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Wheeler, a little black bear, has a wondrous dream that sheds light on a real life predicament. This picture book is illustrated with photographs of an imaginary world animated by hand puppets and stuffed animals.

Enemy in the Country is the first English translation of this fictional book by Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing (1872-1933), who trained and served as a physician in a military hospital in the First World War. Lessing was assassinated by the Nazis during their rise to power. The collection of short stories, satires, novella, and poetry is unique in Lessing's writings. Set during the1923-1925 French occupation of the Ruhr, they are powerful ...

Part epic poem, part social commentary, part jazz history, part instrument analysis, & very largely a cataclysmic whirlwind homage to John Coltrane's tune 'One Down, One Up.' In this hybridic surge, Heller ramps-up, enabling language to converse, whir, & dive, with the longest & arguably the most thrilling Coltrane solo ever recorded.A short Hinge poetic-linguistic exploration by the creator of Hinge Theory Poetics, Heller Levinson.

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Pierre Coran is one of Belgium's most renowned poets who has been honored and has won most of Belgium's literary awards. His fables and children stories have been translated into more than a dozen languages and are published around the world. This amusing grouping of poems, though written to be enjoyed by children, are like all of Coran's fables meant to be understood and enjoyed by all ages. This bilingual, full color illustrated edition, is ...

The next chapter of Heller Levinson's Hinge Theory poetics. A linguistic exploration that continues to inspire in both the art and literary fields as more articles and essays have been written about Hinge and incorporated into differing fields of artistic endeavors. "Shattering the Comfortably Unchallenged, the Suffocatively Habituated, the Narcoleptically Inert, LinquaQuake deracinates our cherished conventions while nurturing us with explora...

Prolific poet, award-winning translator, esteemed critic--"certainly the best poetry critic in sight, " according to Lawrence Ferlinghetti--essayist and journalist, editor and novelist, Stephen Kessler has been a constant creative force in the American literary counterculture for more than fifty years. Rooted in his native California yet belonging to no particular school or movement, Kessler has absorbed and remixed the influence of poets as d...

This collection of Jean-Pierre Rosnay's poems brings together selections from all four of his major collections and a handful of previously unpublished poems. They include the far reaches of Rosnay's technique and imagination, from the lapidary delicacy and romantic sensibility of "Refrain" to the prose-composition and social awareness of the "Political Poem, " which is as profoundly rooted in current French multiculturalism -- and nearly as f...

How Our Bodies Learned is Marilyn Kallet's seventh book of lyric poems, offering a collection of love poems and sensual blues that enfold more difficult poems of witness. Each of the three chapters takes a hard look at historical events: the terrorist attack in Paris, November 2015, gun violence in Orlando and San Bernardino, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. But Kallet is also a poet of dreams and humor. She reassures her readers with song...

Since I introduced Pierre Coran (pseud. Eugene Delaisse) to my anglophone readers with the collection Fables in a Modern Key (2014), my translation of his Fables a l'air du temps, this whimsical octogenarian celebrated throughout his native Belgium as a preeminent "children's poet"-- though only, in truth, for the most precocious of children!-- has imperceptibly grown a year older and added to his already enviable list of literary honors. I ad...

The new poetics of Hinge Theory. Now further explored in this fourth book by Hinge pioneer Heller levinson-has been attracting visual artists as well as younger poets- drawn to the musicality and unlimited variations possible with the Hinge conception of poetry. Whoosh's, How Much Of's, Gerundial Geists, Four-Plays, Accidentals, Fecundating Rotational Clusters, MUPAE's (Mutational Update Panel Animation Extenders), In The _ Of _ 's, Fusion Rec...

The third collection of wide ranging prose poems by John Olson to be published by Black Widow Press: Dada Budapest. Not familiar with his works? Check out Backscatter: New and Collected Poems and Larynx Galaxy. Either one will get you hooked on John's imaginative and frolicking prose poems. A growing body of work truly unlike any other writer you have encountered. Author of eight published volumes of poetry and 4 novels, his poetry, prose poem...

The first full length translation into English of Peret's Le Grand Jeu (The Big Game, first published in 1928). Benjamin Peret (1899-1959) was one of the founders of Surrealism (with Andre Breton and Louis Aragon). The Big Game was Peret's best known work of the time and is still in print in France 80 years later.

Multi-award winning poet Amina Said was born in Tunis and has lived in Paris since 1978. Her work, though translated into German, Turkish, Arabic, and Italian, has only seen snippets translated into English. Poet Marilyn Hacker has edited and translated a survey of Said's poems from the last ten years in a fully bilingual anthology. The first survey of Said's works to appear in the English language.

A survey of the poems and writings of Habib Tengour. Though widely published in Europe and North Africa, this is the first English language volume of his works to be published. With over 19 books published to date he is one of the Maghreb regions most important poets and commentators. Tengour, born in Algeria, divides his time between Paris and Constantine. Pierre Joris has been one of Tengour's most active translators into the English language.

A memoir in verse that explores the outer reaches of truth: of memory, language and art. Loosely based on the tripartite structure of The Divine Comedy, this poem appears as a simple memoir in lyrical and immediately accessible language, yet it works by accumulation to question the very fact of memory and the foundations of truth and identity. This is a poem that reads as easily as a memoir but which is as dense with allusion as one of The Can...

Niyi Osundare, one of Africa's most prominent poets and resident of New Orleans, La was one of the many whose life was caught in the destructive force of hurricane Katrina. Rescued by a neighbor with a boat, losing all that he had, exiled without even an identification to several states, he returned to rebuild his life and house. Written over the l

from stone this running, Heller Levinson's next installment in his explorations of Hinge Theory and poetics, expands on the concepts presented in his previous book. Smelling Mary. Hinge Theory explores the intrinsic musicality of language, aligned in respect to some of the precepts of Ezra Pound. This unfolding Linguistic Destruction, Construction & Reconstruction implies prodigious ramifications affecting and extending not only to literature ...

Marilyn Kallet's The Love That Moves Me is a collection of love poems inspired by Dante's Inferno, as well as by Rimbaud's relationship with Verlaine, and by Orpheus and Euridice. These days Beatrice and Dante find themselves in France, Indiana, and in East Tennessee, bickering at Nascar. Love is the unifying factor, song is the vehicle, descent is a constant, with re-emergence thankfully part of the narrative. Surrealist humor abounds as Benj...

A wide ranging survey of the poetry of Dave Brinks. Following his critically acclaimed book, The Caveat Onus, this book will help introduce Brinks to those just discovering his works and those who are asking what else has he done over the past ten years. Introduction by Andrei Codrescu.