Drama. This book contains a long drama, The Precipice, and two shorter plays--Act without Words for the Hand and Who Will Crack First. Renowned experimentalist Raymond Federman was born in France in 1928 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1947. He has published eight novels, four volumes of poetry, four books of criticism, and numerous articles, essays, poems, plays, and stories. His novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. SPD carries a number of books by Raymond Federman including AUNT RACHEL'S FUR, THE VOICE IN THE CLOSET and MY BODY IN NINE PARTS.

The Precipice and Other Catastrophes

Literature & Fiction

Federman, Raymond

Dramas & Plays

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Poetry. "A few lines cannot do justice to this sumptuous collection for poetry lovers, FAMILY ARCHAEOLOGY is a feast. Exquisite smaller works peep out among the overwhelming plentitudes of the three long sequences that make up most of the book; but these are so compelling, original and generous--not to say witty, sexy and moving--that each well deserves a full-length essay of appreciation"--Harry Matthews. Ian Monk was born near London but now lives in France. He is a poet and translator and has been a member of Oulipo since 1998.

FAMILY ARCHAEOLOGY

Monk, Ian

Poetry

Poetry. "Kenneth Goldsmith is without doubt the leading conceptual poet of this time. His poetry, which draws from Fluxus, Dada, and conceptual art traditions, is clever and self aware. With now classics such as FIDGET, SOLILOQUY, and DAY (all available form SPD), he has made poetry out of the mundane and when reading his work one is forced to reconsider the stakes and the measurements of aesthetic practice. THE WEATHER, a collection of weather reports, is one more test of poetry. And what is most striking about this book is that it aces the test. There is something wonderfully celebratory and shockingly pleasant and stimulatingly interesting about reading day after day of weather gone by"--Juliana Spahr.

The Weather

Goldsmith, Kenneth

Poetry. Make Now Press of Los Angeles and Atlas Press of London have released a revised and updated edition of The OULIPO COMPENDIUM in a limited edition print run of 1,000 copies to be released from Los Angeles and 1,000 copies to be released from London. THE OULIPO COMPENDIUM is a dictionary of mathematical constraints used in the composition of literature. The Oulipo's foremost concern has been to devise formal constraints and compose a few examples of each for the express purpose of pointing to the potential these formalisms create. Oulipian constraints have been responsible for some of the most original works of literature ever produced.

Oulipo Compendium

History & Criticism

Poetry. "From the hilarious univocalisms of "Homage to Georges Perec" to the dizzying "information" provided in the literally falling "Twin Towers," Ian Monk demonstrates that Oulipo is by no means only--or even primarily--a French import; on the contrary, its possibilities for Anglophone poets are enormous. Monk's sheer inventiveness and intellectual agility, his verbal wit and prosodic skill will have you chuckling over his "Snowballs" and marveling at his anagrammatic threnodies. Writings for the Oulipo is a book to savor--good to the last drop!"--

Writings for the Oulipo

Cultural Writing. Essays. SEANCE is a volume of readings and papers on the subject of the condition of language and narrative in contemporary writing. Pairing poetic formalists and sex writers, language poets and pataphyscial researchers, the collection examines the translation of the ordinary into words, from the extraordinary writing of sex to the supposed disappearance of the author. Further sections are on the phenomenological training of the person, radical artifice, and the magic of letters freed from the grid of the page. Among the short stories, poems and essays are texts by Charles Bernstein, Dodie Bellamy, Christian B"k, Dennis Cooper, Robert Gluck, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shelley Jackson, Ben Marcus, Eileen Myles, and Joan Retallack.

Seance

Poetry. "Stan Apps' INFO RATION collects many of this young talent's very best pieces...I have seen them all--quasi list poems, sonnets in distortion, telepathic TV contraptions, poems written during nuclear attack on Los Angeles--and I pronounce them good"--Kevin Killian.

Info Ration

Apps, Stan

Poetry. Joseph Thomas' STRONG MEASURES appropriates the formalist anthology of the same name, constructing poems under constraint, offering new forms in place of the dry and tired. It is the second of ten perfect bound, chapbook length books from Make Now Press, printed in an edition of 330.

Strong Measures

Thomas, Joseph

Poetry.The latest in Goldsmith's transcription and defamiliarization efforts, TRAFFIC exhibits the author's signature mode: remediating found texts and crossing artifice with everyday life". "In both form and content, Kenneth Goldsmith's TRAFFIC recalls nothing so much as the extended tracking shot in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week-End, and the book's audacious sustain elicits the same series of responses: surprise, admiration, amusement, incredulity, horror, recognition, terror, boredom, impatience, awe...."--Craig Dworkin.

Traffic

Poetry. Raphael Rubinstein's THE AFTERGLOW OF MINOR POP MASTERPIECES, a collection of constraint-based poems is the first in a series of ten perfect bound, chapbook length books from Make Now Press, printed in a limited edition of 330.

The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces

Rubinstein, Raphaël

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