MALDOROR & THE COMPLETE WORKS OF COMTE DE LAUTRÉAMONT

MALDOROR & THE COMPLETE WORKS OF COMTE DE LAUTRÉAMONT Comte de Lautréamont $17.95 $9.95 | paper | 340 pp. Exact Change ISBN: 9781878972125 SPD's LAST COPIES. Fiction. Translated from the French by Alexis Lykiard. Little is known about MALDOROR's pseudonymous author aside from his real name, Isidore Ducasse, his birth place in Uruguay in 1846, and his early death in Paris in 1870. Lautréamont's writings bewildered his contemporaries but the Surrealist modeled their efforts after his lawless black humor and poetic leaps of logic. At the time of its publication, this was the only complete and annotated collection of Lautréamont's writings available in English, in a superior translation.

Bill Griffiths: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS: (1966-80)

HOWARD ZINN 1922-2010

THE WORLD IN TIME AND SPACE: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF INNOVATIVE AMERICAN POETRY IN OUR TIME edited by Edward Foster & Joseph Donahue

THE WORLD IN TIME AND SPACE: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF INNOVATIVE AMERICAN POETRY IN OUR TIME Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, Editors $25.95 | paper | 740 pp. Talisman House ISBN: 9781883689919 Nonfiction. Literary History and Criticism. Poetics. This long-awaited history of contemporary American poetry, Talisman Nos. 23-26, is more than 700 pages long. This special volume surveys major developments in avant-garde American poetry from 1970 to the present. THE WORLD IN TIME AND SPACE includes contributions by major critics and poets including Bruce Andrews, Daniel Barbiero, Christopher Beach, Michael Boughn, Peter Bushyeager, David Clippinger, Michel Delville, Brent Edwards, Steve Evans, Dan Featherston, Thomas Fink, Norman Finkelstein, Alan Golding, Jeanne Heuving, W. Scott Howard, Andrew Joron, Burt Kimmelman, David Landrey, Kathryne V. Lindberg, Stephen-Paul Martin, Stephen Paul Miller, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Alice Notley, Peter O'Leary, Marjorie Perloff, Linda Russo, Standard Schaefer, Julie Schmid, Susan M. Schultz, Leonard Schwartz, Mark Scroggins, Mary Margaret Sloan, Gustaf Sobin, Brian Kim Stefans, Susan Vanderborg, and the editors, Joseph Donahue and Edward Foster. READ CHRIS McCREARY'S REVIEW IN RAIN TAXI HERE ►

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Rumored Islands by Robert Farnsworth

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RUMORED ISLANDS Robert Farnsworth $14 | paper | 88 pp. Harbor Mountain Press Poetry. Robert Farnsworth's first two books were published by Wesleyan University Press. Twenty years later, Harbor Mountain Press brings out Farnsworth's next: fine narrative poems made of patina and salt, family memory and youthful outlook, reality and regret.  LINK "More than 20 years after his last book, Farnsworth (Honest Water) returns with poems of wonder and shame, loneliness and 'the strange, sun-spun fabric of the world.' In carefully sculpted lines, alternately lyrical and narrative, cultured and stripped down, he offers poems that arrive unannounced and track the unexpected turns life takes, the way an unanticipated moment can become part of a story we were meant to hear. He captures the long sigh of a stoplight, thoughts from Westminster Bridge, finding someone drowned staring up from the bottom of a pond, and the complicated distances and intimacies of family life—fathers and sons, husbands and wive—with grace and muscular music. Farnsworth knows his way around a stanza and is capable of lines that both surprise and seem inevitable, whether he's 'full of the melancholy/ pleasure of being far away from home' or stating that 'The past should always be/ this allusive gift.' Near the end of the book comes 'At Sea,' a tender, restrained and stunning poem in which, four years after his father's death, Farnsworth begins to find him. Rather than ask forgiveness—presumably for the many unnamed separations between a father and a son—the writer acknowledges, 'I recognize the things I know that you'd have loved.'" —Publishers Weekly, starred review