Poems to Read on a Streetcar

Oliverio Girondo

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• Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, Girondo is one of the pioneers of Latin American literature. This selection offers a glimpse of a pre... Lees meer

The Helens of Troy, New York

Bernadette Mayer

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• Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", All the Helens of Troy is Bernadette Mayers's profile of all of the Helens living in Troy, New York, don... Lees meer

A Musical Hell

Alejandra Pizarnik

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• "An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes César Aira. Her last collection to be published before her suicide in... Lees meer

Pneumatic Antiphonal

Sylvia Legris

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• Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by ... Lees meer

Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker

Susan Howe

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• Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe's masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are ... Lees meer

Sea, Land, Shadow

Kazuko Shiraishi

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• the people, the boats completely gone with the tsunami / tonight you would not be able to sleep --from Sea, Land, Shadow Sea, Land, Shadow , the fourt... Lees meer

Dirty Poem

Ferreira Gullar

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• Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life... Lees meer

Blue Pearl

Lesley Harrison

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• What does northness sound like? The music of Iceland, Greenland, the Svalbard archipelago. Songs of birds and ice and wind. In Lesley Harrison's Blue ... Lees meer

Blasts Cries Laughter

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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• Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blasts contains blasts, blessings, and curses in the vortex of today, taking its cues from the original little magazine, Blast... Lees meer

Vale Ave

Hilda Doolittle

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• Vale Ave -- Latin for "Farewell, Hail" -- is a hymn to Eros that unfolds as a gorgeous palimpsest of eternal recurrence and reincarnation, charting th... Lees meer

The Beautiful Contradictions

Nathaniel Tarn

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• The Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropology that pushes the lyric to its upper limit. A vast ecopo... Lees meer

Eiko and Koma

Forrest Gander

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• For over thirty years, Eiko & Koma, the Japanese-born choreographers and dancers, have created an influential theatre of movement out of stillness, sh... Lees meer

Fifteen Iraqi Poets

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• Fifteen Iraqi Poets compiles fifteen poems, each written by a different, prominent twentieth-century Iraqi poet. Selected, with commentary, by award-w... Lees meer

Hospital Series

Amelia Rosselli

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• Hospital Series , a bruisingly intimate colloquy with an elusive lover, is Italian poet Amelia Rosselli's virtuoso, subversive, neo-Petrarchan sequenc... Lees meer

21 Poems

George Oppen

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• The Objectivist Press published George Oppen's first book Discrete Series, a collection of thirty-one short poems with a preface by Ezra Pound, in 193... Lees meer

Across the Vapour Gulf

Will Alexander

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• In Will Alexander's work, "Every poem reads like a subversive, alchemical wonder. It is tempting to label Alexander a surrealist or experimentalist, b... Lees meer