 Where does your body end and the world begin? How do you locate the limit between your self and others? A Rock, A River, A Street follows a young, Black woman who lives at the >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781736534663
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7.25 in. / 132 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/18/2022 Out of stock
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|  Anicet or the Panorama
By Louis Aragon. Introduction and translation by Antony Melville. This novel, much of it written amidst the horror of the trenches when Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a medical orderly during the First World War, demonstrates the chasm that separates the works of the artists >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565691
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 208 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/26/2016 In stock
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|  Antilogy
By Alex Hamburger. Foreword by Ricardo Basbaum. Drawing from notions of “bad poetry” as the critical undoing of normative taste, Antilogy brings together works by the Brazilian artist and poet Alex Hamburger. Central to Hamburger’s practice and engagement with poetry is a >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780997874488
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 137 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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 American author Ben Lerner and German filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge come from two different generations but share a single passion: an interest in the long-term effects of things. A line from Lerner’s poem "The >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052542
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Clth, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 346 pgs / 102 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock
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|  Black–White–Red
By Mynona. Introduction and translation by W.C. Bamberger. First published in German in 1916, Black–White–Red collects six bizarre tales by the “laughing philosopher” Salomo Friedlaender, who wrote his literary work under the pseudonym Mynona (the reversed German word for “anonymous”). In this collection, >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663849
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 64 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/30/2022 In stock
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|  Originally published in 1994, Camino Road is the debut novel of acclaimed New York–based artist and writer Renée Green (born 1959). Set between the late 1970s and early 1980s, and combining the genres of road >>more
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ISBN 9781734489781
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 In stock
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 A key figure—and one of the few women—in the Italian neo-avanguardia of the 1960s and 1970s, Giovanna Sandri (1923–2002) was renowned for the fearless experimentation of her visual poetry, which since 1965 has been featured >>more
DABA
ISBN 9781734681789
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / 83 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/29/2023 In stock
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|  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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Pbk, 8 x 6 in. / 184 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Out of stock
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|  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
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972071
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/15/1996 In stock
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 Felix Salut: Shut Up, I Am Counting!
How on earth did Tara and Ohio end up in this strange world, consisting mainly of signs, symbols and fragments? They look for the sign X, which is supposed to lead them to the EXIT. >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783944669670
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/01/2015 In stock
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|  Great Liberty
By Julien Gracq. Introduction and translation by George MacLennan. In 1941, Julien Gracq, newly released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, wrote a series of prose poems that would come to represent the only properly Surrealist writings in his oeuvre. Surrealism provided Gracq with a >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663894
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 168 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/27/2023 In stock
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|  Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul
Text by Jordan Amirkhani, Andrea Andersson, Kristina Kay Robinson, Roshanak Kheshti. Interview by Courtney J. Martin. Afterword by Cameron Shaw. Convening polyphonous voices from past and present, I Will Keep My Soul is an orchestral layering of photography, historical documents, poetry and interviews, rooted in the history, geography and community of New Orleans. In this >>more
Siglio/Rivers Institute/CAAM
ISBN 9781938221330
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Clth, 10.75 x 7.75 in. / 188 pgs / 92 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/18/2023 In stock
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 How I Wrote Certain of My Books
By Raymond Roussel. Edited with text by Trevor Winkfield. Introduction by John Ashbery. Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the 20th 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 In stock
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|  Artist and writer Karen Green's second book originated in a search for a woman who had vanished: her Aunt Constance whom Green knew only from a few family photos and keepsakes. In her absence, Green >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221194
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Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 168 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 In stock
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|  Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning
By Robert Desnos. Introduction and translation by Terry Hale. Mystery, the marvelous, the city of Paris transmuted by love, and Sanglot the Corsair’s pursuit of the siren Louise Lame: these are the essential ingredients of Liberty or Love!, a masterpiece of early Surrealism written >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565455
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 176 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock
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 Lydia's Funeral Video
By Sam Chanse. Illustrations by Matt Huynh. Lydia's Funeral Video is a one-woman play written and performed by Sam Chanse, a playwright and performer based in New York and California. In this apocalyptic satire, devout bank clerk Lydia Clark-Lin has 28 days >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030085
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Pbk, 7 x 8 in. / 112 pgs / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 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, 6.5 x 7.5 in. / 184 pgs / 54 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 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 family history, reportage >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030054
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.25 in. / 168 pgs / 76 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 In stock
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 Munchausen and Clarissa
By Paul Scheerbart. Introduction and translation by Christina Svendsen. It is 1905 and a raging stupidity is holding sway over Europe. As an 18-year-old Clarissa and her family take refuge on the icy shores of Lake Wannsee, the legendary Baron Munchausen makes an unexpected >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663511
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 152 pgs / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/16/2021 In stock
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|  Newspaper
Edited by Steve Lawrence, Peter Hujar, Andrew Ullrick. Published by Steve Lawrence and edited alongside Peter Hujar and Andrew Ullrick, Newspaper was issued in New York City between 1968 and 1971. A wordless, picture-only periodical that replicated the scale of the New York >>more
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ISBN 9781737797944
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Pbk, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 416 pgs / 408 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/11/2023 In stock
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|  On the Origin of Species and Other Stories
By Bo-Young Kim. Edited with afterword by Sunyoung Park. Translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Joungmin Lee Comfort. Longlisted for National Book Award in Translated Literature, 2021
Straddling science fiction, fantasy and myth, the writings of award-winning author Bo-Young Kim have garnered a cult following in South Korea, where she is widely acknowledged as >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030719
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 224 pgs / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/25/2021 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 in >>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 In stock
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|  SIREN (Some Poetics)
Edited by Quinn Latimer and Sarah Demeuse. Text by Don Mee Choi, Ruth Estévez, Quinn Latimer, Bernadette Mayer, Senga Nengudi, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, Ser Serpas, et al. Through work by artists and poets of various generations and geographies, as well as additional thinkers and artistic contributors, SIREN considers the ways in which language is increasingly employed by artists in works that trouble >>more
Dancing Foxes Press/Amant
ISBN 9781954947054
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Pbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 208 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 06/04/2024 In stock
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|  Spells
By Michel de Ghelderode. Introduction and translation by George MacLennan. Hitherto unavailable in English, Spells, by the Belgian dramatist Michel de Ghelderode, ranks among the 20th century’s most noteworthy collections of fantastic tales. Like Ghelderode’s plays, the stories are marked by a powerful imagination and >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663207
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 280 pgs / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/24/2017 In stock
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 The Arthritic Grasshopper: Collected Stories, 1934-1944
By Gisèle Prassinos. Introduction and translation by Bonnie Ruberg, Henry Vale. Illustrations by Allan Kausch. First discovered, celebrated and published by the Surrealists at the age of 14 (they declared her the “new Alice”), Gisèle Prassinos quickly found herself established in the literary world as a fount of automatic tales >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663221
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/25/2017 In stock
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|  The Beat Scene
Edited by Tony Nourmand, Michael Shulman. Essay by Jack Kerouac. This magnificent volume features a remarkable collection of largely unseen photographs of the Beat Generation by renowned Magnum photographer Burt Glinn. This amazing, untouched treasure trove of images was discovered when Reel Art Press was >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526266
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color / 70 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/24/2018 In stock
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|  The City of Unspeakable Fear
By Jean Ray. Afterword and translation by Scott Nicolay. Published in occupied Belgium in 1943 a few months after his celebrated novel Malpertuis, The City of Unspeakable Fear remains one of Jean Ray’s most curious works. Haunting an ambiguous interzone between detective novel, horror >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663900
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/04/2023 In stock
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 The Emperor of China, The Mute Canary & The Executioner of Peru
By Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. Introduction and translation by Christopher Butterfield. This volume collects three savage plays from the man André Breton designated as one of the only "true Dadas" (alongside Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia): The Emperor of China (1916), The Mute Canary (1920) and >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663054
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 264 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2015 In stock
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|  Upon his death, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) left hundreds of notes on an unrealized great work he called The Book. Housed in a clear Plexiglas box, this card-deck conception of his project draws from that material, >>more
Lucia|Marquand
ISBN 9781646570249
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Boxed, 192 cards, 20-page booklet.
Pub Date: 07/12/2022 In stock
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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 Buster Keaton >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115532
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 201 pgs / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 In stock
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 The Punishments of Hell
By Robert Desnos. Translated by Natasha Lehrer. Introduction by Marie-Claire Dumas. Its protagonists are swept into violent journeys through Paris by train and steamship; fabulous events consume their everyday lives; oracles spout nonsense or wisdom. All of Desnos’ friends in the Paris Dada movement—André Breton, Louis >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9780993148736
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Pbk, 5.75 x 6.75 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/24/2017 Out of stock
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|  The Sacred Conspiracy
By Georges Bataille. Edited with introduction by Alastair Brotchie, Marina Galletti. Text by Roger Caillois, Pierre Klossowski, Michel Leiris, et al. Illustrations by André Masson. Translation by John Harman, Natasha Lehrer. This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which the influential philosopher, cultural theorist and occasional pornographer Georges Bataille (1897–1962), having spent the early 1930s in >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565950
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 480 pgs / 95 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 In stock
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|  The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets
By Paul Scheerbart. Introduction and translation by W.C. Bamberger. The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. The Stairway to the Sun contains >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663214
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock
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 The Thief of Talant
By Pierre Reverdy. Introduction and translation by Ian Seed. Challenged by his friend, poet and art critic Max Jacob, to write a novel, Pierre Reverdy produced this fragmented, beautiful assemblage of loneliness, paranoia and depersonalization drawn from his own experience of Paris in the >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663191
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
By Philippe Soupault. Introduction and translation by Justin Vicari. Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter with Lautréamont’s Maldoror, Philippe Soupault’s novella The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle preceded the author’s involvement with Parisian Dada >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663832
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/21/2023 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
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563727
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 250 pgs / color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 In stock
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 In her five-decade career as a conceptual artist, filmmaker, poet, performance artist, photographer and more, Yoko Ono (born 1933) has at once defied and defined the relationship between art and the masses. Live in the >>more
Bakhall
ISBN 9789177424802
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Pbk, 5.5 x 6 in. / 240 pgs / 8 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 Out of stock
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