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A Few Strange New Hybridities in Literature

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Daniel

Of late, my rather strange and serpentine reading habits have yielded up examples of what might be called literary hybridities, where genres and styles work to subsume or coalesce. Of course, such genre bending is not even remotely new but … Continue reading →

Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews | Tagged Absurdism, Abuse, Angela Carter, Aqueous Books, Art, avant garde, Basil King, Beloved, Bhanu Kapil, Black Mountain, Blasphemy, Book Review, Borges, Carolyn Zaikowski, City Lights, City Lights Press, Colonialism, Daniel Staniforth, Dzanc Books, Eco Poetry, ekphrasis, Elizabeth Robinson, Escapist, faery, Fantasy, fiction, Flash Fiction, Genre, George Gissing, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Graphic novels, Green Man, Hieroglyphs, Historical novel, History, Hoffman, Hybrid fiction, hybrid literature, Hybrid poetry, iain sinclair, Imagination, Jack Collom, Jonathan Carroll, Kafka, Kenneth Patchen, Klee, Learning to Draw, Leaves of Grass, Literature, Marsh Hawk Press, Martin Anderson, Mayflies, Monkey Puzzle, Monkey Puzzle Press, mythology, Nancy Stohlman, Native American, Nature Poetry, novel, Nymph, Omnidawn, Paintings, Pastorale, poetry, Pure Slush Books, Red Fox, River, Romantic, Ros Barber, Sara Veglahn, Saxon Churches, Scandinavian, Selah Saterstrom, Shakespeare, Shearsman Books, Short Stories, Skylight Press, small press, Surrealism, Thames, Toni Morrison, Underwater, Victorian Novel, Vixen, Voyeurism, Walt Whitman, Wilkie Collins, Women in White | Leave a comment

The Cult of Seizure by Rikki Ducornet

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Daniel

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 | 1 Comment

Rikki Ducornet on Skylight Press

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Daniel

“My first novel, The Stain, was set into motion by a powerful dream. That dream unleashed enough energy to fuel four novels—and this to my astonishment. I was an artist, after all, not a writer. Entering Fire, Phosphor in Dreamland, … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads | Tagged Absurdism, alchemy, Alfred Jarry, American fiction, American novel, Andre Breton, Art, avant garde, Avant garde literature, Bard College, book illustration, Brian Evenson, de sade, Dreams, Entering Fire, European fiction, European novel, experimental fiction, fiction, Fine Art, Garcia Marquez, Gaston Bachelard, Gazelle, gnosticism, graphic illustration, irresistible voice, Italo Calvino, Jeff Vandermeer, Joanna Scott, Jorge Luis Borges, Kafka, Language poetry, Leeuwenhoek, Lewis Carroll, Literature, Magic Realism, Mandrake, Metafiction, Netsuke, novel, poetry, postmodernism, qabala, Rikki Ducornet, Robert Coover, speaking in tongues, Surrealism, The Butcher's Tales, The Fan Maker's Inquisition, The Fountains of Neptune, The Jade Cabinet, The Stain, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, writing | 1 Comment

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A Few Strange New Hybridities in Literature

The Cult of Seizure by Rikki Ducornet

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