Al Dante

Poetry & Literature

 
Jacques Sivan - OM_Anaksial (+ CD)
2011
French edition
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Artist Cédric Pigot created a bruitist composition to accompany the words and voice of poet Jacques Sivan. The CD recording comes with a 80-page publication printed on internet-found images. With an afterword by Bernard Heidsieck.
Jann-Marc Rouillan - Contre-attaques - Perspective Jean-Marc Rouillan
2011
French edition
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23.40 12.00 €
This second issue brings together contributions reflecting on the political commitment and literary work of Jean-Marc Rouillan, and shedding light on three of Rouillan's most important influences today: philosophers Daniel Bensaïd and Henri Lefebvre, and activist Pierre Goldman (with contributions by Véronique Bergen, Charles Pennequin, Julien Blaine, Rada Ivekovic, Pierre Linguanotto, Laurence Denimal, Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou…).
Julien Blaine - Bimot
2011
French edition
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An ambitious project of minimalist poetry centered on the relationship between two words.
Jean-Paul Curnier - Vingt et un tours de la question (radiophonies)
2011
French edition
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Collection of fictitious transcripts of radio speeches by experts on subjects such as art in life, the scarcity of water, cigarettes, or neighborhood relations. Among the 21 speeches, only one is authentic. A humoristic take on the notion of expert, and its propagandist deviation.
Jean-Michel Espitallier - 148 propositions sur la vie et la mort - Et autres petits traités
2011
French edition
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(last copies available!)
Four treatises by Jean-Michel Espitallier.
Julien Blaine - Cours minimal sur la poésie contemporaine
2010
French edition
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A lesson on contemporary poetry.
Vannina Maestri - Mobiles 2
2010
French edition
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Vannina Maestri splits contemporary discourse into textual fragments, experiencing with the spatiality of the page and typography to better reflect the cacophony of the world.
Jean-François Bory - Sgowefygtom ! Sgowefygtom !
2010
French edition
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18.30 9.00 €
This experimental prose composed with large colored typographic compositions is a reflection on the act of writing: a deep metaphysical and melancholic text in which we meet Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, and Marinetti.
Michel Robic - Voyage à la page
2010
French edition
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20.30 10.00 €
A poetic text on travel.
Joumana Haddad - Miroirs des passantes dans le songe
2010
French edition
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A collection of texts with a feminist approach, in which Joumana Haddad tells about the life of female poets who committed suicide.
Myriam Boisaubert - Les mordicantes - 26 recettes qui plairont à tout le monde
2010
French edition
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(last copies available!)
An iconoclastic recipe book combining body and mind, savagery and eroticism, pleasure of the senses and black humor. With an afterword by Rudy Ricciotti.
Benoît Ritt - Nation
2010
French edition
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13.20 6.50 €
A science-fiction story telling the rise and fall of a fantasized totalitarian global state.
Cyrille Martinez - Chansons de France
2010
French edition
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When French politics and the history of rock'n roll collide: a both irreverent and joyful text by Cyrille Martinez.
Laurent Prexl - Poésure & sculptrie (+ CD)
2010
French edition
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20.30 10.00 €
This publication is the result of a happening of sound poetry. It gathers the texts read during the lecture, as well as a recording made from the sound asperities of each of the reciters.
Michel Surya - L\'Impasse
2010
French edition
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A pornographic text in which the author gives a desperate speech to his beloved. A nerve-racking narrative in which Michel Surya pushes the limits of excess.
Michel Surya - Contre-attaques - Perspective Michel Surya
2010
French edition
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23.40 12.00 €
The first issue of the collective review edited by philosopher and playwright Alain Jugnon gathers contributions inspired by the works of Michel Surya, and of three of his main influences, Beckett, Kafka, and Pascal.
John Ashbery - Trois poèmes
2010
French edition
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Collection gathering three long meditative prose poems, first published in 1972: a provocative masterpiece that helped establishing a new form in contemporary poetry.
Henri-Pierre Jeudy - Petit traité de scissiparité
2010
French edition
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15.30 7.50 €
This publication features fictions dealing with physical deformations and doubles, in order to reflect on the duality of man and the body.
Sylvain Courtoux - Vie et mort d\'un poète de merde (+ CD)
2010
French edition
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The life and death of a shitty poet: a fake concept album on the trials and tribulations of a young literary mind and rock'n roll enthusiast.
Clara Elliott - Strangulation blues - Poèmes post-punk et Leçons d\'Exorcisme   – 1978-1985 – Suivi de Poèmes inachevés – 1986-1987
2010
French edition
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The complete poetic works of singer and musician Clara Elliott, member of punk collective Crass.
David Sillanoli - Vandales
2010
French edition
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11.20 6.00 €
David Sillanoli's first novel features a trashy universe inspired by subcultures aesthetics and punk spirit.
Véronique Pittolo - La Révolution dans la poche
2009
French edition
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An update of the French Revolution's spirit, and a reflection on the notions of alienation, emancipation, and citizenship.
Claude Closky - Les miens - Suivi de Biennales
2009
French edition
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A book of sonnets taking as subjects the modern world and its main actors: the anonymous crowd of famous people of any kind.
Claude Closky - My People - Followed by Biennials
2009
English edition
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13.20 6.50 €
A book of sonnets taking as subjects the modern world and its main actors: the anonymous crowd of famous people of any kind.
Jacques-Henri Michot - Comme un fracas
2009
French edition
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A chronicle of the world's political situation and a reflection on the language used by those who persist to defend the current political and economic systems.
Bernard Heidsieck - Biopsies (+ CD)
2009
French edition
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Publication gathering all the texts and recordings of the Biopsies series (1965-1969).
Bernard Heidsieck - Passe-Partout (+ 2 CD)
2009
French edition
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Publication gathering all the texts and recordings of the Passe-partout series (1969-2004).
Bernard Heidsieck - Poèmes-Partitions – Précédé de Sitôt dit (+ 2 CD)
2009
French edition
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This publication brings together the sound poet's first work, published in 1955, as well as the entire Poèmes-Partitions series (1955-1965). It also includes 2 CDs with all the Poèmes-Partitions recorded in their time by the author.
Simone Forti - Oh, Tongue
2009
French edition
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The notebook of American dancer and choreographer Simone Forti, in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world… The publication includes an interview with Forti by Annie Suquet, and an afterword by poet and Fluxus artist Jakson Mac Low.
Antoine Will - Il ne s\'est rien passé à Artolsheim
2009
French edition
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Antoine Will investigates a crime news involving a community from Eastern France, and questions the making of accusations in the media and the court system.
Julien Blaine - Blaine au MAC - Un tri
2009
French edition
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39.60 19.00 €
This catalogue dedicated to experimental poet Julien Blaine documents the wide variety of his work through his texts, images, installations and performances. Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the MAC Marseille, the publication is richly illustrated and documented, and features an interview with Blaine by Laurent Cauwet and Fabienne Létang.
Pierre Courtaud - De naissance et de petites coupures
2008
French edition
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13.20 6.50 €
An account of Pierre Courtaud's nativity told with press fragments from December 26, 1951, the author's day of birth.
Julien Blaine - Les Cahiers de la 5e feuille - 1er avril 2007
2008
French edition
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27.40 13.50 €
Penultimate volume of notebooks recounting the scientific-poetic journey of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language. Here, he reflects on linguistic works by Jean-Pierre Brisset and Jules Hermann, but most and foremost on Hans W. Bornefeld's research on Cro-Magnon glyphs.
Jean-Michel Espitallier - Army
2008
French edition
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A tale of war bringing together soldiers' testimonies found on various websites—American news channels, websites on war, cellphone videos broadcasted on Youtube…
Jacques Sivan - Similijake
2008
French edition
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27.40 13.50 €
Investigating the aesthetic notion of Gesamtkunstwerk within t>he realm of literature, Jacques Sivan presents a meta-graphic narrative in color, composed of a superimposition of visual communication items, informative writings, typographical games…
Stéphane Bérard - L\'Enfer
2008
French edition
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A modernized translation of Dante's Inferno.
Cyrille Martinez - Bibliographies - 5e République – Premiers ministres et Présidents
2008
French edition
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A bibliography of the Prime ministers and Presidents of the French Fifth Republic.
Laurence Denimal - Projet-Gasmol
2008
French edition
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20.30 10.00 €
An experimental detective fiction highlighting the dangers of mass media.
Bruno Lemoine - L\'après journal de Nijinski
2008
French edition
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15.30 7.50 €
Presented as the apocryphal diary of dancer Nijinsky, this polyphonic text gives birth to a schizophrenic world in which are investigated the relations between the author, the reader, and the subject.
 La Rédaction - Valérie par Valérie
2008
French edition
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An attempt to transform the media image of Valérie, a former reality TV competitor, through a writing process.
Jean-Jacques Lebel -
2008
French edition
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This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.
Sylvain Courtoux - Nihil, Inc.
2008
French edition
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A gamebook in which the reader evolves in a burroughsian world threatened by a crime and terrorist corporation.
Jacques-Henri Michot - La vie, l\'amour, la mort
2008
French edition
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A collection of trite and commonplace remarks from the everyday life.
Véronique Pittolo - Hélène mode d\'emploi
2008
French edition
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A poetic contemporary adaptation of the mythical figure of Helen of Troy.
Jean-Luc Parant - 176 hiéroglyphes déchiffrés sous la voute du ciel
2008
French edition
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23.40 11.50 €
Publication gathering a series of early works from 1962 by French artist Jean-Luc Parant. These 176 hieroglyphs consist of 88 drawings to read, and 88 texts to look at.
Anne-James Chaton - Questio de Dido (+ CD)
2008
French edition
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Anne-James Chaton in search of the lost manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid in the city of Naples (a text and a radiophonic creation).
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