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Pierre Joris on Skylight Press
Born in 1946 in Strasbourg, France, raised in Luxembourg, Pierre Joris has moved between the US, Europe & North Africa for 50 years, publishing close to 50 books of poetry & essays, translations & anthologies. In 1992 he returned to … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, Poetry
Tagged 20th Century, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Alice Notley, Allen Fisher, American literature, American Poetry, anthologies, Anthology, Arab, Arab Poetry, avant garde, Black Widow Press, Carrie Noland, Charles Bernstein, Charles University, Chax Press, Christine Hume, Clayton Eshleman, Diwan Iffrikya, Ellen Sinopoli, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Essay, experimental literature, Farrar, France, French, Giroux, Habib Tengour, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Jennifer Moxley, Jerome Rothenberg, Joel Chadabe, Luxembourg, Mansur al-Hallaj, Marjorie Perloff, Maurice Blanchot, Mohamed Bennis, New York, Nicole Brossard, Nicole Peyrafitte, Nomadic, Pablo Picasso, Paul Celan, performance, Performance art, performance artist, Peter Cockelbergh, Pierre Joris, poetics, poetry, postmodern, postmodernism, Regina Keil-Sagawe, Rilke, SALT Publishers, Skylight Press, Staruss, State University of New York, SUNY, translation, Tristan Tzara, Xavier Chabot
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The Groundlings of Divine Will
Originally posted on Tears in the Fence:
Daniel Staniforth’s The Groundlings of Divine Will (Skylight Press 2013) http://www.skylightpress.co.uk sees Shakespeare’s first audience, ‘the groundlings of the pit’, as a secret society addressing the Master Of Revels in a glorious riposte…
Posted in British Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Book Review, British History, British Literature, British poetry, Daniel Staniforth, David Caddy, Elizabethan, English history, experimental literature, History, hybrid literature, Hybrid poetry, poetry, Prose poems, review, Skylight Press, Tears in the Fence, Tudor, William Shakespeare
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The Avant-Garde is an Old Man!
Every writer aspiring to break new literary ground has been rattled by that old chestnut from Ecclesiastes: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. And yet … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature
Tagged 1920s, 1950s, 19th century france, 20th Century Literature, Adorno, Apollinaire, Aragon, Artaud, avant garde, beat generation, Beats, Benjamin, books., Breton, Brion Gysin, Calvino, Charles Baudelaire, Chekhov, Clement Greenberg, Conrad, Corso, Cryptogram, dada, DH Lawrence, Dreamscape, Dujardin, Ecclesiastes, Edgar Allan Poe, experimental literature, Ezra Pound, Faulkner, fiction, Frankfurt School, Free Association, Freud, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Ginsberg, Hamsun, Heine, Henry James, Holderlin, Horkheimer, Hybridity, Interior Monologue, Joyce, Kerouac, Kitsch, Lamantia, Laurence Stern, Lipogram, Literature, Lost Generation, Magic Realism, Magic Surrealism, Mansfield, Novalis, Novels, Oscar Wilde, Oulipo, palindrome, Perec, Peter Burger, poetry, Post Modernism, post modernity, post-modern, post-structuralism, Prose, prose and poetry, prose poem, Prose poetry, Proust, Quenau, Renato Poggioli, Rosalind Krauss, Soupault, Stream of Consciousness, Surrealism, TS Eliot, Vanguard, William Burroughs, William James, Woolf, writing
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Guest Blog by Gordon Strong: James Joyce – Myth as Narrative
…a brave man would invent something that never happened! Joyce In both Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist and the prototype of the latter – Stephen Hero – Joyce is concerned with the presenting of ‘truth’. Not only is … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads
Tagged Aristotle, books., British Literature, British Novel, Charles Tart, Dublin, Dubliners, Edwardian History, experimental literature, F.H. Bradley, fiction, Fred Alan Wolf, Gordon Strong, Greek Drama, Irish history, Irish literature, James Joyce, Literature, Michael Davis, Mikhail Bakhtin, Modernism, Myth, mythology, novel, philosophy, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Richard Kearney, Stephen Hero, T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Ulysses, Victorian History, Werner Heisenberg
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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
Posted in Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
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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The Signatory by Kirk Marshall
“There are few more transfixing vistas than being entitled to a vision of a glassy, membrane-clustered city of racing, pivotal electricity trembling in a white glister of night – a voyage of candles blurring the boundary between occupation and a … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Australian Fiction, Australian literature, brisbane queensland, césar aira, contemporary fiction, dada, experimental fiction, experimental literature, fiction, Kirk Marshall, Language poetry, Literature, Melbourne, Nonsense literature, novel, Oulipo, Red Leaves Journal, short story competition, small press, Surrealism, travel, wordsmith, writing
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