In a yearly ritual the citizens of ancient Athens chased a couple in wedding regalia through the streets under a hail of stones, to shouts of "Out with sickness and famine! In with health and wealth!" The broken bodies were left to decompose outside the city gates. Normally the victims would come from among society's downtrodden or outcasts, and exchange their lives for a year of luxury at the city's expense. But in defiance of tradition, and as an expression of protest, a poet from an aristocratic family volunteers her flawless 30-year-old body. This is her story.

The New Moon With the Old Moon in Her Arms: A True Story Assembled from Scholarly Hearsay

Literature & Fiction

Molinaro, Ursule

United States

McPherson & Co

Movie Starring the Late Cary Grant and an As-Yet Unsigned Actress

Ahern, Tom

History & Criticism

<p>Schneemann's remarkable "More Than Meat Joy" documents a large portion of this performance artist's career: 1958 to 1977. The book is particularly rich because it uses the artist's own documentation: photos, notes, sketches, commentary, and script-like documents. Hardback, 285 pp. cloth over boards with a sewn binding. Over 300 b&amp;w illustrations. Released with dustjacket. With Chronology, Bibliography, Filmography.</p>

More Than Meat Joy: Complete Performance Works & Selected Writings

Schneemann, Carolee

McPherson, Bruce R.

Humor & Entertainment

Toward a phenomenology of written art

Toward a Phenomenology of Written Art

Burns, Gerald

Likely Stories: A Collection of Untraditional Fiction

This 1981 anthology of six long stories, novellas, and extracts from novels provides a valuable overview of contemporary fiction by some of today's most adventurous writers. It is an especially useful text on post-Modern fiction for college courses, and a good sampling of quite a few books which subsequently appeared from McPherson & Company. The pieces included are: "Snow" by Ascher/Straus; "The Sale of What Remains" by Frederick Ted Castle, from his novel, Anticipation; "Brothers of the Tiger" by Emilio De Grazia; "Oh Brother" by J. Eigo; "Russian Tales" by Robert Kelly, from his out-of-print collection, Cat Scratch Fever; and "Sheep" by Pamela Zoline, from her collection, The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories.

MCPHERSON

Literary

Brakhage Scrapbook: Collected Writings 1964 to 1980/Signed Editon

Brakhage, Stan

How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art and Agriculture

MARTIN, Henry

Baruchello, Gianfranco

Arts & Photography

<p>How to Imagine is an unusual meditation about the intersection of personal space - the imagination - with the natural spaces and forces that surround and nurture it. An artist and a writer collaborate here to examine the meanings, the images, and the fantasies implicit to digging into the earth. For a number of years Gianfranco Baruchello has operated a farm outside Rome, a farm which may be said to have produced paintings, films, photographs, and books, as well as the more common agricultural products. With his friend Henry Martin, Baruchello undertakes an investigation of that farm marked by the engaging wit and attention to detail of a natural raconteur. The narrative proceeds along its way to unravel many of the philosophical and formal assumptions that underlie contemporary art, and becomes a "testing [of] the power of art against the power if the much more potent social structures that stand adjacent to it." --- from book's cover</p>

Henry., Martin

Gianfranco Baruchello

After twelve years a young woman returns home to settle accounts with her doformed twin sister Laura. But Laura is inexplicably absent, and the visiting daughter's parents are enmeshed in their own emotional warfare. With the deceptive simplicity that has become Molinaro's literary hallmark, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation as the parents and visiting daughter take their positions around the traditional family table, with its centerpiece, an elegant arrangement of white roses.

Positions With White Roses: A Novel

Written when the author was about 25 years old (the writing spanned three years), Anticipation is a book full of wisdom and the laughter of youth. It could be characterized as the emergence into the world of an intriguing mentality: like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it contains, as the author says, "all my youthful revery." For his discursive exploitation of all kinds of narrative devices, the author has been compared to other markedly innovative writers, such as Melville and Sterne. But Frederick Ted Castle's book is really unlike any other, and almost necessarily Anticipation waited eighteen years after its completion in 1966 to be first published. It was been re-released in the Recovered Classics series in 1996.    While full of poetry, it is written in a lively and readable prose style. Although abandoning many conventions, it affords compensating pleasures. Sometimes referred to as an "epic novel," Anticipation redefines both the epic and the novel: the character called "myself" becomes a modern hero not because his exploits are heroic but because of the scrutiny devoted to the interior of his psyche, especially as refracted through portraits of friends. Upon its first appearance, the reviewer for The New York Times Book Review predicted: "Anticipation will last. It is a presence one wants to have around..."

Anticipation: A Novel

Frederick Ted Castle

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