Concrete Fiction. Offered here for the first time in book form are important selections from Richard Kostelanetz's esteemed experimental texts. Minimal Fictions encompasses some 400 stories which, taken together, form a fictional world that is as visually surprising as it is verbally resonant. It should be emphasized that there is a clear difference between the minimalism practiced by Carver and Barthelme and the truly radical minimalism--analogous to that devised by musicians and painters in the 1960's--of someone like Richard Kostelanetz, who since 1970 has produced a number of highly original fictions in the forms of lines, numbers, one-, two-, and three-word sequences, and other severely attenuated elements. (Larry McCaffery).

Minimal Fictions

Literature & Fiction

Kostelanetz, Richard

United States

Asylum Arts

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. In these pages we are confronted with the poet in midair, the Walrus Voluptuary, a tree that becomes a woman, a man with the head of a black swan. The poet's resonant voice convokes a cycle of spellbinding images, both concrete and elusive, that are, indeed, flares burning in the counterfeit night.

Catafalques

Basso, Eric

Poetry

Unscheduled Departures: The Asylum Anthology of Short Fiction

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.

The Golem Triptych

Dramas & Plays

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.

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Asylum Annual 1993

BOYD, GREG

A volume of fiction built upon parables, satires, paradoxes and mystic teaching tales. "The Sufis and their predecessors have used the parable and the 'teaching tale' extensively as one of their modes of contemplation. This is similar to the way Zen has employed parables and paradoxes -- in trying to impart insight that is different from that produced by normal intellect.

Parabola: Shorter Fictions

Martin, Joe

Short Stories & Anthologies

Fiction. In the seven new stories that comprise INSTEAD OF CONFUSION, Stephen -Paul Martin continues his ongoing critique of American popular culture, politics, and morality, while simultaneously exploring the boundaries of history, language and fiction itself. Stephen-Paul Martin is the author of nineteen books of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, including The Gothic Twilight, which was nominated for the National Critikcs Circle award in 1993. Between 1980 and 1996 he edited Central Park magazine in New York City.

Instead of Confusion

Martin, Stephen-Paul

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. Its strange cast of characters do their best to unravel the fabric of expectations. Basso has created a world that is darkly comic, sinister, moving and, in the end, unforgettably disturbing.

Bartholomew Fair

Lappin's translations achieve remarkable semantic faithfulness without sacrificing the musicality of the verse. French text en face. This edition of Baudelaire includes an introduction, translator's forward, notes on each of the translations, and indexes and first lines in both French and English.

Echoes of Baudelaire: Selected Poems

BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES

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Minimal Fictions

Catafalques

Unscheduled Departures: The Asylum Anthology of Short Fiction

The Golem Triptych

The Golem Triptych

Asylum Annual 1993

Parabola: Shorter Fictions

Instead of Confusion

Bartholomew Fair

Echoes of Baudelaire: Selected Poems