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Under That Silky Roof
The poems of this new collection are concerned with the interplay of domestic life — its companionship, its fecundity, its losses — and...
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The Will To Sickness
Gerhard Roth burst on the German-speaking scene in the early 1970s with three fiercely experimental novels, among them our present DER WILLE ZUR...
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Ring Rang Wrong
Borrowed voices, invented voices, and a very personal but unplaceable voice all wind their way through these mock-philosophical meditations on nature...
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Five on Fiction
From her early stories on, Kauffman has redefined terms — of literature and of human nature. Here, short paragraphs cut across genres to assemble a...
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Pegasus Descending
Out of print for thirty years, this hilarious and disgusting anthology is again available, complete and unexpurgated. The editors, hoping always for...
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Close Quote
While questioning the possibility of communication (“Who’s able to decipher the thoughts that link two separate creatures?”) Borel forces...
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The Trip to Bordeaux
Four adults, a child and a cat travel from Germany to Bordeaux. Harig tells their adventures in humorous permutations, word-games, Baroquisms,...
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Our Fortunes
The poems in this book send intense probes into the depth of emotion, and at the same time play out an elliptical music of perceptions. Kalendek...
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The Vox Populi Street Stories
A satirical novel, narrated by Gottlieb Otto Liebgott, a retired German doctor who lives in Cincinnati. It centers on the life and career of...
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Turneresque
The title plays off the style of J. M. W. Turner’s paintings and media mogul Ted Turner’s revival of B-cinema as two competing versions of the...
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Ceci n'est pas Keith / Ceci n'est pas Rosmarie
These parallel reports from two writers long together (and occasionally collaborating) show characteristic differences, both of background and of...
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The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell)
Robert Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of. Rooms...
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Embargoed Voice
Graffi's poems place themselves on the edge between a highly pliant, "thick" language and absence of voice. Together, these two faces...
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Mental Ground
All Esther Tellermann's poetry - from the first line of her first book: "time had the slowness of not-yet-asleep" - is an ongoing...
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On Wooden Tablets: Apronenia Avitia
An introductory biography places our heroine in Rome, in the turbulent 4th century, when the Roman Empire cumbles, invaded by the...
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Many Glove Compartments
Unlike Adam ("the old Stalin of language"), Pastior is not out to name animals or anything else. "Talking about things is not...
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One Score More
To celebrate Burning Deck’s 40th anniversary, this anthology presents poetry and prose published in the years 1981-2001. It is a...
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Hourglass Transcripts
Hourglass Transcripts asks, What is the legible? How can the uncountable find the page outside of measurable time? To approach the preverbal, the...
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Crosscut Universe
Norma Cole has combed through books, little magazines, and correspondence to gather an exciting body of writing by our French contemporaries. There...
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A Test of Solitude
Emmanuel Hocquard was born in 1940. Several of his volumes have been translated into English, most recently Theory of Tables (trans. Michael Palmer,...
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Reft and Light
Ernst Jandl's poems are so engrained in the German language that they are impossible to translate. This volume present an unusual experiment: for...
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