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Tag Archives: avant garde
Joseph Noble on Skylight Press
The Bay Area has always been a hot-bed for experimental poetry, from the Beats and the famous Six Gallery reading to Ferlinghetti’s City Lights enclave to the San Francisco Renaissance that yielded such poetic powers as Rexroth, Duncan, Spicer and … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, Poetry
Tagged ambient, American literature, American Poetry, Andrew Joron, avant garde, Bay Area, Bay Area Poetry Scene, books., Brian Lucas, City Lights Bookstore, classical music, Cloud Shepherd, Drone, Experimental Music, Experimental poetry, jack Spicer, Joseph Noble, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Laynie Brown, Literature, music, poetry, Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, San Francisco, San Francisco Renaissance, Spoken Word, US Poetry, Will Alexander
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Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander
In the contemporary American poetry scene Will Alexander stands alone as a unique voice, regularly penning what fellow poet Brian Lucas recently described to me as “oracular, vatic, cosmically penetrating poetry.” Perhaps the most obvious categorisation is to place him … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Aime Cesaire, Albania, American Poetry, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, Asia, avant garde, Avant Garde Poetry, Bob Kaufman, Brian Lucas, Channelling, contemporary american poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Cosmology, Diary as Sin, Dictatorship, Dylan Thomas, Eliot Weinburger, enver hoxha, Enver Hxha, Experimental poetry, Haiti, Jonathan Skinner, Kaleidoscopic Omniscience, Language poetry, Literature, Los Angeles, Mark Scroggins, Octavio Paz, Philip Lamantia, poetry, Rimbaud, Surreal Poetry, Surrealism, Symbolism, Symbolist poetry, Tibet, Will Alexander, writing
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Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets by Iain Sinclair
Standing there, on a walk along the whole chain of Hawksmoor churches, we notice five minor obelisks in the fenced area beyond Blake’s burial slab. The Old Street obelisk is aligned beyond the boundary wall: the point of force is discovered. We also come … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Alan Moore, Albion Village Press, Angela Carter, anthologies, Architecture, Arthur Machen, avant garde, BBC, Bookdealers, British Avant Garde, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, Cardif, Chaos magic, Charles Baudelaire, churches in london, Conductors of Chaos, Dining on Stones, documentary, Downriver, Earth Mysteries, Edge of Orison, esoteric, Euclidian, filmmaker, Flaneur, Geography, gnosticism, Gothic, Guy Debord, Hackney, Hawksmoor, hawksmoor churches, History, iain sinclair, innermost sanctuary, J.G. Ballard, Landor's Tower, Lettrists, Ley Lines, Lights out for the Territory, Literature, London, London Film School, London Orbital, London Psychogeographical Association, Louis Aragon, Lud Heat, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Moorcock, nomad, Occult, Peter Akroyd, Psychogeography, ratcliffe highway, River Thames, Robert Graves, Shamanism, Sigil magic, Situationists, Suicide Bridge, Surrealism, The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, Thomas De Quincey, Underground, Walking tours, Walter Benjamin, white chappell, WIll Self, William Blake, writing
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Iain Sinclair on Skylight Press
Iain Sinclair describes himself as a “British writer, documentarist, film maker, poet, flâneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist.” He was born in Cardiff in 1943 but has lived much of his life in Hackney, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Alan Moore, Albion Village Press, Angela Carter, anthologies, Architecture, Arthur Machen, avant garde, BBC, Bookdealers, British Avant Garde, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, Cardif, Chaos magic, Charles Baudelaire, Conductors of Chaos, Dining on Stones, documentary, Downriver, Earth Mysteries, Edge of Orison, esoteric, Euclidian, filmmaker, Flaneur, Geography, gnosticism, Gothic, Guy Debord, Hackney, Hawksmoor, History, iain sinclair, J.G. Ballard, Landor's Tower, Lettrists, Ley Lines, Lights out for the Territory, London, London Film School, London Orbital, London Psychogeographical Association, Louis Aragon, Lud Heat, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Moorcock, nomad, Occult, Peter Akroyd, Psychogeography, River Thames, Robert Graves, Shamanism, Sigil magic, Situationists, Suicide Bridge, Surrealism, The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, Thomas De Quincey, Underground, Walking tours, Walter Benjamin, white chappell, WIll Self, William Blake
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The Cult of Seizure by Rikki Ducornet
The lunatic algebra of Love. The frenzied orbits of Mood. The malarial temperatures of Wound. Symbols of the Cult of Seizure: This flesh, this amulet incised. This hot spoor of predators. This zodiac savaged in the sky. Anyone who has … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Absurdism, alchemy, American fiction, American novel, Andre Breton, Angela Carter, archetypal world, Art, Artaud, avant garde, Avant garde literature, Bestiary, de sade, deep zoo, dream logic, Dreams, Erzsebet Bathory, experimental fiction, fiction, Gaston Bachelard, Gertrude Stein, gnosticism, Helene Cixous, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Jorge Luis Borges, Language poetry, Lautreamont, Lewis Carroll, Literature, Magic, Magic Realism, novel, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, poetry, Rikki Ducornet, silling, small press, Surrealism, Sylvia Plath, symbolism. Porcupine's Quill, The Cult of Seizure, The Fan Maker's Inquisition, The Fountains of Neptune, William Blake, Wordsworth, writing, Zotl
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Interview with Dee Sunshine
“I think you are right to call it a demon. It is very similar to being possessed by a malevolent entity. When I was younger I was consumed by my desire to be a writer and artist, and, I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract Expressionism, art website, artwork, author interview, avant garde, British Literature, British poetry, Dee Sunshine, drowning man, Experimental Art, experimental literature, Literature, poetry, Scottish art, Scottish Literature, Scottish poetry, spiritual awakening, spiritualism, Surrealism, Visions of the Drowning Man, writing
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Still Booming: The Revolutionary Enclave of South and Central American Literature
With American and British literature intent on creating black-holes of postmodernity and worm-holes to the neo-neo perhaps the most sturdy literary platform of that last few decades has been the ‘boom latinoamericano.’ Spurred on by its own vangardia to challenge … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, Reviews
Tagged Alejo Carpentier, Argentina, avant garde, Beckett, Bolivia, books., Boom, Carlos Fuentes, Central America, Cuba, experimental literature, fiction, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Joyce, Julio Cortazar, Latin American Boom, Latin American Literature, latin american writers, Literature, Mann, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mexico, Modernism, novel, orphan generation, poetry, Postmodernism. Magic Realism, Proust, South American, south american continent, South American Literature, Spanish Literature, vangardia
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The Future of Antithologies and the Joris Example
With poetry anthologies always determined by geography, genre, genus, gender, or group dynamics, it’s a joy to come across one that presents an odd assemblage of writers and unseen connections. In 4 X 1 Pierre Joris, a Luxembourgian now residing … Continue reading
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Tagged 4 X 1, anthologies, avant garde, dada, dadaism, Habib Tengour, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Literature, Modernism, Pierre Joris, poetry, rainer maria rilke, Rilke, Surrealism, translated works, translation, Tristan Tzara, writing
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