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This volume concentrates on Stein's experimental works many of which were previously unknown. The editor's textual scholarship "demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of the conventions of language, writing, and reading and her stunning subversion of the authority of language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Amazon.com: "One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses and driving-school cars caught in their routes; the pigeons moving suddenly en masse; a wedding (and then a funeral) at the church in the center of the square; the signs, symbols and slogans littering everything; and the darkness that finally absorbs it all. In An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Perec compiled a melancholic, slightly eerie and oddly touching document in which existence boils down to rhythm, writing turns into time and the line between the empirical and the surreal grows surprisingly thin." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a book in the Chapbook series of the press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a collection of 26 "dramatic objects" for the stage and radio using fantasy, symbolism, mystery, violence and humor. The pieces, written between 1944 and 1946, are daring experiments with language. Gauvreau was a member of an avant garde Montreal artistic group who called themselves "Les Automatistes." "Entrails" is Gauvreau's first full book published in English. It includes a biography of the poet and is illustrated with his automatic drawings.The book is part of a series entitled Coach House Quebec Translations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the only full-length study of Finnegans Wake to outline and catalog the immense amount of naturalistc detail from which Joyce built the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a compendium of Canadian avant garde writing from 1965 to 1985. Margaret Atwood, who contributed an over-view essay of the work produced during those years, collaborated with Bok to organize the selections of experimental fiction by the authors. John Riddell contributed "Pope Leo: El Lope" from Criss-Cross. It is a lipogram using only the letters e, o, l and p. The contribution by bp Nichol is from "Still... a novel that depicts in minute detail the scenography for a potential, but postponed , story... his words provide a kind of textual terrain across which the eye pans like a camera." Steve McCaffery's "Panopticon" is an enigmatic whodunnit...The panopticon symbolizes the maze of words through which the reader must wander, playing the role of invisible spectator." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Polkinhorn's story revolves around his romance with a Cuban-American woman. The book is written in a stream of consciousness as a literary collage without punctuation. Karl Young provides an introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a collection of essays on Liberature and James Joyce's works held on Bloomsday in Krakow in 1999 and 2000. An English summary appears at the end of the book. The editor in her essay makes the point that all Joyce's books go round in circles beginning and ending with the same themes: family, death, resurrection or rebirth. The cover depicts a reproduction of Drozd's room installation of letters that was shown in the Beyond Geometry exhibition, LACMA and Miami Museum of Art 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Motte provides a critical analysis of Perec's lipogram novel, "La Disparition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a reprint of the 1931 edition of the book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

First published by Atlas Press in London in 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.