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A review of HIDDEN AGENDAS: UNREPORTED POETICS, edited by Louis Armand, featuring Ali Alizadeh, Livio Beloi, Jeremy Davies, Stephan Delbos, Michel Delville, Johanna Drucker, Michael Farrel, Allen Fisher, D.J. Huppatz, Vincent Katz, Stephen Muecke, Jena Osman, Michael Rothenberg, Lou Rowan, Kyle Schlesinger, Robert Shepperd, Stephanie Strickland, John Wilkinson (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2010). Reprinted from BIG BRIDGE, … Continue reading
ON THE WRITING OF LOUIS ARMAND, by JANE LEWTY (author of Bravura Cool). Republished from Thresholds, ed. David Vichnar (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2011). Image: Jean-Michel Basquiat, ‘Untitled (Head),’ 1983. Reading across Louis Armand’s poetry is to hover over a landscape that shows “the cartography of remote sensing.” Dense with syntactic possibility, the poems nevertheless resist … Continue reading
OR, TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT BRITISH ENIGMA (Part 2) There is much usefulness in taking the following remark made by the author herself as a possible key to understanding Brooke-Rose’s fiction: I deal in discourses, in the discourses of the world, political, technological, scientific, psychoanalytical, philosophical, ideological, social, emotional, and all the rest, so that … Continue reading
OR, TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT BRITISH ENIGMA (Part ONE) Adapted from VLAK 3 (May 2012): 81-94. Photo: Christine Brooke-Rose, 1964 “The Great British Experimentalist You’ve Never Heard Of” was the title of Natalie Ferris’ obituary published in The Guardian two days after Christine Brooke-Rose’s death on March 21, 2012. Apart from other issues, Ferris’ graceful … Continue reading
Although a late starter, publishing his first book no earlier than the revolutionary year, 1989 (already having reached the age of forty), with over 16 books over the next twenty years, Michal Ajvaz, novelist, poet, essayist and translator, has been one of the most prolific and influential Czech writers of the post-communist period. Although an … Continue reading
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