Beiträge

  • Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Philippe Sollers | What is the Meaning of the Avant-garde’s Death?

    FIRST PUBLISHED: DIAPHANES How could Dante be avant-garde? Mehdi Belhaj Kacem: Mr. Sollers, for 23 years you were the editor of Tel Quel, doubtless the very last important literary review that can be considered “avant-garde.” It published some of the biggest “avant-garde” writers of its time, like Pierre Guyotat, Maurice Roche, Jean-Jacques Schuhl and yourself, as well…

  • Best Books of 2019

        Miyó Vestrini | Grenade in Mouth Those who write are not even of a race. Nor a caste. Nor a class. Nor are they one. They ruin the point of living, like women in a world of science. Behind thick lenses, the court is never dull. They have all privileges: from philosophy up…

  • Arthur Rimbaud | A Season in Hell

    Arthur Rimbaud | A Season in Hell

       * * * Long ago, if my memory serves, life was a feast where every heart was open, where every wine flowed. One night,…

  • riots and/or poetics [10/2018]

    riots and/or poetics [10/2018]

    “History is full of people who just didn’t. They said no thank you, turned away, escaped to the desert, lived in barrels, burned down their own…

  • Nathaniel Mackey | Cante Moro

    Nathaniel Mackey | Cante Moro

    I would like to touch on the topic of “The New American Poetry“ where it opens onto matters we wouldn’t necessarily expect it to entail—not…