World Food Books

American Poetry in the Twentieth Century
by Kenneth Rexroth

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 180 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Herder and Herder / New York

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First 1971 hardcover edition of Rexroth's major study of modern American poetry. "An iconoclastic, gossipy, yet judicious book."—Library Journal

"Poetry has been both personally and professionally the central concern in Kenneth Rexroth's life and art. He is now recognized as one of America's leading poets and critics. A man of sharp and discriminating tastes, supported by keen sensibility and a wide erudition, he here offers a major interpretation of the poetry and poets of modern America, from the radical bohemians at the turn of the century through the leftist poets of the twenties, the reactionaries of the thirties and forties, the gradual emergence of the San Francisco school after the Second World War, to the more recent poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, and Gary Snyder.

For Kenneth Rexroth, American Poetry in the Twentieth Century is a work of re-experiencing the poems themselves, and in the process he provides a controversial new look at a number of the more unimpeachable standard authors—Stevens, Sandburg, Frost, Williams, Jarrell—and boldly redefines the value of such poets as Levertov, Moore, and Robert Lowell.

Kenneth Rexroth was born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1905, and grew up in Chicago, New York, and various towns throughout the Midwest. His erudition and range of interests have marked him as both a uniquely individual yet universal man: poet, painter, critic, linguist, guru. Mr. Rexroth now lives in Santa Barbara, California."

Very Good copy in G—VG dust jacket with some light wear to extremities and price clip to inner flap. 1975 previous owner inscription to title page.

File under: Kenneth Rexroth Herder and Herder / New York Poetry Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Out-of-print / Rare Art

An Anthology of New York Poets
Edited by Ron Padgett and David Shapiro; Drawings by Joe Brainard

1970, English
Softcover, 588 pages, 20.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

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Very collectable first edition of this major poetry anthology of the New York school published by Random House in 1970. Edited by Ron Padgett and David Shapiro, it includes a fine and generous selection of works by each poet — Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery, John Giorno, Ed Sanders, Aram Saroyan, Bernadette Mayer, Harry Mathews, Kenneth Koch, Clark Coolidge, Joseph Ceravolo, Jim Brodey, James Schuyler, Tony Towle, Edwin Denby, the editors and a handful of others, with cover and internal drawings by Joe Brainard.

"This anthology is both exciting and important.... The poetry writ- ten by these poets who were once in New York, or who met in New York, or who are now in New York, is far better poetry than any being written elsewhere at this moment in the United States.... "New York needs all kinds of help at the present time, and if the work of these twenty-seven poets can help the city of New York to survive a little longer, then let that city and all its inhabitants rejoice that it has sheltered poets of such strength and diversity, and let the population lift up its voice in gratitude and praise."—Kay Boyle

"Some of the most interesting writing of our time is in this volume."—F.W. Dupee

"The New York School of Poets-whose best-known members are John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and the late Frank O'Hara-has emerged as the creative vanguard of poetry.... These artists exert a very wide influence over a younger generation of poets- near ubiquitous influence over it, in fact. Almost every smudged page of every loosely stapled little photo-offset magazine cur- rently emanates the New York School 'sound,' and it is not too much to say that. they have influenced an entire generation of young American poets..."—Stephen Koch, The New York Times Book Review

"The work of the New York poets, while regional in name, is without question the most admired, influential, envied, and copied throughout the country. An admirable volume."—George Plimpton

“The editors of An Anthology of New York Poets are, praise be, among the poets whose work is included in this anthology. As editors they are quite needlessly concerned lest the term ‘New York School of Poets’ be accepted as a label that will serve no constructive purpose. Such a label would not only be inaccurate, they imply, but It might tend to reduce the vision and the poems of each contributor from the particular to the general in the reader’s mind. Such fears are groundless, I would like to say quickly, for if the work of Kenneth Koch, or John Ashbery, or Frank O’Hara, or Ron Padgett, or David Shapiro, and of the twenty-two other poets in this collection, is in danger of being diminished by association with New York, then New York has increased its spheres of influence since I was last there. This anthology is both exciting and important. It accomplishes the unique feat of presenting twenty-seven little books of new and good poetry in one stunning volume. And the label, ‘ New York Poets,’ does no more than provide a framework—as does the label of ‘The Twenties in Paris’ —a framework that in this instance stakes out a legitimate. Claim I see in that claim a very valuable statement, which is that the poetry written by these poets who were once in New York, or who met in New York, or who are now in New York, is far better poetry than any being written elsewhere at this moment in the United States. New York needs all kinds of help at the present time, and if the work of these twenty-seven poets can help the city of New York to survive a” little longer, then let that city and all its inhabitants rejoice that it has sheltered poets of such strength and diversity, and let the population lift up its voice in gratitude and praise. —KAY BOYLE’ …”

Very Good copy.

File under: Joe Brainard Joe Brainard James Schuyler Frank O'Hara Ted Berrigan John Ashbery John Giorno Ed Sanders Aram Saroyan Bernadette Mayer Harry Mathews Kenneth Koch Joseph Ceravolo Jim Brodey Tony Towle Edwin Denby Ron Padgett David Shapiro Clark Coolidge Fiction / Poetry Poetry Art Out-of-print / Rare

THE CARRIONFLOWER WRIT (lot of 3 issues 1985—1990)
Edited by Javant Biarujia

1985—1990, English
Softcover (broadsheet folded 4 times), 30 x 21 cm (folded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Nosukumo / Melbourne

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Rare lot of 3 issues of short-lived Melbourne experimental poetry broadsheet, The Carrionflower Writ, 'An art and literary broadsheet issued on an irregular basis', edited by Javant Biarujia and published by Biaruji's own Nosukumo Press, Melbourne, between 1985—1990. Each issue takes the form of a large fold-out broadsheet, two-colour printed on differing paper stocks, full of experimental type-setting and beautiful illustrations and devoted to Australian 'poetry on the margins' Poets included throughout its short history included Javant Biarujia, Ian Birks, Kris Hemensley, Chris Mann, Raimondo Cortese, Pete Spence, Jurate Sasnaitis, C.E. Roberts, Philip Sipp, Adrian Rawlins, amongst others.

"Javant Biarujia is an iconoclastic Australian poet, at once an unparalleled linguistic confabulator and an exponent of Melbourne avant-garde poetics since the 1970s. Biarujia's work marks out its own historical forebears and familiars in a way that I believe — although absolutely in association with contemporary histories of poetry such as American Language poetry, Australian bricolage, and European surrealism — happens to hybridise baroque linguistic ingenuity with deconstructive collage and games of poetic reality that defy straightforward historical alignment"—Corey Wakeling, Cordite Poetry Review

Good copies all with degrees of tanning and light wear. Folded as issued.

File under: Chris Mann Pete Spence Jurate Sasnaitis Ian Birks Kris Hemensley Chris Mann Pete Spence Jurate Sasnaitis Philip Sipp Adrian Rawlins Javant Biarujia Raimondo Cortese C.E. Roberts Nosukumo / Melbourne Concrete Poetry Fiction / Poetry Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Australian Art

Total Expansion of the Letter Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
By Trevor Stark

2020, English
Hardcover, 440 pages, 17.8 x 22.9 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York

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How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.

At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark offers a provocative history of this “linguistic turn,” centered on the radical doubt about the social function of language that defined the avant-garde movements. Major cubists and Dadaists—including Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Tristan Tzara—appropriated bureaucratic paperwork, newspapers, popular songs, and advertisements, only to render them dysfunctional and incommunicative. In doing so, Stark argues, these figures contended with the utopian vision of the late nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who promised a “total expansion of the letter.”

In his poems, Mallarmé claimed, “the act of writing was scrutinized down to its origins.” This scrutiny, however, delivered his work into an indeterminate zone between mediums, social practices, and temporalities—a paradox that reverberates through Stark's wide-ranging case studies in the history of the avant-garde. Stark examines Picasso's nearly abstract works of 1910, which promised to unite painting and writing at the brink of illegibility; the cubists' “hope of an anonymous art,” expressed in newspaper collages and industrial colors; the collaborative, cacophonous invention of “simultaneous poems” by the Dadaists in Zurich during World War I; and Duchamp's artistic exploration of chance in gambling and finance. Each of these cases reflected the avant-garde's transformative encounter with the premise of Mallarmé's poetics: that language—the very medium of human communication and community—is perpetually in flux and haunted by emptiness.

As certain artists experimenting in the postwar orbit of John Cage well knew, it was not he who introduced the conceptual scope of chance and musical metric into the language of art. In his brilliant book on Mallarmé's legacy—sure to correct the record—Trevor Stark positions the Coup de Dés as the first score of the twentieth century. Inhabiting industrialism's destruction of the subject, and an infinite abstraction—as chance gave way to indeterminism—Mallarmé encoded his best-known poem with score-like traits (time/realization) and ambiguity (language's readymade indeterminacy); thus he cast the death of the author like a bottle thrown at sea. Such stakes are clear because Stark makes them so. With not a word or a sentence wasted, he adroitly guides us through the Mallarméan dimensions of three pivotal experiments: Braque and Picasso's introduction of text into pictorial space (1910/1912); the temporal-auditory collage of Tzara's simultaneous poems honed in the collectivism of Zurich Dada; and Duchamp's ultimate transvaluation of art/work in Monte Carlo. The often-startling fruits of Stark's meticulous research are presented with a light touch, a space for realization; yet we sense the intellectual and “intermedial” virtuosity the author brings to the task—handling, deciphering, hearing, seeing, translating, across disciplines, languages, and time(s)—to convey his cases and insights to 21st-century readers with the force of contemporaneity. — Julia E. Robinson, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at New York University; curator of the exhibition John Cage & Experimental Art: The Anarchy of Silence

File under: John Cage Marcel Broodthaers Pablo Picasso Tristan Tzara Marcel Duchamp Paul Cezanne Georges Braque Francis Picabia Hugo Ball F.T. Marinetti Trevor Stark Stéphane Mallarmé Tristan Tzara Martin Heidegger Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Edmund Husserl Maurice Merleau-Ponty The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Dada Fluxus

Stroke by Stroke
by Henri Michaux

2006, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 15.24 x 1.91 x 16.51 cm
Published by Archipelago Books / New York

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Stroke by Stroke is a pairing of two of Henri Michaux's most suggestive texts, Stroke by Stroke (Par des traits, 1984) and Grasp (Saisir, 1979), written towards the end of his life. Michaux's ideogrammic ink drawings accompany his poetic explorations of animals, humans, and the origins of language. This series of verbal and pictorial gestures is at once explosive and contemplative. Michaux emerges at his most Zen.

"I first encountered Michaux's astonishing work in Stroke By Stroke, a physically and conceptually beautiful little book . . . Reading Stroke By Stroke, I felt invited to travel "toward greater ungraspability"—and in our uncertain times, Michaux's ease with that is deeply reassuring."—Martha Cooley, The Common

Henri Michaux (1899-1994) was born in Namur, Belgium. His travels throughout the Americas, Asia, and Africa inspired his first two books, Ecuador and A Barbarian in Asia. In 1948, after the death of his wife, he devoted himself increasingly to his distinctive calligraphic ink drawings. Averse to publicity of any sort, in 1965 he refused the French Grand Prix National des Lettres. Michaux's other works in English translation include Emergences-Resurgences (Skira, 2001), Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology (California, 1997), Tent Posts (Sun and Moon, 1997), and A Barbarian in Asia (New Directions, 1986).

Richard Sieburth's translations include Georg Büchner's Lenz, Friedrich Holderlin's Hymns and Fragments, Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary, Gérard de Nerval's Selected Writings, Henri Michaux's Emergences/Resurgences, Michel Leiris' Nights as Day, Days as Night, and Gershom Scholem's The Fullness of Time. His English edition of the Nerval won the 2000 PEN/ Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize. His recent translation of Maurice Sceve's Délie was a finalist for the PENTranslation Prize and the Weidenfeld Prize.

File under: Henri Michaux Richard Sieburth Archipelago Books / New York Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Surrealism Drawing Painting

Everybody Should Get Stones
by Noel Sheridan (signed w. dedication)

1974?, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 72 pages, 20.5 x 14.5 cm
Signed copy,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Noel Sheridan / Adelaide

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Very rare and terrific conceptual art/poetry book (c.1974) by performance artist, poet, actor, "amateur painter" and exceptionally valuable director of the Experimental Art Foundation (EAF) in Adelaide from 1975—1980, Noel Sheridan (1936—2006). Founded by a small group of artists, curators and theorists, the EAF was heralded as the first alternative art space in Australia, with a mission to promote art that interrogated the status quo. Seemingly self-published in 1974 once Irish-born Sheridan had relocated to Adelaide, and the year before Sheridan's controversial "Everybody Should Get Stones" installation at the Art Gallery of South Australia, composed of 25 tonnes of river stones strewn across the gallery's floor, "Everybody Should Get Stones" is a remarkably witty, instructional language-performance piece around collecting stones on a beach, very much in the Oulipo spirit, or Fluxus.

"These procedures are intended to bring a greater precision to your quality ascriptions. Initial tests were carried out by J. Neuner and N. Sheridan on Coynes cross beach, due east of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, during the Summer months of 1971. It is not essential to use the above location to perform these exercises. Any stony beach will do. Select an area of beach and begin."

Broken into four parts, from selection methods that are irrational and unpredictable, to mathematically exhaustive, to literary (the selection of stones that are most apt to specific quotes from Beckett, Goethe, Wittgenstein, Galvani, Descartes, Hume, and Sheridan's beloved fellow-Irishman Joyce, amongst many others — all reproduced).

Only one copy located on WorldCat (in Dublin).

This copy signed by Noel on the title page with dedication to American-Australian experimental composer Warren Burt. "For Warren, may all your penguins be green. Noel". Irish-born Noel was fondly known for his wardrobe of green attire. Very Good copy with tanning/wear to cover extremities.

File under: Noel Sheridan Noel Sheridan Noel Sheridan / Adelaide Concrete Poetry Poetry Fiction / Poetry Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare 'Pataphysics / Oulipo Fluxus Art Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Signed Books

Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares / Jeunes cerisiers garantis contre less lievres
by André Breton; cover by Marcel Duchamp; illustrations by Arshile Gorky

1946, English / French
Hardcover (w. die-cut dust jacket), unpaginated, 23.5 by 15.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by View Editions / New York

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Very Rare first 1946 hardcover English edition of André Breton's poetry collection "Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares / Jeunes cerisiers garantis contre less lievres", with original die-cut cover art by Marcel Duchamp and internal illustrations by Arshile Gorky, published by View Editions. A beautiful publication with Breton's original French poems with facing English translations by Edouard Roditi. Breton asked Armenian-American painter Gorky, an essential bridge between European Surrealism and American Abstract Expression, to produce unique drawings in 1945. Marcel Duchamp contributed the cover design and the title was a chance find in a horticulture magazine that also contains a pun on Breton's private life, whose wife had recently left him for artist David Hare. Gorky produced drawings to accompany Breton's poems that did not so much illustrate the poems, as they applied free association mark making analogous with the poetry's evocation, similarly free from logic or narration. Gorky's “automatic drawings” were made without preconception and the creations are interpreted as subconscious thought.

Average—Good copy for a book rarely seen outside museum collections. Internally Good throughout, content pages Very Good. Ex-library of Royal College of of Art, London, with associated markings to front/back blanks (not covers), jacket laminated (die-cut free) adhered in place with wear to extremities, tanning, marking and spine damages. More images upon request.

File under: André Breton Marcel Duchamp Arshile Gorky André Breton Edouard Roditi View Editions / New York Surrealism Fiction / Poetry Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Art

Burn,Drop,CopOUT
by C.E. Roberts (signed w. dedication + hand-written insert)

1989, English
Softcover (bound with Boston screws + text insert), 100 pages, 30 x 21 cm
Signed copy,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Post Neo / Elwood Irregular Brain Post / Elwood

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Mysterious, extremely rare and totally great artist's visual poetics book by one C.E. Roberts (aka Cerebral Shorts, or Charles Roberts, publisher of Convolusions: Of the Irregular Brain Post) and published in Melbourne in 1989 by Australian poet and mail artist Pete Spence's Post Neo imprint and Roberts' own Irregular Brain Post, Elwood. Bound with three Chicago screws, this 100 page work is really something. Each page is lettered and made up of three columns of information — the first column presents a changing pictorial graphic tile; the second titled "AUDIO (disinformation)" containing a stream-of-conscious type of observational/internal monologue that chops and loops without punctuation over memories of explicit sexual encounters and visions of flowers (and much between); and a third titled "VIDEO (misinformation)" made up of concise text thoughts/statements/scenes, and introduces us to a series of fictional(?) films entitled: 'Fag Hunt', 'Business Hunt', Skinny Hunt', 'Witch Hunt", etc. A chyron of text runs across the bottom of each page like a broadcast, also, spanning the entire book, creating a multi-channel text work that is delirious, monotonous, philosophical, absurd, horny, and devastating. Decadent, even pataphysical/Oulipo tendencies fractured through a postmodern interface of schizo-queer cyber-poetics. It's terrific and almost doesn’t exist.

No copies located on WorldCat.

This copy signed by Roberts with a dedication to "WB" (Australian experimental composer Warren Burt) with a simple "BLAH HUMBUG" — CS. Also contains an inserted "bookmark" small scrap of paper with a penciled original text by Roberts about the crucified body.

Very Good copy with light age/tan line to spine cover edge.

File under: C.E. Roberts C.E. Roberts Post Neo / Elwood Irregular Brain Post / Elwood Australian Art Australian Photography Art Out-of-print / Rare Concrete Poetry Poetry Fiction / Poetry Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Signed Books LGBTQ+

Convolusions: Of the Irregular Brain Post (lot of 5 issues)
July 1989—January 1990; Edited by Cerebral Shorts and Pete Spence

1989—1990, English
5 publications, softcover (staple-bound + rubber-stamped), approx 20 pages ea., 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cerebral Shorts / Elwood Irregular Brain Post / Elwood

$180.00 - Out of stock

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Rare lot of 5 issues of Convolusions: Of the Irregular Brain Post — dating between July 1989—January 1990. Rare Visual Poetry / Mail Art zine issued by post in the late 1980s—early 1990s by Australian visual poets Cerebral Shorts and Pete Spence, each issue packed with border-busting international postal network contributions of photocopy artworks (collages, photographs, etc.) and texual collage/poetry, prose works, with notes, "missing peoples", radical texts, and classifieds/call-outs for other international mail-art publications. Contributors amongst these issues include: Shozo Shimamoto (Japan), Satan Panonski (Jugoslavia), Julie Clarke-Powell (Australia), Guy Bleus (Belgium), Ry Nikonova (USSR), STOP AIDS (USA), Ivica Čuljak (Yugoslavia), Géza Perneczky (West Germany), Monty Cantsin (Canada), David Powell (Australia), Ruggero Maggi (Italy), Shaun Robert (England), Jonas Nekrašius (USSR), Pete Spence (Australia), Emilio Morandi (Italy), Sándor Fodor (Romania), Miroslav Janoušek (Czech), Javant Biarujia (Australia), to name a few... Back cover of each issue features multi-coloured original rubber stamp/print gocco art. An important piece of the very under-documented Melbourne visual poetry / mail art “scene”.

Based in Kyneton, Victoria, Pete Spence (b. 1946) has been internationally active in Mail Art, Visual Poetry, Experimental Film, and Lyric Verse throughout the 1980s—2000s, founding Post Neo Publications in 1984 to publish works by Luc Fierens, Hannah Weiner, Berni Janssen, Alex Selenitsch, and others. His own first book, FIVE Poems, was published in 1986 by Nosukomo. For over four decades he has been quietly pursuing his own direction in this multiplicity of art forms but in particular in his witty, idiosyncratic, entertaining poetry.

Good—VG copy, rusting to one staple.

File under: Shozo Shimamoto Satan Panonski Pete Spence Guy Bleus Ry Nikonova STOP AIDS Ivica Čuljak Géza Perneczky David Powell Monty Cantsin Sándor Fodor Miroslav Janoušek Cerebral Shorts (Charles Roberts) Pete Spence Julie Clarke-Powell David Powell Javant Biarujia Cerebral Shorts / Elwood Irregular Brain Post / Elwood Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Australian Art Counterculture Protest / Revolt Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Concrete Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fiction / Poetry Dada Drawing Group Shows / Collections

Le Sang et La Rose No. 2, 1969

1969, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 2 includes photographic features by Yasuhiro Yoshioka and Yoshihiro Tatsuki, the artwork of French decorator of department store mannequins and surrealist Sunday painter Clovis Trouille, Venus in Furs erotic photo shoot by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Yokoo Tadanori, Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Alberto Martini, Félicien Rops, Rene Magritte, an incredible feature "Machine for Murder" with art by Hiroshi Nakamura, Tomi Ungerer, Koichi Tanigawa, Osamu Tsukasa, Tatsuo Ikeda, Marcel Duchamp, Seiichi Horiuchi, and others, an article on the erotica of Ukiyo-e with a fold-out colour three panel poster, the fully illustrated museum supplement on Demonology by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history, texts by Apollinaire, Burroughs, Mutsuo Takahashi, articles on laws pertaining to homosexuality, Kama Sutra, shoe fetishism, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear.

File under: Yoshihiro Tatsuki Clovis Trouille Tadanori Yokoo Yasuhiro Yoshioka Yokoo Tadanori Hans Bellmer Leonor Fini Alberto Martini Félicien Rops Rene Magritte Hiroshi Nakamura Tomi Ungerer Koichi Tanigawa Osamu Tsukasa Tatsuo Ikeda Marcel Duchamp Seiichi Horiuchi Yasuhiro Ishimoto Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Georges Bataille Mutsuo Takahashi Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Periodicals Eros LGBTQ+ Art Surrealism Counterculture Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Philosophy Fiction / Poetry Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Le Sang et La Rose No. 3, 1969

1969, Japanese / French
Softcover, 232 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - In stock -

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 3 (with cover by Bronzino, 1554) includes full-colour photographic feature by Kishin Shinoyama ("Virgin In Uniform" featuring models/artists Angela Asaoka, Akaji Maro, Yoko Ashikawa) and beautiful Shomei Tomatsu photo feature ("Scoptophilia"), the artwork of the great French cross-dressing painter-photographer Pierre Molinier, texts by Jirō Kawamura, Yumiko Kurahashi, Taruho Inagaki ("Memories of Hemorrhoids or "New Tsurezuregusa"), Akiyuki Nosaka ("Dear Penis, Goodbye"), Minoru Minamihara ("The Mystic Thought of Love in the Case of Jakob Böhme"), Takiji Kobayashi, The Fictitious Garden of Babylon by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Tsunekazu Murata ("Witch's Ax : Concerning Heresy in Medieval Europe"), translation of Franz Kafka "Metamorphosis" illustrated by Franco Gentilini, recent research on homosexuality by film critic Jin'ichi Uekusa, Kama Sutra, more Gay (Danshoku) Japanese Theater history, Marquise de Blancvilliers by Koji Nakata, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Shomei Tomatsu Pierre Molinier Franco Gentilini Yokoo Tadanori Angela Asaoka Akaji Maro Yoko Ashikawa Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Franz Kafka Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Jun’nosuke Yoshiyuki Kôichi Iijima Jûrô Kara Ikuya Kato Minoru Yoshioka Ryûichi Tamura The Marquis de Sade Georges Bataille Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Jirō Kawamura Yumiko Kurahashi Akiyuki Nosaka Minoru Minamihara Jakob Böhme Takiji Kobayashi Tsunekazu Murata Jin'ichi Uekusa Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Japanese Photography Surrealism Philosophy Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Art Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica Photography Sociology / Politics

Adulterers Anonymous
by Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka

1982, English
Softcover, 110 pages, 23.65 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Grove Press / New York

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First Grove edition, first printing of Adulterers Anonymous by Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka.

"Visceral, raw, passionate, and sexually charged, these writings represent a unique collaboration by two of America's top figures in the underground rock music field. Combining a surreal informality, a deliberate vulgarity, camp humor, and the impassioned outbursts of society's dispossessed, their voices cut through to the core of discontent: an unsettling, ever-shifting world of illusion and disillusion.

Called at one time the ""No-Wave' Queen" by The New York Times, Lydia Lunch has had a seminal influence on "no-wave" and other forms of avant-garde music in her roles as originator of the group Teenage Jesus and as lead singer and lyricist for the group Eight-Eyed Spy, among many others. Exene Cervenka is the lead singer and lyricist for the rock group X, whose album, Wild Gift, was released to nearly unanimous critical acclaim, and named pop album of the year by The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times."

Average—Good copy with reading creases to stiff cardboard cover, foxing and tanning to book block and pages edges.

File under: Lydia Lunch Exene Cervenka Lydia Lunch Exene Cervenka Grove Press / New York Sound / Music Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Nadja
by Andre Breton

1960 / 1994, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 20.96 x 13.97 cm
Published by Grove Press / New York

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"Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life.

The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in the city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various "surreal" people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. "The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as "not so much a thing as a way things happen, " Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.

VG copy of the 1960 reprint from 1994?

File under: Andre Breton Grove Press / New York Surrealism Fiction / Poetry Art

Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image)

1970, German / French
Softcover, 118 pages, 21 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Rare, important exhibition catalogue designed by Walter Diethelm, published on the occasion of the exceptional exhibition Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image), held at the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich, July 11—August 23, 1970. Preface by Felix Andreas Baumann. "The point is to present this literature, which is located between writing and images, text and graphics and around the tertium comparationis of typography, to an audience that is probably not too familiar with the techniques and variants of “concrete literature”—from the preface. An incredible and varied anthology of the experimental, poetic, graphic interplay of text and image, profusely illustrated in b/w, accompanied by texts in German and French by Stéphane Mallarmé, F.T. Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Oyvind Fahlström, El Lissitzky, André Breton, Eugen Gomringer, Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos, Jan Hamilton Finlay, Pierre Garnier, Max Bense, Reinhard Döhl, Carlfriedrich Claus, Seiichi Niikuni, Henri Chopin, Franz Mon, Jiri Kolár, and Bob Cobbing.

Artists included: Stéphane Mallarmé, Arno Holz, Christian Morgenstern, F.T. Marinetti, Carlo Carrà, Lacerba, Ardengo Soffici, Hugo Ball, Georges Braque, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Amédée Ozenfant, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Hausmann, Fernand Léger, Richard Hülsenbeck, Vincente Huidobro, Francis Picabia, Jean Pougny, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee, Bruno Adler, Jean Epstein, Theo Van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Jozef Peeters, Sonja Delaunay-Terk, Iliazd, Friedrich Kiesler, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Käthe Steinitz, Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Henryk Berlewi, Farkas Molnár, Zenit, Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann, Walter Gropius, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, and Georges Hugnet.

Very Good ex-NGV library copy, well preserved with only light wear and "National Gallery of Victoria" light stamp to block edge and lower back-cover. No internal stamping/marking.

File under: Carlo Carrà F.T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Arno Holz Christian Morgenstern Lacerba Ardengo Soffici Hugo Ball Georges Braque Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Amédée Ozenfant Guillaume Apollinaire Marcel Janco Tristan Tzara Raoul Hausmann Fernand Léger Richard Hülsenbeck Vincente Huidobro Francis Picabia Jean Pougny Kurt Schwitters Paul Klee Bruno Adler Jean Epstein Theo Van Doesburg El Lissitzky Jozef Peeters Sonja Delaunay-Terk Iliazd Friedrich Kiesler Man Ray László Moholy-Nagy Käthe Steinitz Theo van Doesburg Hans Arp Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Henryk Berlewi Farkas Molnár Zenit Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann Walter Gropius John Heartfield Marcel Duchamp Le Corbusier Georges Hugnet Walter Diethelm Jiří Kolář Öyvind Fahlström Stéphane Mallarmé F. T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti André Breton Haroldo de Campos Jan Hamilton Finlay Pierre Garnier Max Bense Reinhard Döhl Carlfriedrich Claus Seiichi Niikuni Henri Chopin Franz Mon Bob Cobbing Tristan Tzara El Lissitzky Eugen Gomringer Felix Andreas Baumann Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich Group Shows / Collections Concrete Poetry Conceptual Art Dada Fluxus Art Fiction / Poetry Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Graphic Design / Typography Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Poetry Bauhaus

Small As Life And Infinitesimally As Pure
by Matt Valentine

2003, English
Softcover (staplebound), 82 pages, 22 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Child of Microtones / Vermont

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Very rare first (limited) edition, first printing, hand-bound and hand-numbered copy of only 99 copies (this copy no. "51"), 'Small As Life And Infinitesimally As Pure' is the first experimental psychoactive pulp novella of Matt Valentine, self-published in 2003.

In the 1990's Matt Valentine was in the experimental lo-fi noise-psych group, The Tower Recordings (Siltbreeze, Spirit of Orr, etc.), then formed the legendary Vermont-based group MV & EE (Matt "MV" Valentine and Erika "EE" Elder and a rotating group of musicians inc. J. Mascis, Chris Corsano, André Vida, etc.) on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace!, etc. Matthew Valentine’s Child Of Microtones imprint was one of the first labels to fully explode the CD-R format that disseminated the new "freak folk" sound in the US, and here for the first time also his writing.

"MV is free folk. He’s also a wordsmith par excellence, an inspired writer"—Byron Coley

"a wonderfully cracked yarn about record-collecting, Buddha, nature, drugs, sex, and many other important topics. If you like his musical work, you will certainly shit yourself sideways reading his fine words." —Bull Tongue

VG—Near Fine copy.

File under: MV & EE The Tower Recordings Matt Valentine Matt Valentine Child of Microtones / Vermont Sound / Music Drugs / Psychedelia Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare

Alex Selenitsch
four 4-colour books

2008 / 2015, English
4 hand-sewn books in a plastic file (softcover books w. cut/folded coloured papers, white photocopy title sheet), each book 16 pages, 21 x 21 cm
Ed. of 32, numbered,
Published by Alex Selenitsch / Melbourne

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Artist book edition published in an edition of 32 hand-numbered copies. Each edition is made up of 4 hand-sewn books in a plastic file. Each book comprises 16 pages of cut/folded coloured papers presenting a colour narrative: four pastel ‘primaries’ making colour tableaux, introduced and closed off by black and white covers.

The coloured pages are assembled from A3 sheets which have been halved: accurately in two cases (straight line orthogonal and straight line incline) or approximately (sinusoidal and horizontal tear). The cut-outs on the cover hint at the kind of division or halving that the coloured sheets have been subjected to. Both halves are used in the edition of each book, so that each edition of 32 copies with 4 folded sheets (giving 16 pages) uses 64 sheets. For the approximate cuts (sinusoidal and horizontal tear), there is some variation inside the edition.

File under: Alex Selenitsch Alex Selenitsch / Melbourne Art Australian Art Fiction / Poetry Objects / Ephemera / A/V Poetry

The Darkroom
by Marguerite Duras

2021, English
Softcover, 152 pages, 20.32 x 12.7 cm
Published by Contra Mundum Press / New York

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Introduction by Jean-Luc Nancy
Translated by Alta Ifland

THE DARKROOM contains the script for Duras' 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The Truck), as well as four manifesto-like propositions in which Duras protests that most movies "beat the imagination to death" because they "are the same every time they are played." She also accuses the gatekeepers of traditional cinema of treating intelligence as if it were a "class phenomenon" and distinguishes her own approach: a cinema based on ideas and sensory experience. In the dialogue with Michelle Porte at the end of the book, Duras further describes her filmmaking style, discussing everything from her biography to her critique of Marxism.

Much of the film consists of the sounds and images of a truck rumbling through an industrial landscape dotted with dilapidated, immigrant shantytowns. Periodically, the images of the truck are interrupted by cutaways of Duras and G rard Depardieu sitting in Duras' living room, reading from a script that includes a dialogue between a staunchly communist truck driver and an anonymous, ethnically-unidentifiable woman who stands in as an alter-ego for Duras and at the same time is a substitute for "everyone." Neither of the characters are ever shown on-screen. Via an afterimage effect, the juxtaposed voice-over text and cutaways help the film's audience members project their own images of the truck driver and hitchhiker onto the screen. The truck driver quickly decides the hitchhiker is "a reactionary" suffering from some kind of "mental disturbance." Using the "mad," uneducated woman (who, is, nevertheless, interested in everything from the position of the earth in the universe to politics to such august personalities as Proust, Corneille, and Marx), Duras criticizes the invasion of Prague by the Soviets in 1968 and its support by the French Communist Party.

Between the images of the truck, juxtaposed voice-overs, and cutaways to Duras and Depardieu, the art of film becomes the art of opening audience members to the possibility of engaging multiple faculties-not only the visual and the aural, but also memory, imagination, and desire.

File under: Marguerite Duras Michelle Porte Marguerite Duras Jean-Luc Nancy Contra Mundum Press / New York Fiction / Poetry Film / Video

Cyclonopedia : Complicity with Anonymous Materials
by Reza Negarestani

2014, English
Softcover, 268 pages, 15 x 22.6 cm
Published by re.press / Prahran

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At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, Cyclonopedia is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary world politics and the War on Terror with the archaeologies of the Middle East and the natural history of the Earth itself. Cyclonopedia is a Middle Eastern Odyssey, populated by archaeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force officers, heresiarchs, corpses of ancient gods and other puppets. The journey to the Underworld begins with petroleum basins and the rotting Sun, continuing along the tentacled pipelines of oil, and at last unfolding in the desert, where monotheism meets the Earth's tarry dreams of insurrection against the Sun.

File under: Reza Negarestani re.press / Prahran Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Ecology Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

GIFTNÅLEN no. 1

2024, English
Hardcover, 480 pages, 29.7 x 20 cm
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

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Edited and assembled by Kristian Olsson. Almost an encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts and much beyond! Book-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, esoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic collages, oneiric musings, outlaw occultism, perversion, sinister arts and visual expansionism. Giftnålen is the foul arts journal for death-obsessed brutes and society’s outcasts. Revel in amoral excesses through 480 pages. Sit back and enjoy reading while this world burns. A total derangement of the senses. Heavily illustrated with tons of exclusive and rarely seen material.
Harking back to the days of the late 1980s-early 1990s in terms of diversity of content, drawing inspiration from underground books & publications such as Amok, Esoterra, Exit, Force Mental, Pandemonium, Rapid Eye Movement, Svarta Fanor and so on. Giftnålen takes it next level and further into unknown territory.

Including passages, large or brief, dealing with:
Sigvard Nilsson Thurneman & Den Magiska Cirkeln, ”Thurneman & Liemannen from the perspective of a LHP initiate” by Johannes Kvarnbrink, “The Vultures of Sala”, Georges Bataille & the Acephale society, ”Death and Night and Blood: Yukio Mishima & the Asceticism of Japanese Death-Aesthetics”, ”Hatets sånger” by Leon Larsson, ”Hyoscyamus Nigredo: From Silver Into Lead”, “Manhunter: Thurneman – Occultist & Serial Killer” by Wulvaricht, ”The Devil in Delgada: The Strange & Unusual Lives of Johnny Bode & Tom Zacharias”, ”11.000 Days in Säter: Från Dårhus till Bårhus”, ”The Sense of Bel-Longing” poem by Julian Theurgen, “The Thurneman improvisations” by Sten Röse, “Sigvards sterbthaler”, ”The Triumph of Death” by Alberto Caraco, SalaSatanskin, Judas Ekholm, ”The Poisonous Needle: Esoterrorist Credo of the Sinister Outlaw”, ”Salaligan: Tools of the Trade”, melancholia, Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan over a hundred years, De Strigmagarum Daemonique Mirandis, ”The Curse of the Third Eye”, ”Fem-femmornas fotbollsmatch: criminal all-stars Thurneman, Salaligan & Johnny Bode teaming up against the screws at the Långholmen prison”, Tillbergamördaren, Renzo Novatore, ”Teurgisk Terrortantra: Photos by MalFiore di Fiele & Frida Ghiozzi (Omega Kunst)”, ”The Poetic Tradition of Swedish Melancholia: A Portrayal of Dismal & Unfortunate Death-seekers in the ruinous Land of the Midnight Sun”, Nattmaran, ”Lasse Lucidor – the Unfortunate: Rusets och ruelsens skald”, Erik Johan Stagnelius – Dweller in the Arms of Putrefaction, Plato, Dante, ”Iatromantis: To Die Before You Die”, Meister Eckhart, Parmenides, the Upanishads, Djävulsbrand, Styggen, underworldly descent, Peter Kingsley, ”Avfyrning!”, Ecstasies, The Death Principle, ”Henbane: Saturnalia Poison” & ”A Woodland Sitting” by Sentinessence, ”The Linkola Legacy”, Apocalypse Culture, Deep Ecology, Oscar Wilde, Max Stirner, Ingmar Bergman, Albert Camus, ”Killing Cults & Their Slaves” reflections by Charles Manson (exclusive text submitted by ATWA/ATWAR), “Red & Blue”, ”Ashen Synchronicities”, haruspex of criminal gnosis, ”Meeting with a Remarkable Man: An Interview with Nikolas Schreck”, Spiritual Warriorhood in the Age of Dissolution, Initiatory Mysteries in the Temples of Karnak, The Faustian Quest, Charlatans of Occulture, Vama Marg, Esoteric Tantric Buddhism, The Three Poisons, Solitude & Subtraction, The Process Church of Final Judgement, Scientology, ”Counter-Culture”: A Fly Entangled in the Webs of Maya, luddite poetry, The Manson-File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman, Eros & Thanatos, Storms of Sethian Liberation, ”Abraxas & His Mysteries: The Forgotten God & the Hidden Nature of Reality”, Abraxas in Hesse’s ”Demian”, extract from ”Opposition is True Friendship” – Karl NE on Abrades, D.H. Lawrence ”Taos”, The Abraxas Foundation, Michael Moynihan, Boyd Rice, ”Monarchie Infernale: The Occult History of the Royal Court and the Aristocratic Elite in Sweden during the Gustavian Era”, ”Of Blind Men & Occult Forces”, Blutleuchte, “The Hearts of Kings” Ajna Offensive, Descent magazine, Lightbringers of the North, Gustav Biörnram – necromancer of the Swedish king Gustav III, The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, ”Nekromantiens: Riter vid Sankt Johannes Kyrkogård”, Andrew Chumbley, Algolagonia, The Malleus Maleficarum: Europe Overshadowed by the Hammer of Witches, The Gates of Hell Opening in Copenhagen, La sorcière, ”Method for Achieving Communication with Spirits” translated notes from the necromantic conjurations of Gustaf Björnram, ”Carl August Ehrensvärd & Den Esoteriska Kretsen: Eleusinian Mysteries & Orphic Hymns in the Mythological Labyrinth”, Gottfried Benn, ”The Mystical Signatures of Adolph Falkenberg”, Gustaf Adolf Reutersholm, Den Esoteriska Kretsen, Sophia Perennis, René Guenon, J.W. von Goethe, Oswald Spengler, ”Death to those who seek false comforts” by Erica Frevel, ”In the Midst of Life, We are in Death”, ”Riddles of the Sevenfold Way”, Anton Long, Algernon Blackwood, ”The Man Whom the Trees Loved”, Richard Moult, Michael Morthwork,”The Ordeal of the Abyss: Interview with Christos Beest”, ”From Ancient Gods into New Devils”, Wotan, self-sacrificial offerings, burial traditions, black magic rites, C.S. Lewis, Guido Cernonetti, Man Ray, BDSM, Aldous Huxley, Octave Mirabeau, Ambrose Bierce, G.I. Gurdjieff, King Gustav III, ”Ernst Wagner against the degenerate world”, ”Liber Nigri Peregrinationis: The Black Pilgrimage to Chorazaim & the Crossing of the Abyss”, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, L. Ron Hubbard, Leonora Carrington, the scholia of Nicolas Gomez Davila, Arcana Europa, Ignus Fatuus: Irrlicht, The Lunar Accomplice”, Shintoism, ”Mount Analogue & the Dark Night of the Soul”, René Daumal, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, G.I. Gurdjieff, Saint John of the Cross, ”Behold… the Blood of the Moon”, Mircea Eliade, ”Det Sjunde Inseglet: Procession Scene”, ”H.P. Lovecraft – A Comrade of the Wolves & Rider of Nightmares”, Alain Robbe-Grillet, ”Mysterium Tremendum: An interview with Carl Nordblom”, “Det skälvande mysteriet”, infernal pacts, criminal gangs of Sweden, secret brotherhoods, the UR Group, Ezra Pound, August Strindberg, from “On the Heights of Despair” by Emil Cioran, self-transformation, Hanon-Tramp, Henri Fuseli, ”The Dawning New Days of Defeat”, Hagakure, ”Mishima on Death in the Modern Age”, Ba Ra Ken: Ordeal of Roses, Eino Leino, Ulrike Meinhof, Holger Meins, “Bo Ignatius Cavefors landstigen på Dödens ö”, Alexandra David-Neel, Janne Bergquist: an open cancerous wound on the body of society, Autonomisk Manual, Kenneth Anger, Sir Augen Goosens, the Anarchs-Futurist Manifesto, Ernest Coeurderoy, the Kindred of the Kibbo Gift, Antonin Artaud, Marquis de Sade, Set Teitan, Paul Verlaine, Guido von List, The Rise and Fall of Hanussen – Occult superstar of the Interwar Period: Charlatan from the Finee Salons of Berlin to Feeding a Family of Badgers, Zos Kia, Paul Wegener, ritual bloodletting, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Christos Beest, Carl von Linné, Boyd Rice, Nikanor Teratologen, Melek Taus of Holland, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Mensur scarification – A Rite of Passage in 20th century Europe, yoga practices with Che Guevara, ”Frank Braun: Devil hunter or doppelgänger?”, Blood mysticism & Teutonic Vampirism, Viktor Rydberg on the Mandragora, ”The Curse of Nosferatu: Fraternitas Saturni’s Master Pacitus & Prana Film”, Ernst Jünger ”Sicilian Letter to the Man in the Moon”, ”Female nomad decadents of the Ferkel Circle”, Frida Uhl, F.T. Marinetti, ”Blast of the Vortex Campaign: Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats & Wyndham Lewis”, Vienna Actionism, Odd Nerdrum, Andreas Baader, Night of Death in Stammheim, Liesmac of the Deverills, Ola Hansson: Pariah among outcasts, Edward Munch, Martin Heidegger, Jean Genet, insurrection, suicide as an ultimate revolutionary act, Peryt Schou & the Awakening of the Logos, Arte de Maleficium: Works of Art as Regicide, Gustav Meyrink, Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald – Alraune des Jugendstils, Stefan Eggier, Mahlon Blair, Karl Hans Strobl, Degenerate Germany: Perversion for Profit in the Weimar Republic, Human Sacrifice at the Magic Island Haiti, ”William Buehler Seabrook: Transcending All Transgressions”, sadomasochism, tantric masters, ”Three Tongue-less Mouths” by C. Nordblom, Maya Deren, ”The Sacred as Transgression: Roger Callois”, ”Lupercalia to Liberalia: An Extract from The Antichrist Phallus” & ”The Rustic Rite of the Wolf-Owl” by Wyrd Isle Collective, ”Grave-robbing in the Towers of Silence with Sven Hedin”, “Disciples of ‘Bone: The Dispossessed Sons of Albion”, Citipati and Kangling, ”The Minstrels of Misrule”, the Green Man, ”Mythos of Masked Gods and Mummering Men”, Kenneth Grant, Styggelser: Black Metal Abominations, Externsteine, J.G. Ballard, The Panic Movement, the Promethean flame, gnosticism, Roland Topor, Fernando Arrabal, William Ouidhuis’ Katabol, Abefko Nord: the volcanic island Alnö, Saint Antonius, the werewolf in Scandinavian mythology, Perun, the Cult of Dionysos, ”Apocalyptic Collisions of Tradition & Modernity in a Perpetual Dark Age”, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, Foucault, Fulcanelli & the Mystery of the Cathedrals, ”Play the King for a day…”, ”Rex Nemorensis: The Killing of the Divine King”, The Golden Bough, The Cultural Terrorist Manifesto, Sturm und Drang, tjyvheder, prison life, mythopoetic imagination, Carl Larsson’s “Midvinterblot”, Gösta Werner’s “Midvinterblot”, the cult of Frö, Nordic death cults, Lucia – Progenitress of Demonic Entities, álfar, ”Narcocultura Necromanteia: Criminal Devotees among the Cult of the Holy Death”, Liber Falxifer, Necrosophy, Santa Muerte / San La Muerte, Nyhamnskifte, In the Hoofprints of the Nordic Devil, The Thirteenth School and the Black Priests of Satan, Carl Gustav Jung & the Shadow, Herr Ola i Trång & Gammal-Sjul, Kyrkogrim, Kvick i jord, Created from the Shadow of God, Svartkonst: Nordic necromancy & nigromancy, Hultkläppen, the Hand of Glory, Tjuvljus, The Spiritus Familiaris & the Arcanum of Human Blood, do-it-yourself instructions for the making of ”bjäran”, Paracelsus, ”Den Ryktbara Trollpackan Kapten Elins förmenta resor till Blåkulla och Bekantskap med Djefwulen”, Hyltén-Cavallius ”Wärend och Wirdarne”, småfiffel, The Arcane and Forbidden Wisdom of Nordic Sorcery found in the Scandinavian books of the black arts, rare archive photographs of Nordic sorcerers and witches, Sanguine Vociferation, Ichor, Aztec blood rituals, Vampirism at the Execution site, Red & White: Shakti & Shiva, menstrual blood magic, Significance of “Red / Blue / Purple Wings” to the 1%er, Mandragora Officinarum, “Stä blod”, Aristocracy of the Soul: the warrior poet Gabrielle D’Annunzio, the anarchic republic of Fiume, Kapala & Damaru, ”Pierre Drieu la Rochelle: Drawn Towards Death Like a Moth Towards the Flame”, cyanide, Chhinnamasta: Acephalic Goddess of Paradoxes, Tantric graveyard meditations, ”Åderlåtning & blodmat”, Doktor Mabuse, Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Macabre Ritual Feasts of Freemasonry, Consanguinity, Offerings to the Dark Gods, the Necromancy of Erichto, Nikanor Teratologen: Dissekerande definitioner, Frithjof Schoun, female domination, Hermann Hesse, Dalai Lama, Miguel Serrano, Mithraic mysteries, Apolitea, ”Saint Sebastian: The Twice Martyred”, The Pagan Ways of emperor Diocletian, Aum: Suck on Sarin, The Electronic Revolution, Word Virus, cultural terrorism, artificial intelligence, psychoactive plants, Cimicidäemones: Bedbugs making your deathbed, ångerstål, vådastål, Nordic Sorcery, Demons of the Flesh, Gamen, opium dreams, godetia, demonomania, simulacra, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, Ned Ludd, MK Ultra, Jünger’s “Psykonauterna” & “Visit to Godenholm”, Executioners swords towards Externsteine, Herman Wirth, Pervitin, perversion, murder weapons & tools of self-wasters as magic objects, borrowing bones from the dead, the Witch of Endor, “Omne malum ab Aquilone: All Malice travels with the North Wind”, The Wild Hunt, the Nine Galder songs, Gullveig / Heid, Canon episcopi, The Death-Horse of Horatius, Donar’s Oak, Ulvhednar, varg-i-veum, Vánagandr, LSD-25, Psilocybe Semilanceata, instruments made from human remains, Nattmannen, rackaren, The Corpse Hounds of Hel, Hector Meinhof, brewing beer on a severed human hand, the secret Vehmic courts, Barcode or Branding? Welcome idiot to the Grave New World!, Unfolding the Blood-Eagle, Metaphysics of Death, Mjältsjuka: The Black Bile, Descent into Hades, Ancient Greece, Man is a God in Ruins, leaderless resistance, Aghori devotees, Akeldama: Field of Blood, Pauper’s Graves Bonehouses as a Sanctum for Equality in Death, ”The Infernal Trinity: Reinterpreting the Sinister Imagery of the Prior Leschman Chapel” by Christopher Walton, ”Hornet och smörjan: Early Use of Psychedelic Drugs & Poisonous Plants among Witches & Sorcerers in Europe”, derangement of the senses, pitchfork-riders, fence-riders, Nordic shamanism, sabbatic craft, sublimation through filth, sacred prostitution, Jukka Siikala, dead rats, the path of Kaulamarga, ”Ecstatic Inferno Visions & Thanatomaniac Excesses: South-East Asia as seen through the feverish glass-eye of an exile-European death-seeker / The Documentary Photography of Stephen Bessac”, Hunting Asia, Deathlust, Maison Close, mondo movies, Pakito Bolino, Le Dernier Cri, Narok, Thai Buddhist hell theme parks, Asubha – meditations on the foulness of the human body, MS13, mortuary cults, Nicholas Roerich, Agni Yoga, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Tibet, Bodhisattva Maitreya, Bolshevik supersoldiers perfected through Kalachakra Tantra, ”Onwards to Shambhala: The Path towards merging with the divine fire”, the Occult Roots of Soviet, OGPU Special Department – Institute for Brain Studies & Psychic Activities, hypnosis, Barchenko, Gleb Bokii, Baron Ungern-Sternberg, the Bogd Khan, Kangchendzönga, Corto Maltese, Caucasian Ovcharkas feasting on corpses, Sven Hedin, ”Beast, Men & Gods” by Ferdinand Ossendowski, the Spear of Destiny, the Cult of the Leader & Soviet Godhood, Arctic Hysteria, pyramids near the Lake Seidozero, Yakov Blumkin, the Ancestral Research Bureau, Vril force, Odic Energy, Olaus Rudbeck & his Atlantean Uppsala, ”Among Fiddlers, Outcasts & Outlaws in Helsingia”, Karl-Max Fredrikson, the eternal return, Lim-Johan, horrid Hälsingland, Miguel Serrano, Nils-Fredrik Åkerberg & Delsboligan: ”an evil beast capable of the most heinous cruelty”, Kniven, ”Discovering a Runic Devil-Pact from the 19th Century”, the myth of Hårga, Raggare, ”Hultkläppen: A Menschenfeind in the Devil’s Service”, Pelle Schenell, Antinomian scatological tricksters – the two living legends known as ”Bajsmannen”, slagrutemän, Starsk-Pelle, Troll-Per och dömullen, det brutala Gnarp, the Nordic Yule Goat, ”Kali: The Black Mother” by Karl NE, The Art of David S. Herrerías, Karl Nachzehrer Eng – interview extract, Anckarström & the assassination of king Gustav III, freemasonry, spirit seers, Hertig Karl, Hypnosmord, ”Bones in the Wall: Enriqueta Martí – Vampire of Barcelona” by Martin Locker / Perennial Pyrenees, ”Hanns Heinz Ewers – Rider of the Germanic Nightside”, catacomb spectres, ”A Thousand Faces of Fear”, Psychonauts, smoking 77 cigarettes a day, ”The Conqueror Worm or Carrion for Worm?”, Intoxication and Art, Ewers & Alraune in Sundvall, Kristoffer Nilsson, Per Faxneld, Pan-Germanic Panic in India, Thugees, Left-Hand Path initiation, ”Bo Ignatius Cavefors – Landstigen på Dödens Ö”, Carsten Regild, Cavefors Förlag, Soma, Grymhetens Teater Dekadens, Arnold Böcklin, Infinity Land Press, Socialistische Patienten Kollektiv, Kommando Holger Meins, Odd Nerdrum, Caravaggio, the state-sanctioned murder of the Baader-Meinhof gang and their martyr hood, Christ in Gethsemane, J.H. Schönheit versus Karl XII, Oppressive Liberation Spirit – Rest in Power Sakevi Yokoyama, Self-Mortification, Ivan Agueli, Edward Munch, Arthur Moeller van der Bruck, Aleister Crowley, Thelema, Rites of the Dreamweapon: The Tremor Rite, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, Spirit Catcher, Prussian anarchists, ”Plutarchs of the Pandemic: Lords of All Fevers & Plague”, Walpurgisnacht, Ira Cohen, Brain Damage: Sorcery as an Art, PH Kerin, Marcus Hinze, Gilles de Rats, human sacrifice, Robert Nicholas Taylor, Haiti: The Magic Island, ”Chat Control”, Quimbanda, Exu, Jesus Malverde, Svartkonstböcker, skaldic mead, the Cathars, ”The Troubadour Turned Traitor: Ezra Pound”, Bhagavata Purana, Water as a Passageway into the Underworld, Sejd Laughter, the End of the World in Nordic mythology, Nastrand – the Corpse-Shore, sacred fountains, the Great Reset, hematophilia, blood play, Günter Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, guerilla tactics, The Key of Alocer, Rökkr, Cum Ingenti Priapo, pagan rites of fertility, ”The Descent of Odin” by Thomas Gray, The Galder of Death: Vallgalder, The Tree of Wyrd, ”The Nithing Pole”, land spirits, the sacrificial groves of the dead, George Sylvester Viereck, Nikola Tesla, Unamerican activities, European gothic horror literature, social credit, Daemonium Aeternus, Euronymous, Sepulchral Noise, Svarta Cirkeln, grave desecrations, death magick, Wandervögel, Emanuel Swedenborg, Julereien, De Dödas Julotta, ”Lycanthropia” by Adam Parfrey, the Equinox Event, ”On Sacrifice” by Tancredi Valeri, ”The Last Words of Louis Lingg”, Venus in Furs, Sumerian kingship, Against Control, Techniques for Cutting Up the Leviathan of Modernity, Reinventing Urban Sorcery, Subverting and Disrupting the NWO Control Mechanisms, heathen hit squads, mental illness, post-war eugenics in the Swedish demonocratic state, Trevor Brown’s Antichrist, Arturo Reghini, neo-Pythagoreanism, Bror Gadelius, complete disorientation of the senses, dissidents, heretics, deviated carnal encounters, Apotropeism, antinomianism, Guido Crepax, Alfred Kubin, Valerie der Phantasten, väggmadammer, European folklore, ”Living in the Reign of Phantoms… Saluting Death in a Rain of Bullets”, Iconoclasta, Nihilismo, Propagation by the Deed, Side Real Press, Black Widow’s Web Erotica, Michel Houllebecq, desert wanderers, Arthur Machen, Dragon Rouge, active imagination, the Revolutionary Cathechism, Devil Worship, necromantic rites, suicidal pacts, a world making its last death twitches….

SOUND:
Metgumbnerbone, The New Blockaders, Ward Phillips, Vivenza, G.I.S.M, Criminal Party, Grim, White Hospital, Basilisk, John Duncan, Paul Hurst, Beast 666 Tapes, Linekraft, LSD (Japan), John Murphy, Lily Vice & Lust Vessel, Nord, Ultra, Art Into Life, Ramleh, Sir Ashleigh Grove, Organum, Con-Dom, The Grey Wolves, Opera for Infantry, Death in June, Allerseelen, Zero Kama, Korpses Catatonic, Cthulhu Records, Masstishaddhu, SPK, Citipati, Peter Zincken, Sedayne, Nåstrond, Thurnemans, Salaligan, Klinik (the Swedish), Hyoscyamus Niger, Amebix, Hijokaidan, Irkallian Oracle, D-C Pöbeln, Brighter Death Now, Spacemen 3, Agitation Free, Mortuus, Genocide Organ, Johnny Bode, Lapp-Lisa, Tom Zacharias, Blood Axis, Blood Ov Thee Christ, Alfarmania, Masami Akita & ZSF Produkt, Tony Conrad, Tone Generator, RJF, Joy Division, Rune Lindblad, Åke Hodell, Geto Boys, Etat Brut, The Curfew Recordings, Tower Transmissions, Come Organisation, H.N.A.S, Mixed Band Philanthropist, Bladder Flask, Leif Thuresson, Galme, Asmus Tietchens, Noisextra radio show, Putrefier / Birthbiter, Die Form / Bain Total, Club Moral, Iannis Xenakis, Terry Riley, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Dadarotator, Kickback, Survival Unit, Bizarre Uproar, Striktlickers, United Dairies, Brainticket, AQM, S.K.V. Null, Premature Ejaculation, Aghast, The Folding Staircase, Monte Cazazza, Aussaat, Totalitär, Beast 666 Tapes / Hate Song, Clandestine Blaze, Vice Squad, Night Wolf, O’Nancy in French, Blod (Gnarp), Lille Roger, Missbrukarna, Samla Mammas Manna, Cromagnon, Taj Mahal Travellers, CM von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren, Coil, Citipati, Martin Bladh, Perdition Hearse, the true Mayhem, Blue Öyster Cult, Blasphemy, Sodom, Treriksröset, Proiekt Hat, Taint, Slave State, Ernte, Psychic TV, Monte Cazazza, Angus MacLise: Dreamweapon - The Ascension of Saint Angus of Kathmandu, LaMonte Young , Marian Zazeela, John Cale, The Dream Synicate / The Theatre of Eternal Music, Tony Conrad, The Velvet Underground, Corpse Molestation, Bestial Warlust, Destroyer 666, Black Hole, Mortuary Drape, Paul Chain, the Sodality, The Third Ear Band, Fata Morgana, Master’s Hammer, Hiram Gordon Wells, Vagina Dentata Organ, Unkommuniti / Black Dwarf, R&D Group 28, Throbbing Gristle, Perdition Hearse and others.

CINEMA:
Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, Invocation of My Demon-Brother, Alraune, The Student from Prague, The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, Blood On Satan’s Claw, The Wicker Man, Roger Corman’s E.A. Poe adaptions, Eyes of Fire / Cry Blue Sky, Born of Fire, Wickedness of the Wyrdful Ways: Obscure Treasures from the Catacombs of Occult & Otherworldly Cinema, ”The Devil’s Devilry” (Ken Russell’s the Devils), Le Feu Follet, ”Folk horror – a Eurocentric phenomena?”, ”This ain’t the summer of love” – Altamont & Performance, Incubus, Right Brain Video, Junk Films – the Collected Short Shockumentaries of Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, …hanno cambiato faccia, Baba Yaga, Don’t Deliver Us From Evil, Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri, Faccia di Spia, Sukkubus – the Devil in the Body, psycho-sexual arthouse cinema of oneiromantic libertines, La sorcière, Häxan – Witchcraft through the Ages, Trans-Europe-Express, Belladonna of Sadness, L’Eden et après, Glissements progresses du plaisir, Louis Mallet, Det Sjunde Inseglet, Ingmar Bergman, Survival Research Laboratories, The Other Side of Madness, Hagazussa, A Field in England, Kill List, High Rise, Åsa-Nisse, Viva La Muerte!, Cinema as Resistance in Fascist Spain, I will walk like a crazy horse, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Who Can Kill a Child?, Last House on Dead End Street, David Cronenberg, Brion Gysin, Bizarre / The Secrets of Sex, Anthony Balch, Red Baron Entertainment, Jack Smith, Stan Brakhage, Coto de Caza, Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs, Freaks, Towers Open Fire, The Bell from Hell, The Killer of Dolls, Murder in a Blue World, Eloy de la Iglesia, Cannibal Man, the Glass Ceiling, Animales Racionales, Themroc, Beast in the Heat, Leon Klimovsky, Paul Naschy, Night of the Walpurgis, The Werewolf & the Yeti, The People Who Own the Dark, Horror Rises from the Tomb, Rebellion of the Dead, Abefko Nord, Hunchback of the Morgue, Faust: eine Deutsche Volkssage, Night of the Sorcerers, ”Shape-shifters & the Silver Globe”, Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittenbach, Andrzej Zulawski, Diabel, Possession, On the Silver Globe, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Black Sabbath, Viy, Tilbury, Rat Savior, Svesto Mesto, the New Wave of Czechoslovak Cinema, True Gore, The Cremator / Spalova mrtvol, Lars von Trier’s Riget, Valerie & Her Week of Wonders, Kurototage: Black Lizard, Afraid to Die, Móju: Blind Beast, Femina Ridens, The Rite of Love and Death, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, The Annunciation, How to Become a God, Dark Shadows, Blade Runner, Night Tide, Invocation of My Demon’s Brother, In Satan’s Name, Konstantin Sergeyevich Lopushansky, Letters from a Dead Man, Visitor to a Museum, Andrej Tarkovskij, Stalker, History of the Arkanar Massacre, Satanico Pandemonium, Alucarda, The Mansion of Madness, Lunacy, El Topo, Fando y Lis, Legend of the Witches, The Judgement of Albion, Nosferatu – eine Symphonie des Grauens, ”Arcane Incantations: The Alchemic Cinema of Pupi Avati”, Zeder, The House with the Laughing Windows, Saló – The 120 Days of Sodom, L’arcano incantatore, Arcana, Luis Buñuel, Robin Redbreast, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, True Gore, Penda’s Fen, Scum, Made in Britain, Apocalypse Now, Gösta Werner’s Midvinterblot and more beyond what the eye perceives.

The overwhelming interest in the book has resulted in the first hundred copies selling out within less than a day.

File under: Korm Plastics / Netherlands Art Film / Video Sound / Music Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Periodicals Occult / Esoterica Crime / Violence Eros Fetishism / BDSM Fiction / Poetry Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Performance / Dance / Theater

A Tribute To Edwin Denby
Poems by Edwin Denby; artwork by Alex Katz; photographs by Rudy Burckhardt

1983, English
Softcover (staple-bound w. program insert), unpaginated, 23 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Edwin Denby Memorial Fund / New York

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A rare publication privately issued by the Edwin Denby Memorial Fund, New York, on the occasion of a tribute presented by the St. Mark's Church Poetry and Danspace Projects, and the Eye and Ear Theater, Inc., in association with the Dance Collection, The New York Public Library, in November 1983, shortly after the passing of the great modern poet and dance critic. With cover artwork by Alex Katz, the book includes four poems by Edwin Denby accompanied by photographs by Rudy Burckhardt. Laid in is a program for "An Evening for Edwin Denby," Nov. 2, 1983 held at The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, including poetry readings, tributes, and dances. Participants included Bernadette Mayer, Bob Holman, Lucinda Childs, John Ashbery, Douglas Dunn, and Anne Waldman, among others. The NY Public Library tributes include speeches, films, and an exhibition of artworks, with participants inc. Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Red Grooms, Paul Taylor, John Ashbury, George Jackson, Mimi Gross, Alex Katz, Marcia Siegel, Rudy Burckhardt, Joe Brainard, and many more.

Edwin Denby (1903—1983) was a modernist poet and the most important and influential American dance critic of this century. Earning a degree in gymnastics in Vienna, his reviews and essays, which he wrote for almost thirty years, were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his subject. He was also a poet of distinction — a friend to Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and John Ashbery. Though many of his poems are sonnets, his improvisational attention to urban movement plays against the form’s constraint. He is the author of the poetry collections In Public, In Private (1948), Mediterranean Cities (1956), Snoring in New York (1974), The Complete Poems (1986), and Dance Writings and Poetry (1998). His reviews and essays on ballet appeared in Modern Music, the New York Herald Tribune, Ballet, and Dance Magazine, and he wrote two critical books on the art: Looking at the Dance (1949) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets (1965). Denby’s honors included a Guggenheim Fellowship. He died in 1983.

Good copy overall but with some bug nibbles to the front cover, light wear and tanning to extremities.

File under: Merce Cunningham Alex Katz Rudy Burckhardt Lucinda Childs Douglas Dunn Red Grooms Joe Brainard Mimi Gross Edwin Denby Bernadette Mayer Bob Holman John Ashbery Douglas Dunn Anne Waldman Edwin Denby Memorial Fund / New York Concrete Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Poetry

Pissed Off Paris aka Paris Spleen
Charles Baudelaire, David Cauchi

2023, English
Softcover, 186 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Maverick Press / Whanganui

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Pissed off Paris is an artist's book and artist's translation by New Zealand artist David Cauchi of Baudelaire's Pissed Off Paris aka Paris Spleen, a collection of 50 prose poems composed between 1855 and his death in 1867. Published posthumously in 1869, Pissed off Paris is Baudelaire's final word on the subjects that obsessed him during his short life: the city, the crowd, the plight of the poor, the role of the poet, sex, drugs. Baudelaire was the first truly modern poet, and in these prose poems he found a modern form for his modern subject matter.

New Zealand artist David Cauchi's translation vividly captures Baudelaire's lyricism and irony. It conveys the many tones of the poems' surprisingly wide range of genres - from traditional love poems and social commentary to science fiction, horror, and comedy.

Cauchi has produced a suite of 70 drawings to complement the poems.

Introduction to Pissed off Paris by New Zealand poet Chris Tse, in the form of a poem rather than an academic essay.
Designed by Rose Miller.

File under: David Cauchi Charles Baudelaire Chris Tse Maverick Press / Whanganui Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Eros Painting Drawing Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry

AdminAdmin Issue#1
Edited by Rebecca Holborn and Guy Benfield

2024, English
Softcover, unpaginated, 29.5 x 20.5 cm
Published by Self Published / Melbourne

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AdminAdmin Magazine is a collaboration between Guy Benfield and Rebecca Holborn. The first issue includes work by TRANCE ZISK, Deep Text About Nothing, DAN MUNN, LUKE STETTNER, REBECCA HOLBORN, DAVID NOONAN, JONATHAN MEESE, LUCIO AURI, DAVID ALLEN, CHUCK YATSUK, JUSTIN RANCOURT, LAMA Entertainment, PENELOPE LATTÉ, STAR SEED, Le Chiffre, DAVID M THOMAS, EIRIK MIKKELBORG, ADS Donaldson / Mary Low / ADS Donaldson.

The magazine is loosely centred around instinct and the mind... Intuition, joy, irreverence, freedom and spaciousness of the mind.

"What are you doing coyote? I am a terminal slut!

File under: Guy Benfield A.D.S. Donaldson David Noonan Jonathan Meese David Thomas Lucio Auri Luke Stettner Mary Low Eirik Mikkelborg Guy Benfield Rebecca Holborn Dan Munn Justin Rancourt Chuck Yatsuk Mary Low Eirik Mikkelborg Self Published / Melbourne Australian Art Fiction / Poetry Art Theory / Essay Periodicals Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Painting Conceptual Art Film / Video

The Languages of Psyche : Mind and Body in Enlightenment Thought
Edited by G. S. Rousseau

1992, English
Softcover, 494 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by University of California Press / Berkley

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First 1991 edition.

The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the 'long eighteenth century,' from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medicine, philosophy, literature, and everyday society. No other recent book provides such an in-depth, suggestive resource for philosophers, literary critics, intellectual and social historians, and all who are interested in Enlightenment studies.

Very Good copy, light wear.

File under: G. S. Rousseau University of California Press / Berkley Philosophy Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Drugs / Psychedelia Sociology / Politics Art Out-of-print / Rare Psychoanalysis

Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de siècle
by Chris Bongie

1991, English
Softcover, 162 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Stanford University Press / Palo Alto

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First 1991 edition.

"A challenging study that will be welcomed by scholars in the fields of French, English, Italian, and comparative literature, as well as by his- torians of anthropology and colonialism, and readers interested in theories of postmodernism. This is a book whose time is exactly right: a fin-de-siècle meditation on the end of modernity, marked by a keen nostalgia for a past (and an elsewhere) that it knows to be already lost."—Richard Sieburth, New York University

"It brings together, as few works do, literature with history, criticism of aesthetic production with a subtle political consciousness. It makes one understand the colonial implications of modernity as nothing else does. It is essential for the re-evaluation of anthropology and is a powerful addition to the crucial philosophical issue of Alterity."—Michael Taussig, New York University

"This book focuses on the literature of exoticism at the turn of the last century and how it foreshadows our own fin de siècle. Earlier writers of exoticism had turned away from the West and its modernity, rejecting the social changes caused by industrialization and displacing onto "savage" or "primitive" cultures their aspirations for political freedom. By the turn of the century, however, European nations had reduced vast areas of the globe to colonial status: this global exportation of Western cultural norms and economic systems had a critical effect on the literature of exoticism.

The author concentrates on four writers-Jules Verne, Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, and Joseph Conrad-although he touches on a number of other writers, and even painters, like Paul Gauguin. Making an explicit link between turn-of-the-century exoticism and the present day, the book concludes with a critical assessment of Pier Paolo Pasolini's neo-exoticist attachment to a supposedly revolutionary Third World in his poetry and literary criticism. The book's critical stance is noteworthy, drawing its basic assumptions from pensiero debole, the "weak thought" of the contemporary Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo."

NF copy.

File under: Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Gauguin Chris Bongie Jules Verne Pierre Loti Victor Segalen Joseph Conrad Pier Paolo Pasolini Gianni Vattimo Stanford University Press / Palo Alto Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Out-of-print / Rare Art Fiction / Poetry