Jericho Brown

June Jordan

Christoph Keller

Jan Heller Levi

The Essential June Jordan

Toni Morrison affirms Jordan's work as "tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art."

We're On: a June Jordan Reader

Russian Storiesrounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and Nabokov, and continuing up to contemporary writers such as Tatyana Tolstaya and the recent Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich. There is no similar one-volume collection of the best of the Russian greats in English. Women writers are particularly well represented and predominate in the last fifty years; also included is a story by the recently rediscovered Teffi, who was widely hailed a century ago in Russia as 'the female Chekhov'.

Russian Stories

Ata Macias

'Thank you for dancing and never forget: the good times are always now! Farewell, Ramona.'These words by the nightclub Robert Johnson's own and very mysterious hostess might be as mundane as the very concept of nightclubs. But at a second glance, it is ap

The Robert Johnson Book

Come on in My Kitchen

Jakob Kolding

Danish artist and urban activist Jakob Kolding makes collages that ask: "Who built your neighborhood? For whom was it built? Who uses the space?" This is a visual and verbal dialogue on the dense urban landscapes familiar throughout the globe. Through essays, poignant collages of appropriated comic book images and black-and-white photos with text, Kolding makes it clear that urban planning has failed miserably, creating concrete corridors that are veritable holding tanks for the masses. But he also finds the spark of human spirit rising through youth street culture, pop music, and skateboarding. A definite reality check on architecture and urban planning! Essays by Stephen Graham, Simon Marvis, Iain Borden and Doreen Massey.

City 2

'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times 'A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page' Morning Star 'A skilful act of literary witness, sharp, moving and funny' Joanne Limburg 'Christoph Keller ... ranks among the great Swiss writers' Neue Zürcher Zeitung Most stories of disability follow a familiar pattern: Life Before Accident. Life After Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different: his childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy only revealed what had been with him since birth. SMA III, the 'kindest one', allows those who have it to live a long life, and it progresses slowly. There is no cure. By the age of 25, he had to use a wheelchair some of the time. 'There were two of me: Walking Me. Rolling Me.' By 32, he could still walk into a restaurant with a cane or on somebody's arm. At 45, 'Rolling Me' took over altogether. Intimate, absurdist and winningly frank, Every Cripple a Superhero is at once a memoir of life with a progressive disorder, and a profound exploration of the challenges of loving, being loved, and living a public life - navigating restaurants, aeroplanes, museums and artists' retreats - in a world not designed for you. Threaded throughout are Keller's own photographs of the unexpected beauty found in puddle-filled 'curb cuts', the pavement ramps that, left to disintegrate, form part of the urban obstacle course. Those puddles become portals into a different, truer city; and, as they do, so this book - told with humour and immense grace - begins to uncover a truer world: one where the 'normal' is not normal, where disability is far more widespread than we might think, and where there always exist, just alongside our own, the lives of everyday superheroes.

Every Cripple a Superhero

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Come On In My Kitchen, The Robert Johnson Book

"June Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith. . . . She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to write or act or be. . . . For this book to have its birth now, in the lopsided moment when we need it most, is no chance occurrence. This great woman blacksmith is still sweetly hammering us on." —Nikky Finney Poet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for understanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering Black American writer. From "Poem about Police Violence": Tell me something what you think would happen if everytime they kill a black boy then we kill a cop everytime they kill a black man then we kill a cop you think the accident rate would lower subsequently? . . . I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabid and repetitive affront as when they tell me 18 cops in order to subdue one man 18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don't you idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue and scuffle my oh my) and that the murder that the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn street was just a "justifiable accident" again (again) People been having accidents all over the globe so long like that I reckon that the only suitable insurance is a gun

We're On: A June Jordan Reader

Muriel Rukeyser

An elegant relaunch of Muriel Rukeyser s Elegies, previously available only in a limited edition, celebrates the centennial of her birth"

Elegies

Matias Faldbakken

Tiré du site Internet de JRP/Ringier : "Matias Faldbakken (*1973) is an artist and writer living in Oslo. Son of the celebrated Norwegian author Knut Faldbakken, he has published two novels, "The Cocka Hola Company" and "Macht und Rebel" under the alias Abo Rasul. Drenched with acid humor and continuously hitting below the waist, his books immediately caused a considerable stir in Norway. If, in these publications, he underlines the differences and similarities between the so-called underground and the mainstream, and between the "independent" and the "commercial" in everyday life, these subjects are also central to his art practice. Fascinated with systems of knowledge, power, order, and exchange, he shows an interest in understanding how art and artists can be active participants in these systems. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen as well as at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He represented Norway in the Nordic Pavillion at the Venice Biennial in 2005, as well as showing his work in the Wrong Gallery at the Whitney Biennial, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the National Museum Oslo, the Sydney Biennial and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, among others."

Not Made Visible

Otto Wahl

"Ich sage dir: steh auf!" : biblische Impulse zum Dialog- und Erneuerungsprozess der Kirche

"An anthology of poems from across the centuries and around the world on the subject of beer"--

Poems about Beer

Hip Hops

Carol Strickland

Aris Kalaizis

Tom Huhn

Aris Kalaizis' close-to-photography paintings inspire the imagination of the viewer and make him discover mysterious and symbolic places. With brilliant accuracy and creative fantasy he designs pictures which crowd in on the subconscious of the amazed admirer. Not surprisingly the artist needs long time to accomplish these paintings, each brushstroke is calculated, each gesture is thoroughly observed, and the colors are exactly coordinated. During working periods in Columbus, OH and New York 2005-2007 he had some group exhibitions in New York galleries.

Aris Kalaizis - Making Sky

Tiré du site Internet de Revolver: "What is Black Friday? Black Friday, Sept. 24, 1869, in U.S. history, day of financial panic. In 1869 a small group of American financial speculators, including Jay Gould and James Fisk, sought the support of federal officials of the Grant administration in a drive to corner the gold market. The attempt failed when government gold was released for sale. The drive culminated on a Friday, when thousands were ruined--the day is popularly called Black Friday. There was great indignation against the perpetrators. Several other days of financial panic have also been occasionally referred to as Black Friday. What is Black Friday? Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. It marks the official beginning to the Christmas shopping season. The "black" in the name comes from the standard accounting practice of using red ink to denote negative values (in this case, profits) and black ink to denote positive values. Black Friday is the day when retailers traditionally get back "in the black" after operating "in the red" for the previous months. "It is in the nature of the secret that it should be shared. In fact, the main function of the secret is to define the codes that regulate how and by whom it can be shared. The distinction between those who have the right to share it and those who don't, the rightfully initiated and illegitimate impostors is built into the logic of the secret. To know a secret therefore does not mean to be informed about its content - secrets have very little in common with information - rather, it implies that you have come to know what it means to know the secret. This is to say that you have to become initiated into the technique of acquiring the knowledge of the secret and each secret requires a particular technique of knowing it. In effect, the knowledge of secrets is by definition technical, pragmatic and performative. It is based on the practical proficiency in the coded languages used to share secrets, the many clandestine signs, gestures and innuendos by means of which you make it understood to others that you are in the know and test them whether they are, too. For if they can read the signs - and show you that they do by responding to your gestures with the appropriate responses - they thereby identify themselves as members of the community founded on the very practices of sharing secrets you currently perform. If they can't, however, they immediately disqualify themselves as uninitiated into the intimate symbolic bond created by the mutual knowledge of the secret." (Jan Verwoert)"

Exercises in Hermetics

Black Friday

Pedro Barateiro

Ricardo Valentim

Mediated by Pedro Barateiro and Ricardo Valentim, Activity is a collaboratively created artists' book authored by multiple individuals. The artists engaged in ongoing discussions around the issues of collaboration, accountability, and democracy for over three years. The format of an artist's book was chosen as the vehicle for mapping their activity. Because the impetus for the project was based so much in conversations, they decided to employ 'the dialogue' itself as the 'medium,' transforming this project from a mere publication into something more. Barateiro and Valentim's withdrawal from their position as the book's authors enabled the shared authorship of all the participants. Unlike the typical artist's book, which usually functions as an extension of an individual artist's practice, Activity instead represents a collective artistic experience, effectively rethinking the artist's book today. This publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller.

Activity

Russell Ferguson

Philipp Lachenmann

Some Scenic Views - the title of Philipp Lachenmann's first monograph - reflects his work's camouflage strategy. Presenting 80 photographs of unspectacular views, the book reveals the process of hiding complex meaning behind a surface of normalcy. With a series of short texts, Russell Fergusson brings to the fore those hidden facts of historical, political, natural, or scientific nature. He thus reveals Lachenmann's photographs for what they truly are: conceptual artworks. This book inscribes itself in the German artist's body of works as a kind of picture novel rather than a monograph. The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller. English and German text.

Some Scenic Views

At fourteen, Christoph Keller was diagnosed with a hereditary neuromuscular disorder called Spinal Muscular Atrophy, which should have confined him to a wheelchair by the age of twenty. Defying doctors advice to take it easy, he begins to appreciate every moment by living each day to its fullest. By embracing the memories of an imagination-filled childhood, Keller is able to accept his alcoholic father and ever-changing disability.

Christoph Keller

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