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Book Synopsis Revagations: 1966-1974 by : Eric Basso
Download or read book Revagations: 1966-1974 written by Eric Basso and published by Leaping Dog Press/Asylum. This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Biography and memoir. Eric Basso began to record his dreams in 1966, at the age of nineteen. REVAGATIONS is the first of three projected volumes. In these pages, we dicover an unconscious life laid bare in a myriad of bizarre adventures and intrigues. Whether he's dancing with Ginger Rogers, buying secondhand books from Adolf Hitler or narrating the strange history of the mutant Bazillia, Basso's imagery is always vivid, direct, sometimes poetic, at other time hilariously funny and, more often than not, brazenly politically incorrect. The first volume is preceded by Basso's diverting survey of the role played by dreams in art, literature, music and sciences.
Book Synopsis The Comedy of Agony by : Christopher Spranger
Download or read book The Comedy of Agony written by Christopher Spranger and published by Leaping Dog Press/Asylum. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Philosophy and Religion. Poetry. Christopher Spranger describes THE COMEDY OF AGONY: A BOOK OF POISONOUS CONTEMPLATIONS as an attempt to rewrite Dante's Divine Comedy while leaving out the word "God." The result is a series of short, aphorism-like pieces that become as humorous as they are dismal. "A life without suffering belongs to the same order of ideas as a soup without broth.We are accustomed to talk about catastrophe as if it were an unwelcome guest and not a secretly wished-for deliverance from the tedium of life." Spranger's first book, THE EFFORT TO FALL, is also available from SPD.
Download or read book Decompositions written by Eric Basso and published by Leaping Dog Press/Asylum. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Criticism. Art Criticism. DECOMPOSITIONS collects Eric Basso's essay on art and literature in one volume. In the pivotal essay "Annihilation," Basso takes a short story by a forgotten Hungarian writer as the springboard to a searing dissection of Rembrandt, alchemy, Stephane Mallarme, Edgar Allan Poe and Rene Daumal, closing with a new interpretation of Kafka's The Castle. Eric Basso "remains one of the most interesting writers in the country, someone whose work does not fit conveniently into categories.but whose poetry, fiction and dramatic writing extend our sense of what terms like modernism and postmodernism mean"-Stephen-Paul Martin.
Download or read book Rumi's Mathnavi written by Joe Martin and published by Leaping Dog Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama. In conjunction with UNESCO's designation of 2007 as the Year of Rumi, the Asylum Arts imprint of Leaping Dog Press has released Joe Martin's (Yousef Daoud's) stage adaptation of Rumi's Mathnavi. For ten years, Rumi has been the best selling poet in America. But until now, most English speakers have found it almost impossible to get a sense of the world of his greatest work, the Mathnavi. This Asylum Arts edition of Joe Martin's dramatic adaptation aims to provide that opportunity. This edition will give a wide audience an authentic taste of Rumi's six-volume work, in a reader's edition, accompanied by photographs from the 2005 production of the play.
Book Synopsis Burn & Learn, Or, Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era by : Eric Paul Shaffer
Download or read book Burn & Learn, Or, Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era written by Eric Paul Shaffer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burn & Learn is a wild tale of five friends attending college, drinking coffee at the Frontier Restaurant, and learning the wisdom of the ages, the era, and the street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This episodic novel begins where Laurence Sterne and Richard Brautigan left off, introducing a truly amusing and alluring wilderness of words through which readers can blaze their own glorious trials. The novel reveals all in thirteen modes ranging from mythology, science-fiction fables, American koans, Coyote tales, BookMovie chapters, missing lists, realistic narrative, encyclopedic entries enumerating the details of the Century of Technological Disaster, a love story, a lost-love story, and parables of four monkish brothers residing in a cabin on the Continental Divide. The novel encompasses all time from the beginning to the end of the universe and examines everything through the brief, flickering frames of 167 short chapters.
Download or read book The Beak Doctor written by Eric Basso and published by Leaping Dog Press/Asylum. This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. [Eric Basso] remains one of the most interesting writers in the country, someone whose work does not fit conveniently into categories like metafiction or language-centered poetry, but whose poetry, fiction and dramatic writing extend our sense of what terms like modernism and postmodernism mean -- Stephen-Paul Martin. THE BEAK DOCTOR, concluding this collection of five short stories, was first published in The Chicago Review in 1977 and has enjoyed a cult reputation among a core of avant-garde writers. The book begins with a tale of death and hideous resurrection, and concludes with the harrowing odyssey of a masked man (the Beak Doctor) in a fogbound city turned upside down by a plague of sleeping sickness.
Download or read book Bartholomew Fair written by Eric Basso and published by Leaping Dog Press/Asylum. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Set in London during a killing heat wave, Eric Basso's 1982 novel, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, unfolds as a terrible cataclysm is about to devastate the city. Begun in the Middle Ages as a religious festival in commemoration of St. Bartholomew the Great, over the centuries Bartholomew Fair passed through several metamorphoses. Now it has gone underground. Its lone survivor recounts the story of the Fair's final, sordid incarnation, and the bizarre odyssey which brings him face-to-face with the unspeakable. Rich in texture and atmosphere, this extraordinary novel is also a stylistic tour de force, in which the history of Bartholomew Fair, whose long-dead voices come to life in these pages, haunts the clandestine activities of its modern-day performers and their obsessed patrons.
Download or read book The Golem Triptych written by Eric Basso and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completed in 1983, this mesmerizing dramatic trilogy is destined to take its place beside The Playboy of the Western World, Waiting for Godot and The Homecoming as a classic of the modern theatre. Always surprising, witty and intelligent, Basso's plays move gracefully through both history and the history of theatre, incorporating at times the slapstick of Ionesco, the brooding heaviness of Ibsen, the passion, language and scope of the great Elizabethan dramatists. A powerfully moving odyssey, a transmutation of language from base metal to gold, a work of grandeur and pity.
Download or read book Catafalques written by Eric Basso and published by Leaping Dog Press/Asylum. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. With CATAFALQUES, Eric Basso plunges deeper, and more dangerously, into the interior distance he began to explore in his previous book, THE SMOKING MIRROR. Haunted by a sense of loss and foreboding, this fourth collection is rich in poems that raise the quiet mutiny against a withering cosmos. A dark magic works here, sustained by poetry that is often complex, ironic, disquieting, impassioned, and sometimes even wildly comic. The poet's resonant voice convokes a cycle of spellbinding images, both concrete and elusive, that are indeed flares burning in the counterfeit night.
Download or read book Umbra written by Eric Basso and published by Asylum Arts Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After completing his first collection of poems, Accidental Monsters, in six months, Eric Basso immediately began Umbra, which he finished on the eve of his thirtieth birthday. It is a poet's giant notebook, a laboratory for almost daily experiment with form and image. Many of the poems here read as extended haiku, others record fleeting visions, fluctuating states of mind, dwarfed mysteries of intrigue and sudden loss, brief comedies, or simply moments of heightened perception, all fixed like flies in amber. In this early collection, Basso unabashedly offers the reader poems written without a net. For anyone who wishes to look behind the curtain, Umbra is an indispensable document.
Book Synopsis Inventing the Jew by : Andrei Oisteanu
Download or read book Inventing the Jew written by Andrei Oisteanu and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing the Jew follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures (their legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols, anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to that of "high" cultures (including literature, essays, journalism, and sociopolitical writings), showing how motifs specific to "folkloric antisemitism" migrated to "intellectual antisemitism." This comparative perspective also highlights how the images of Jews have differed from that of other "strangers" such as Hungarians, Germans, Roma, Turks.
Download or read book Enigmas written by Eric Basso and published by Leaping Dog Press/Asylum. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama. Bettina L. Knapp, author of THEATRE AND ALCHEMY, wrote of Eric Basso's mammoth drama trilogy, THE GOLEM TRIPTYCH: The plays are memorable: imaginative, sensitive, and deeply gripping... Gone is the world of pseudo-certainties relied upon by many today to keep body and soul afloat. Gone as well is the dividing line between life and death, conscious and unconscious, dream and reality. Instead, presides the infinite unknown with all of its wondrous and terrifying possibilities--both human and divine. This volume brings together all the short plays of Eric Basso: Enigmas (a trilogy of one-acts), plus The Armoire and Adele Pierre. Along with the three new books THE BEAK DOCTOR, THE CATWALK WATCH and ENIGMAS, Basso is the author of ACCIDENTAL MONSTERS, also published by Asylum Arts and available from SPD.
Download or read book The Smoking Mirror written by Eric Basso and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. In THE SMOKING MIRROR, Eric Basso's third collection of poems, we cross the mysterious barricade between substance and shadow to enter that dark forest where, if the tree falls, no one is there to confirm its existence. A bit of dust or some pebbles give life to half-formed worlds, one learns how to eat without a stomach, the hummocks of Paradise and the perpetual twilight of the Underground are but a step away, a dwarf can put his ear to the floor and hear the rustle of an angel's wings. This is a poetry that stares into the cold terror of the looking-glass to unleash a frenzy of trapped images, vestibular encounters, fables and visions.
Book Synopsis Forgiven Submarine by : Ruxandra Cesereanu
Download or read book Forgiven Submarine written by Ruxandra Cesereanu and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Romanian with the title: Submarinul iertat.
Book Synopsis Novels in Three Lines by : Félix Fénéon
Download or read book Novels in Three Lines written by Félix Fénéon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious Félix Fénéon. Dandy, anarchist, and critic of genius, the discoverer of Georges Seurat and the first French publisher of James Joyce, Fénéon carefully maintained his own anonymity, toiling for years as an obscure clerk in the French War Department. Novels in Three Lines is his secret chef-d’oeuvre, a work of strange and singular art that brings back the long-ago year of 1906 with the haunting immediacy of a photograph while looking forward to such disparate works as Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Death and Disaster series of Andy Warhol.
Download or read book A Book of Dreams written by Peter Reich and published by Peter Reich. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nancy Book written by Joe Brainard and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard (author of I REMEMBER) created more than 100 works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified by the incongruity of her presence. Whether inserted into hypothetical situations, dispatched on erotic adventures, or seemingly rendered by the hands of artists as varied as Leonardo da Vinci, R. Crumb, Larry Rivers, and Willem de Kooning, Brainard's Nancy revels in as well as transcends her two-dimensionality. Together these works accumulate into a sophisticated, complex work of great wit, equal parts surprise and subtlety.The Nancy Book is the first published collection of Brainard's Nancy texts, drawings, collages and paintings (with nearly eighty full page reproductions), including collaborations with luminary New York School poets such as Frank O?Hara and Ted Berrigan, an essay by Ann Lauterbach that illuminates, with critical and poetic acumen, the complexity of Brainard's transformation of Nancy.OEvery page of this book will make you smile or laugh'not with recognition but with startled joy. Joe Brainard took an unchanging icon of the American norm and inserted her into countless fashionable or scandalous contexts, subtly metamorphosing something that seemed eternal into absurdly contemporary forms. He is as funny as only a philosopher can be.O Edmund White.OJoe Brainard's pursuit of the once ubiquitous fuzzy-haired pest Nancy chronicled one of the great love-hate relationships in American popular culture. It's wonderful to have it all between the covers of a book.O John Ashbery
