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This is a montage of polemic and poetic fiction that calls into question the whole aim and structure of civilisation since the beginning of history, advocating a new, more creative and less frightened human mode of behaviour. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Perloff traces the history of modern poetry mainly through such poets as Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sanuel Beckett, John Ashbery, David Antin and John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to Lehrer, "The composition of each book in The Portrait Series is shaped by the composition of a life...The monologues that make up this series are informed by the structure of supper talk, messages left on phone machines, ruminations of long walks, and reiminiscences evoked by photo albums and rainy Sundays...The first four books in The Portrait Series focus on men. Taken together, these books form a group portrait as reflective of the voices stirred within me as it is of the subjec -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Arno Schmidt, considered by many to be the "German James Joyce," was born in 1914 and died in 1979. This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. The Sackner Archive also holds the original German edition of this book. This is one of Schmidt's "superbooks," a large format novel with unusual page layouts, illustrations, and puns a'plenty. Nowhere near as difficult as Zettel's Traum or Evening Edged in Gold, it's a rollicking tale of culture-clash set in the near future (with an extended flashback to 1969), and features a typical Schmidt protagonist (a walking encyclopedia of an old codger), two delightful 17-year-old girls, a visiting American Secretary of State nicknamed Isis, and many more. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a special issue of December Magazine comprising Vol.21 No.1-2, 1978. The style of this book appears to be influenced by Kenneth Patchen's early works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First published in the United States in 1957 by the New American Library as a Signet Book. This edition is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a fictionalized account of a famous Sweetmeat twins Rock Concert in May 1966 held at Big Sur, California. The book is presented as a typewritten document. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Subtitled andor the dangerous prevalence of imagination, this novel is devoid of punctuation marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a collage novel with words. It contrasts to Max Ernst's collage novels that are written without words. The copious number of illustrations for the novel consist of copperplate engravings collages mostly taken from issues of the Illustrated London News 1860-1900. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reprinting of the hard cover book published by Gabberbochus. The copious number of illustrations for the novel consist of copperplate engravings collages mostly taken from issues of the Illustrated London News 1860-1900. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This novel deals with self-revelations of an American academic who is trying to write an introduction for a book that he has just completed, "Guilt and Innocence in Hutler's Germany." The book can be opened to almost any page and read as fragments of self-contained poetry. It has many Joycean elements in its presentation.Reviews in Dalkey Archive at their Web site:by H. L. HixWilliam H. Gass's The Tunnel, whatever its virtues, is not an inviting book. Even a reader willing to endure its length and its narrator's unrelenting bitterness must overcome its subordination of plot to other concerns: the book does not proceed from a to b along a "straight line" of narrative or exposition, revealing all relevant information before or as it is needed, but moves in a less ordered (or differently ordered) way that its author conceives as a more accurate replication of human consciousness. Its releasing and withholding information with little regard for plot means that The Tunnel offers more to...

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This novel deals with self-revelations of an American academic who is trying to write an introduction for a book that he has just completed, "Guilt and Innocence in Hutler's Germany." The book can be opened to almost any page and read as fragments of self-contained poetry. It has many Joycean elements in its presentation. This version of the book has a collaged yellow Jewish star on page 30 with the inscription "JUDE" whereas the purchased version on its release did not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.