Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 04/27/2023
“I cover Steinberg with adjectives, which are like vibrations—multiple, rapid—that this lively oeuvre arouses in me.” Roland Barthes’s consideration of the drawings of New York artist Saul Steinberg—originally an artist book posthumously published in France in 1983—is historically important as one of the last remaining books in Barthes’s oeuvre to be translated into English. all[…]
Imprint: Uitgeverij
Published: 07/21/2022
paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic is the definitive edition of the grand Klingon epic of Kahless the Unforgettable (qeylIS lIjlaHbogh pagh). The story of Kahless is a tale of legendary proportions comparable to those of ancient heroes Hercules, Ulysses, and Gilgamesh. Betrayed by his brother and witness to his father’s brutal slaying, Kahless is pitted against[…]
Imprint: Tangent
Published: 07/27/2023
Can attending to poetic form help us imagine a radical politics and bridge the gap between pressing contemporary political concerns and an ancient literature that often seems steeped in dynamics of oppression? The corpus of the fifth-century Athenian playwright Aristophanes includes some of the funniest yet most disturbing comedies of Western literature. His work’s anarchic[…]
Imprint: Uitgeverij
Published: 06/23/2022
Turkish Voices, written during 1989/90, is initially based on the Second New Turkish poet Cemal Süreya’s first book of poetry, Üvercinka (Pigeon English), which he wrote during the 1950s, in his twenties. In this book, striking erotic passages of uncanny psychological insight, where a nexus between pleasure and power is revealed through the lyric persona[…]
Published: 01/13/2022
In the thirteenth century, Dogen brought Zen to Japan. His tradition flourishes there still today and now has taken root across the world. Abruptly Dogen presents some of his pithy writings—startling, shifting, funny, spilling out in every direction. These writings come from all seventy-five chapters of his masterwork, the Eye of Real Dharma (Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏),[…]
Published: 03/17/2022
The critical links and dependencies between language and thought formed a major new exploration of twentieth-century philosophy. Languages nuance our ideas and perceptions. From various angles and in different ways, Heidegger, Derrida, and Wittgenstein forged new ways of understanding the relationship between our views of the external world and our culturally and linguistically pre-determined modes[…]
Imprint: Uitgeverij
Published: 09/02/2021
((( is conceived of not only as a poetry collection and an artist book, but also as a series of actions, a sculpture, an installation, a living object, and a verbal ecosystem. The poetic voyage of (((, recounted in a concrete if mysteriously abstract, yet bodily language, is presented here in a trilingual English–Italian–French edition.[…]
Imprint: Dotawo
Published: 05/12/2022
In the 1995/96 academic year, twenty-five Egyptian Nubian students of the Faculty of Social Work in Aswan were recruited by Dr. Muddathir Salim to complete a brief Nubian ethnological survey, largely restricted to the area of New Nubia, over a period of several months. They documented Egyptian Nubian culture and heritage, among them proverbs, tales,[…]