Al Dante

Founded in 1994, Al Dante aims to bring the most contemporary writing out of the margins. Al Dante publishes books—poetry, poetic and experimental proses, historical avant-gardes, theoretical essays, catalogs and artists' publications, anthologies, reviews—but also CDs (sound poetry, music), DVDs, journals, organizes and participates in events—readings, performances, colloquiums, exhibitions...

Al Dante's catalogue is integrated into that of Les presses du réel since 2018, and its program extended, in all its poetic and political radicality, within a new series directed by Laurent Cauwet.
 
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295 titles
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Louis Roquin - Journaux de sons - Limited edition
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
The “Sounds Journals” by the composer and visual artist Louis Roquin, made during travels in Asia over twenty years (1998-2016), constitute a kaleidoscopic homage to writing, image, text and sound. This limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, contains an unique signed collage.
Myr Muratet - Manuel d\'écologie urbaine
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
Julien Blaine - Le livre
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
An original fable at war against the founding books of monotheisms (unpublished text of 1963).
Angéline Neveu - Enragée de Nanterre - ou Le mensonge intime
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Angéline Neveu, a figure of May '68 then of the French poetic underground, close to the Situationists, tells herself and offers a testimony on the years 1960-70.
Clemente Padín - De la représentation à l\'action
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.
Attaques
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A journal of critical and political poetry.
Michèle Métail - Portraits-robots
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory.
Michèle Métail - Portraits-robots - Luxury Edition
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory, with an original and unique artwork.
Angéline Neveu - Synthèse / désir
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Reissue of the main publications by Angéline Neveu (1946-2011), a political figure of the poetic underground scene in France.
Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou - Nos secrets sont poétiques
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This publication brings together two new texts by Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou, with an audio link granting access to a recorded version of the publication, accompanied by a composition by sound artist motif_r.
Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou - Nos secrets sont poétiques - Luxury Edition (+ CD)
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This publication brings together two new texts by Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou. The limited edition includes an original and unique artwork, as well as a CD with a sound declension of the poem, recorded by the author and accompanied by a composition of the sound artist motif_r.
Christian Prigent - Poésie sur place (+ CD)
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Collection of transcripts of performance poetry by Christian Prigent. This edition comes with a CD including the recordings of these performances, featuring the author and actress Vanda Benes.
José Vicente Anaya - Híkuri - Pour un art d\'une vitalité sans limite
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A seminal text of Contemporary Mexican poetry, inspired by the Tarahumara and peyote rituals. Included in appendix is the first manifesto of infra-realism, written by Anaya in 1975.
591
2019
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.
Michèle Métail - La poésie en trois dimensions
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A collective exploration of 45 years of protean poetic activities, between printed text, exposed text and proffered text, with some thirty contributions by academics and poets, with numerous illustrations.
Guillaume Apollinaire - Poèmes en guerre - 31 juillet 1914 - 9 novembre 1918
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
All poems written by Apollinaire during World War I, gathered for the first time.
François Bizet - Dans le mirador
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic story in prose at the crossroads of genres, difficult to locate as it only describes the non-place in which it is built.
Claude Favre - Crever les toits, etc. - suivi de Déplacements, septembre 2016
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Claude Favre delivers a poetry made of readings and borrowings, a present poetry, attentive to the movements of men and to those who constrain them.
Frédéric Valabrègue - George Brecht, histoire d\'un effacement
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Al Dante
An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.
Michèle Métail - Le cours du Danube - en 2888 kilomètres/vers… l\'infini
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music.
Michèle Métail - Le cours du Danube - en 2888 kilomètres/vers… l\'infini – Luxury Edition
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music, with an original and unique artwork.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica - Luxury Edition (+ CD)
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin. Luxury limited edition, signed, including an original artwork and the sound artwork “Oxymoron Music” on CD.
Julien Blaine - 2017
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Éric Arlix - Terreur, Saison 1
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A thriller novel set in a dystopian Europe where a medicine against depression radically changes people's behavior…
Jalal El Hakmaoui - Ce que je n\'ai pas dit à Bob Dylan
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Collection of poems.
Nadège Prugnard - M.A.M.A.E. (Meurtre Artistique Munitions Action Explosion) & autres textes
2017
French edition
(last copies available!)
At the crossroads of theater, performance, and poetry, this collection of texts puts forward women's voice to express their power of resistance against their condition.
Jacques Sivan - La poésie motléculaire de Jacques Sivan
2017
French edition
A collection of texts written between 1983 and 2016, enabling us to comprehend the singularity of Sivan's work. Prefaces in opening section offer insights into this unusual poetry, pointing the links between Sivan's poetic universe and those of Denis Roche, Raymond Roussel, Charles Olson, Maurice Roche, Marcel Duchamp…
Sadie von Paris - Gang blues ecchymoses - Rites et passages vers la vie
2017
French edition
30.00 15.00 €
An insurrectional youth in quest for alternative words: a poetic and visual work by photographer Sadie von Paris and writer Véronique Bergen.
Jérôme Bertin - Goulag sous les étoiles
2017
French edition
The daily routine of a dropout in the city of Marseille.
Jean-Philippe Cazier - L\'la phrase. L\'
2017
French edition
A poetic and philosophical text investigating the use of the sentence.
Véronique Bergen - Janis Joplin - Voix noire sur fond blanc
2016
French edition
A novel on the life and times of Janis Joplin.
Justin Delareux - Extrait des nasses
2016
French edition
A both poetical and political text, praising the poetic revolution of language against the current condition of the everyday life.
Michel Surya - Le Mort-né - Suivi de Eux
2016
French edition
Novelist, essayist and philosopher Michel Surya looks back on his past as an unwanted child and delivers powerful thoughts on hatred, death, and the will to live.
Julien Blaine - Lecture de 5 faits d\'actualité par un septuagénaire bien sonné
2016
French edition
23.00 11.50 €
Religious crimes, Rosetta spacecraft, Hillary Clinton, workers' struggle in France, Calais jungle: a critical commentary of the news by poet Julien Blaine.
 Dominique Lesbegueris & Christine Raynier - Les mots construisent l\'architecture - 1995-2015 & ∞
2016
French edition
39.00 19.00 €
A richly-illustrated monograph spanning twenty years of works by architects Dominique Lesbegueris and Christine Raynier. The publication includes an interview with the duo and a collection of poetic texts by Ève Delalysse, Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou, Véronique Bergen, Liliane Giraudon, Fédé Aranburu, Amandine André, Jean-Jacques Viton, Sarah Kérina, and Laura Vazquez.
Rada Iveković - Réfugié-e-s - Les jetables
2016
French edition
Philosopher and feminist writer Rada Iveković examines the current refugee crisis in Europe, and call for the reception of the migrants.
Amandine André - De la destruction
2016
French edition
Collection of 10 texts to explore the tense poetry of Amandine André. With a foreword by Michel Surya.
Herman Gorter - Ce que tu es
2016
French edition
Collection of poems by Dutch poet and communist activist Herman Gorter, key figure of modern poetry in the Netherlands who inspired generations of poets including 1950's avant-garde authors.
Pascale Weber - L\'attachement
2016
French edition
An iconographic and analytic portrait of artist Pascale Weber's singular practice.
Jérôme Bertin - Retour de bâtard
2016
French edition
The follow-up of Jérôme Bertin 's autobiographical enterprise: the life of an outcast in the margins of society.
Jacques Sivan - Pendant Smara - Suivi de Pissarro & co
2015
French edition
Jacques Sivan continues to explore the visual and phonetic potentialities of the language.
A.C. Hello - Naissance de la gueule
2015
French edition
A poem of sheer brutality on the corporal incarnation of the language.
Éric Pessan - En voie de disparition
2015
French edition
A professional portrait of the writer.
Invece - Cimendef et les hommes libres
2015
French edition
15.00 7.50 €
Invece is an art and poetry review directed by Julien Blaine. It gathers contributions based on a specific theme. This third issue is dedicated to Cimendef, the legendary maroon from Bourbon Island.
Véronique Bergen - Le cri de la poupée
2015
French edition
A novel on German artist and writer Unica Zurn, a close friend of the surrealist movement and Hans Bellmer's lover.
David Sillanoli - Courir après Ouma Kapal
2015
French edition
17.00 8.00 €
A tale on the search for an ancestral relic that has the power to annihilate the universe. At the crossroads of an adventure novel, a science-fiction narrative, and a punk story.
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