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Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly)Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and ... Read more

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Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly)Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and
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Love is a Dangerous Word

the Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill

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The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selectionFor three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage, Hemphill's poems unflinchingly explore the complex, overlapping identities of ... Read more

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The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selectionFor three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage, Hemphill's poems unflinchingly explore the complex, overlapping identities of
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Echo Tree

The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

by Henry Dumas ...

African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction—Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America.Henry Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity, the present and the ancestral. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark ... Read more

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African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction—Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America.Henry Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity, the present and the ancestral. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark
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Wit & Humor for Mental Sharpness

by John Keenes ...

Description of Book:This book has the dual objectives of bringing cheers and sharpening the intellect (killing two birds with one stone), its jokes becoming progressively funnier and wittier as the humor gets carried away.It deals with topics such as dating, aging, achievement, beauty, social media, ambition, IQ, film stars, singers, etc., with which the reader will feel a close connection, and is ... Read more

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Description of Book:This book has the dual objectives of bringing cheers and sharpening the intellect (killing two birds with one stone), its jokes becoming progressively funnier and wittier as the humor gets carried away.It deals with topics such as dating, aging, achievement, beauty, social media, ambition, IQ, film stars, singers, etc., with which the reader will feel a close connection, and is
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Letters from a Seducer

by Hilda Hilst ...

Translated by John Keene ...

Series series Pushkin Press Classics
**A grand, perturbing erotic novel in which the wealthy, amoral Karl records his sexual life and search for meaning in letters with a surprising legacy“Maybe all women wonder what men would be like without their posturing, but it seems to me Hilst had more than an inkling...” – Dodie Bellamy**This epistolary novel tells the story of Karl, a wealthy, amoral and erudite man who records his daily ... Read more

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**A grand, perturbing erotic novel in which the wealthy, amoral Karl records his sexual life and search for meaning in letters with a surprising legacy“Maybe all women wonder what men would be like without their posturing, but it seems to me Hilst had more than an inkling...” – Dodie Bellamy**This epistolary novel tells the story of Karl, a wealthy, amoral and erudite man who records his daily
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Annotations

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"Genius—brilliant, polished and of considerable depth." —Ishmael ReedAn experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles—from race to social class to sexuality (gay and ... Read more

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"Genius—brilliant, polished and of considerable depth." —Ishmael ReedAn experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles—from race to social class to sexuality (gay and
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Conversation of the Three Wayfarers

by Peter Weiss ...

Translated by E.B. Garside ...

This fast-moving, tightly-wound, and gleefully dark novella contains an entire universe in miniatureConversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents—the effect is of three capers rolled into one: a steeplechase performed on a floating pontoon. But are they ... Read more

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This fast-moving, tightly-wound, and gleefully dark novella contains an entire universe in miniatureConversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents—the effect is of three capers rolled into one: a steeplechase performed on a floating pontoon. But are they
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Think of Lampedusa

by Josué Guébo ...

Translated by Todd Fredson ...

Series series African Poetry Book
A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josué Guébo ... Read more

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A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josué Guébo
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What I Say

Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, C. S. Giscombe, Willliam L. Alexander, Ron Allen, Tisa Bryant, Renee Gladman, Duriel Harris, Harmony Holiday, Erica Hunt0, Kim Hunter1, Geoffrey Jacques2, John Keene3, Nathaniel Mackey4, Dawn Lundy Martin5, Mark McMorris6, Tracie Morris7, Harryette Mullen8, Mendi Lewis Obadike9, G. E. Patterson0, Julie Patton1, Claudia Rankine2, Deborah Richards3, Evie Shockley4, giovanni singleton5, Tyrone Williams6, Ronaldo V. Wilson7, Douglas Kearney8, Pia Deas9, T. J. Anderson III0, Dr. Lauri Ramey2, Prof. Fred Moten3 ...

Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and ... Read more

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What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and
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Kitchen Table Translation

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by John Keene, Zohra Saed ...

The Kitchen Table Translation issue of Aster(ix) Journal explores connections between translation and migration.Featuring the work of immigrant and diasporic translators, it brings personal, cultural, and political dimensions of translation together with literary and aesthetic aspects of the work, and compiles writing and translation from languages including Ahmaric, Arabic, French, Greek, ... Read more

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The Kitchen Table Translation issue of Aster(ix) Journal explores connections between translation and migration.Featuring the work of immigrant and diasporic translators, it brings personal, cultural, and political dimensions of translation together with literary and aesthetic aspects of the work, and compiles writing and translation from languages including Ahmaric, Arabic, French, Greek,
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Counternarratives

Stories and Novellas

by John Keene ...

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Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratves’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculativefic=on to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. In “Rivers,” a free Jim meets up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; “An Outtake” ... Read more

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Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratves’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculativefic=on to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. In “Rivers,” a free Jim meets up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; “An Outtake”
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Punks

New & Selected Poems

by John Keene ...

Narrated by John Keene ...

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A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, Punksweaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems—from historic ... Read more

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A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, Punksweaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems—from historic
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