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William Allen, Sevastopol: On Photographs of War. Poetic responses to photographs taken in times of war. The reader looks at the photo on the left page and measures the author's response on the right, meanwhile living through trying moments of history. Order
Mario Azzopardi, Naked As Water, translated from the Maltese by Grazio Falzon. Collected poems of an avant-garde author tormented by the search for love, self and God. A phantasmagoria of nocturnal visions, mythic quest and sexual obsession. Order
Alfredo De Palchi, Addictive Aversions, translated from the Italian by Sonia Raiziss & others. Erotic and anti-erotic poems by a poet "not for the fainthearted" (Library Journal). Order
Alfredo De Palchi, Anonymous Constellation, translated from the Italian by Sonia Raiziss. A collection of stark and sometimes brutal poems reflecting on the universality of violence, by the New York Italian poet. Order
Alfredo De Palchi, The Scorpion's Dark Dance, translated from the Italian by Sonia Raiziss. A bilingual edition of poems written by a young man in an Italian prison after World War II. Order
Luigi Fontanella, Angels of Youth, translated from the Italian by Carol Lettieri & Irena Marchegiani Jones. A cycle of poems reaching for the ineffable wisps of thoughts, memories and impressions that make up one's private world. Especially moving are "Stanzas for Emma," dedicated to the poet's far-distant daughter. Order
Oliverio Girondo, Scarecrow & Other Anomalies, translated from the Spanish by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert. A bilingual edition of outrageous and hilarious fantasmagorías by an Argentine genius (or madman), including "Invitation to Vomit," "It's All Drool" and "Lunarlude." First appearance in English. Order
Vicente Huidobro, The Poet Is a Little God, translated from the Spanish by Jorge García-Gómez. A bilingual edition of El espejo de agua, Poemas arcticos and Ecuatorial by the Chilean poet who strove to compete with nature itself in creative imagery. Also a manifesto and maxims. Order
Antonio Porta, Kisses, Dreams & Other Infidelities, translated from the Italian with an Afterword by Anthony Molino. Two books combined: Kisses from Another Dream, a series of uninhibited and sometimes shocking poetic commentaries; and Dreams & Other Infidelities, a collection of dreamlike, surrealistic stories. Winner of a Gravida Award for Poetry. Available through Xenos Books distribution affiliate. Order
Lutz Rathenow, The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories, translated from the German by Boria Sax & Imogen von Tannenberg. A bilingual edition of satires, skits and grotesqueries conveying the maddening humdrumness of the ultimate police state as portrayed in the 2007 Academy Award-winner (Best Foreign Film), "The Lives of Others." Order
John Taylor, The Apocalypse Tapestries. Sixty-six poems, prose poems and meditations seeking enlightenment, some inspired by 14th-century French tapestries portraying St. John writing the Book of Revelation. Order
Jens Bjørneboe, Amputation: Texts for an Extraordinary Spectacle, translated from the Norwegian by Solrun Hoaas & Esther Greenleaf Mürer. First publication in English of both versions of the Norwegian iconoclast's shocking play that he described as "directed against those forms of society that do not allow room for people who think differently from those in power." Order
Gary Kern, The Mad Kokoschka: A Play in Three Acts. In 1919 the Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka introduced friends to his new model and companion, The Silent Woman: a lifesize doll in the image of Alma Mahler, widow of the great composer. Even before this scandal, the newspapers in Germany were calling him "der tolle Kokoschka" — the mad Kokoschka. Available through Xenos Books. Order
Lutz Rathenow, The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories, translated from the German by Boria Sax & Imogen von Tannenberg. A bilingual edition of satires, skits and grotesqueries conveying the maddening humdrumness of the ultimate police state as portrayed in the 2007 Academy Award-winner (Best Foreign Film), "The Lives of Others." Order
Manlio Santanelli, Emergency Exit, translated from the Italian by Anthony Molino with Jane House. A ferocious and funny play set in an earthquake zone. "Extraordinary, intended for audiences who hunger for the rare and the beautiful" (Eugene Ioneseco). Order
Antonio Di Benedetto, Animal World, translated from the Spanish by H. E. Francis. A bilingual edition of Mundo animal, a collection of short stories with hallucinatory animal transformations by an internationally acknowledged Argentine master. Out of print.
Emil Draitser, The Supervisor of the Sea. The longer and more serious stories of an acclaimed author that move from Russia to America to the fantastic beyond. Includes the celebrated "Wedding in Brighton Beach" and "Faithful Masha." Order
Hugh Fox, The Last Summer. A novel about a professor dying of cancer and trying to pack his erudition into his son, who prefers video games and Coca-Cola, by the acclaimed author of Leviathan and Shaman. Order
Oliverio Girondo, Scarecrow & Other Anomalies, translated from the Spanish by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert. A bilingual edition of outrageous and hilarious fantasmagorías by an Argentine genius (or madman), including "Invitation to Vomit," "It's All Drool" and "Lunarlude." First appearance in English. Order
Edvard Hoem, Ave Eva: A Norwegian Tragedy, translated from the Nynorsk (New Norwegian) by Frankie Belle Shackelford. A brooding novel from the North, part romance, part murder mystery, part social commentary, mixed into a great spiritual quest. Order
Jennifer Lawler, Then Will Come Night and Darkness. A novel about the personal odyssey of Rebecca Hanover, ex-wife, ex-professor of Old English and ex-con, who is driven by a consuming need to be united with her lost daughter. Attending to words echoing from ancient sagas, she sets out toward the sea on the other side of the country. Order
Imre Oravecz, When You Became She, translated from the Hungarian by Bruce Berlind. Nearly a hundred prose poems, many one sentence long, delineating a love affair with extraordinary variety, intensity and subtlety. Order
Giancarlo Pastore, Jellyfish, translated from the Italian by Jamie Richards. A literary voyage that takes the reader to the farthest reaches of alienation and despair, Jellyfish (original title: Meduse) was hailed as a classic by major critics in Italy upon its appearance in 2003. Order
Antonio Porta, Kisses, Dreams & Other Infidelities, translated from the Italian with an Afterword by Anthony Molino. Two books combined: Kisses from Another Dream, a series of uninhibited and sometimes shocking poetic commentaries; and Dreams & Other Infidelities, a collection of dreamlike, surrealistic stories. Winner of a Gravida Award for Poetry. Available through Xenos Books distribution affiliate, SPD. Order
Lutz Rathenow, The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories, translated from the German by Boria Sax & Imogen von Tannenberg. A bilingual edition of satires, skits and grotesqueries conveying the maddening humdrumness of the ultimate police state as portrayed in the 2007 Academy Award-winner (Best Foreign Film), "The Lives of Others." Order
Ellen Tifft, Moon, Moon, Tell Me True. A novel about American carnival life and the hopes and disappointments of lower-income people just after WWII, written with unusual directness, honesty and charm by a lifetime resident of the Finger Lakes region of New York. Order
Ken Wilkerson, Blue Ride. Fifteen stories of raw and desperate characters in the outback towns of Southern California by an American writer who wanders the desert wastes. Order
Ken Wilkerson, Midnight Highway. A boisterous account of a travelling vampire magic show wending its way through the remote reaches of the American Southwest. Order
Jean-Pierre Barricelli, Fireplaces of Civilization: Literary Portraits of Florence, Paris, Sicily, Seville and Granada. Imaginative essays evoking great cities in their art, literature and daily life, written by a distinguished scholar, linguist and musician. Order
Darnetta Bell & Kevin Bongiorni (eds.), Cemeteries & Spaces of Death. Essays on the grim subject – Aztec sacrifices, danse macabre, Frankenstein, Hemingway, the cult of Jim Morrison, etc.– by a variety of authors. Order
Gary Kern, Letters from Dwight. A series of actual letters, sent over a period of seven years, reporting the experiences of an ex-professor from the East Coast living in a slum in Southern California, renting rooms to odd characters and getting into strange situations. Order
Gary Kern, Misfortune. A memoir about different kinds of hard luck. "Quads" presents the world of quadriplegics, "Old Woman" details the plight of the old and forgotten, "Polyglottos" concerns a Russian dissident and the difficulties of translating him. Order
Walter G. Krivitsky, MI5 Debriefing and Other Documents on Soviet Intelligence. Seven documents generated by the master spy Walter G. Krivitsky which provide a succinct exposition of the totalitarian system of control, one that may have application to intelligence structures in existence today. Edited and translated from Russian by Gary Kern. Order
Rush
Rankin, In Theory. Short
and beautifully crafted literary and philosophical meditations which, when
taken together, constitute a critique of post-modernism and nihilism, and
affirm a commonsense aesthetic.
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Lutz Rathenow, The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories, translated from the German by Boria Sax & Imogen von Tannenberg. A bilingual edition of satires, skits and grotesqueries conveying the maddening humdrumness of the ultimate police state. Contains a public address by the author and a long afterword by Boria Sax on activism and dissidence in Communist East Germany. Order
John Taylor, The Apocalypse Tapestries. Sixty-six poems, prose poems and meditations seeking enlightenment, some based on the author's travels in life through America and Europe. Order
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