $13.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Paperback, 5.75 x 7.5 in. / 84 pgs. Pub Date: 06/01/2007 In stock
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|  Mucus in My Pineal Gland is the debut collection of New York–based artist and writer Juliana Huxtable (born 1987). Gathering poems, performance scripts and essays, this startling volume expands Huxtable’s critique of gender, sexuality, politics, whiteness >>more Capricious Publishing ISBN 9780997444629 US $23.95 CAN $31.95 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 185 pgs. Pub Date: 01/01/2019 Out of stock
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|  In Muscle Memory, Washington-based poet Jenny Liou grapples with violence and identity, beginning with the chain-link enclosure of the prizefighter’s cage and radiating outward into the diasporic sweep of Chinese American history. Liou writes with >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030801 US $18.95 CAN $25.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 100 pgs. Pub Date: 10/25/2022 In stock
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 Nite Soil Artwork by Kenward Elmslie. Kenward Elmslie's way with words cuts a singular swath through a polymath variety of forms. This collection of poems and ephemera treats language sometimes as paint to be thrown on canvas, sometimes as a series >>more Granary Books ISBN 9781887123396 US $27.50 CAN $37.50 TRADE Slipcased, 7 x 5 in. / pgs / 41 color. Pub Date: 07/02/2000 In stock
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|  In 1931, with the help of Jacqueline Apollinaire and at the suggestion of Pierre Matisse, a young Swiss publisher named Albert Skira contacted Pablo Picasso and convinced him to illustrate a French translation of Ovid’s >>more Skira Paris ISBN 9788857239491 US $300.00 CAN $400.00 SDNR30 Slip, hbk, 2 vols, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 412 pgs / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to "erase the boundaries between the arts." This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters' writings, introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitters' words. >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972354 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 288 pgs. Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Out of stock
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 Written between 1958 and 1982, Brion Gysin's "permutation poems" begin with short phrases or sentences whose constituent words are exhaustively rearranged over the course of the text. At first, Gysin wrote these poems manually, although >>more DABA ISBN 9781734681772 US $20.00 CAN $27.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs. Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock
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|  Piero Heliczer (1937–93) was one of the most important and ubiquitous protagonists of the underground of the 1960s and ’70s. Born in Italy, Heliczer lived between London, Paris, New York and Amsterdam; a poet, publisher >>more After 8 Books ISBN 9782492650000 US $24.95 CAN $31.00 TRADE Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 52 b&w. Pub Date: 03/22/2022 In stock
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|  Poems by Yvonne Rainer Introduction by Tim Griffin. From her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the America’s greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems, which were >>more Badlands Unlimited ISBN 9781936440108 US $12.00 CAN $17.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 71 pgs / 7 b&w. Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Out of stock
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 Pybrac By Pierre Louÿs. Introduction and translation by Geoffrey Longnecker. Illustrations by Toyen. By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest collection of poetry ever published, and offers a taste of what the Marquis de Sade might have produced if he had ever turned >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663023 US $13.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 10 b&w. Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock
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|  Sweethearts By Emmett Williams. A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Emmett Williams (1925-2007) made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Among them is the book-length concrete poem Sweethearts, >>more Walther König, Köln ISBN 9783865608109 US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 226 pgs. Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  The Amme Talks By Ulf Stolterfoht. Afterword by Peter Dittmer. Translated by Shane Anderson, Megan Ewing. The Amme Talks is a conversation between poet and machine. In 2003, poet Ulf Stolterfoht and a chatbot named Amme met in Berlin. For one week, Stolterfoht interrogated Amme about the nature of authorship and >>more Triple Canopy ISBN 9780997852448 US $12.00 CAN $17.50 FLAT40 Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 192 pgs / 8 color / 23 b&w. Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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 The Book By Stéphane Mallarmé. Introduction and translation by Sylvia Gorelick. The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972422 US $15.95 CAN $22.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs. Pub Date: 09/25/2018 Out of stock
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|  The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems By Pablo Picasso. Edited with introduction by Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris. Afterword by Michel Leiris. Pablo Picasso is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the 20th century. What few in the English-speaking world know is that in 1935, at age 54, an emotional crisis caused Picasso to halt >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972361 US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs. Pub Date: 05/02/2004 In stock
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|  The Central Laboratory By Max Jacob. Introduction and translation by Alexander Dickow. When Max Jacob published The Central Laboratory in 1921, Parisian Dada had just officially come to an end and Surrealism was yet to be born. The poetic scene in Paris was between definitions, and Jacob >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663801 US $22.95 CAN $30.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 360 pgs / 1 b&w. Pub Date: 07/26/2022 In stock
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 The Dice Cup By Max Jacob. Translated with introduction by Ian Seed. Max Jacob’s role in French modernity was essential, and with this second volume of his work from Wakefield Press, it can now be fully and properly assessed. First published in 1917, The Dice Cup stands >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663863 US $19.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 264 pgs. Pub Date: 12/06/2022 In stock
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|  The Massacre of the Innocents By Giambattista Marino. Introduction and translation by Erik Butler. A finely crafted epic and literary monstrosity from the seventeenth-century "poet of the marvelous": the harrowing account, in four bloody cantos, of King Herod and his campaign to murder the male infants of his kingdom >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663085 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 222 pgs / 2 b&w. Pub Date: 05/26/2015 In stock
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|  Originally published by Doubleday and Company in 1970, N.H. Pritchard’s The Matrix was one of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Sadly, the book was >>more Primary Information/Ugly Duckling Presse ISBN 9781734489798 US $20.00 CAN $28.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs. Pub Date: 03/30/2021 Out of stock
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 The Poet Assassinated By Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Matthew Josephson, woodcuts by André Dérain. Apollinaire was Modernism’s first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint. Lying in a hospital bed in 1915, recovering from combat wounds suffered in World War I, Apollinaire assembled >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972293 US $13.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs. Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of stock
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|  The Raven / Le Corbeau / The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé. Translation by Holly Cundiff. Illustrations by Édouard Manet. Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) claimed to have learned English in order to read Poe, an American poet greatly admired by the French Symbolists. This volume reproduces at full size the first-edition bilingual publication of Le Corbeau >>more Lucia|Marquand ISBN 9780999652282 US $60.00 CAN $85.00 SDNR40 Slip, Pbk, 14 x 21.5 in. / 20 pgs / 6 b&w. Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock
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|  Poet, philosopher, speculative architect and transdisciplinary artist, Madeline Gins is well known for her collaborations with her husband, the artist Arakawa, on the experimental architectural project Reversible Destiny, in which they sought to arrest mortality >>more Siglio ISBN 9781938221248 US $28.00 CAN $39.00 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 328 pgs / 184 b&w. Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock
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 The Unbearable Heart By Kimiko Hahn. From Kimiko Hahn, the celebrated poet of Earshot, The Unbearable Heart is a superbly composed and passionate book on grief and mourning. The poems are both formally innovative and openly cathartic, individually and collectively compelling, >>more Kaya/Muae ISBN 9781885030016 US $11.95 CAN $17.50 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs. Pub Date: 01/02/1996 Out of stock
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|  Vanessa Place: Last Words For her ongoing project Last Words, leading Conceptual poet and lawyer Vanessa Place (born 1968) has recorded in her own voice the last statements of all of the inmates executed in Texas as recorded by >>more Dis Voir ISBN 9782914563772 US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color. Pub Date: 09/29/2015 In stock
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|  Watchfiends & Rack Screams By Antonin Artaud. Translated by Clayton Eshleman with Bernard Bador. Clayton Eshleman's translations are the finest and most authentic which have yet been made from Artaud's writing. Artaud's final work is his strongest and most enduring, and this collection has been wisely selected and magnificently >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972187 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs. Pub Date: 01/02/2004 In stock
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 What awaits us is not the future we had hoped for or what we were promised, but the terrible consequences of we've done to ourselves.
Managing to be both a hopeful prayer for change and direct >>more Pioneer Works Press ISBN 9781945711114 US $14.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Hbk, 4.75 x 6 in. / 128 pgs / 12 color. Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock
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