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Tag Archives: postmodern
Letters of Light: The Magical Letters of William G. Gray to Alan Richardson
“When it comes to that curmudgeonly mage William G. Gray, put aside what you may have plucked from a less-than-accurate, holier-than-thou, insufferably superior but dried-up grapevine. Whatever his faults – and he had many – he never stinted on passing … Continue reading
Posted in British History, Esoteric, New books, Recommended reads, Reviews
Tagged Adepti, Adepts, Alan Richardson, Bildungsroman, Bill Gray, Ceremonial Magic, Cheltenham, Dion Fortune, esoteric, Esoterica, Greece, initiation, Khem, Letters, Light, Magic, Magical Groups, Magick, Magus, novel, Occult, Occult Studies, postmodern, Qabalah, ritual magic, Rosicrucian, Sex Magic, Skylight Press, W.G. Gray
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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 by Daniel Staniforth
“We are the collective pronoun not to be named; the sacred amalgam, the response harbingers around the fringes of refinery. We are informers and fetishists, sycophants and revolutionaries, the pliant in the trenches of experience, the silent mummers in supplication … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry
Tagged alchemy, Ancient Britain, Ben Johnson, British Literature, British poetry, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Marlowe, Church, Church history, conspiracy, Daniel Staniforth, Drama, Elizabethan History, Emmanuel Swedenborg, English history, English literature, English poetry, esotericism, Globe, Gordiano Bruno, Gospels, Heresy, History, Holinshed, John Dee, Literary Criticism, Literature, Magic, Masons, Montaigne, Mystery Schools, Occult, Orthodoxy, Plays, Playwrights, poetry, postmodern, Religion, ritual, Rosicrucians, Seneca, Shakespeare, Shakespearean Criticism, Swan, Templars, theatre, Theology, Tudor History, Walter Raleigh, Western Mysteries, William Shakespeare, Witchcraft
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The Fat Git by Alan Richardson
Those that are familiar with Alan Richardson’s first two novels, The Giftie and On Winsley Hill, will know that as well as having a rather delightful turn of phrase this author can also tell a rip-roaring story. Richardson’s The Fat … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Richardson, Allegory, Arthur, Arthurian Legends, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, burlesque, comedic purposes, comedy, English fiction, English novel, esoteric, Fable, fairytale, fiction, humour, Malory, Merlin, Myth, mythology, novel, Occult, Parody, postmodern, psychic, sardonic wit, satire, thomas love peacock, Western Mysteries
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