Product Description: Award-winning author Andrei Codrescu s Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes) surveys the evolutionary relationship between language and technology by examining his own career as a prolific American writer for more than four decades...read more

Product Description: A wide ranging survey of the poetry of Dave Brinks. Following his critically acclaimed book, The Caveat Onus, this book will help introduce Brinks to those just discovering his works and those who are asking what else has he done over the past ten years...read more

The new edition: Two years after its original release, the new Obituary Cocktail has more bars, photos, drink recipes, and quotes. Six added spreads include the bar in the kitchen at Commander's Palace, The Circle Bar and its Herradura tequila shot with tonic--the Harry Tonic Jr.--and Butler's fantastically seedy interior. WINNER Silver Medals, Publisher's Mktg Assoc & Ind Publ Assoc 2002! Book of the Year 1999 (New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association).

Product Description: "Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones...read more

Product Description: Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Translations. Avant-Garde. Art. EXQUISITE CORPSE ANNUAL NO. 2 includes historic artwork by R. Crumb; sizzling poetry by Hunter S. Thompson, Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Bill Lavender, Elinor Nauen, Gerald Nicosia, Mike Topp, and John Vanderslice; and the incandescent prose of Jan Kerouac, Steve Katz, Dave Brinks, Debra Di Blasi, Larry Betz, Gretchen Henderson, Tyrone Jaeger, Andrei Plesu, Pat Nolan, Kevin PQ Phelan, Jared Schickling, Hariette Surovell, and Brook Wilensky-Lanford...read more

Product Description: The whole story of a difficult love, from the first signs of tenderness through a life-and-death battle, to a reconciliation made necessary by wisdom. An affair conducted from a great distance through literature and technology. This long sequence story poem was written via email by Andrei Codrescu and Ruxandra Cesereanu...read more

"This is a guide for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life."--The Posthuman Dada Guide The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world--all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V. I. Lenin, the daddy of communism. This epic game at Zurich's Café de la Terrasse--a battle between radical visions of art and ideological revolution--lasted for a century and may still be going on, although communism appears dead and Dada stronger than ever. As the poet faces the future mass murderer over the chessboard, neither realizes that they are playing for the world. Taking the match as metaphor for two poles of twentieth- and twenty-first-century thought, politics, and life, Andrei Codrescu has created his own brilliantly Dadaesque guide to Dada--and to what it can teach us about surviving our ultraconnected present and future. Here dadaists Duchamp, Ball, and von Freytag-Loringhoven and communists Trotsky, Radek, and Zinoviev appear live in company with later incarnations, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gilles Deleuze, and Newt Gingrich. The Posthuman Dada Guide is arranged alphabetically for quick reference and (some) nostalgia for order, with entries such as "eros (women)," "internet(s)," and "war." Throughout, it is written in the belief "that posthumans lining the road to the future (which looks as if it exists, after all, even though Dada is against it) need the solace offered by the primal raw energy of Dada and its inhuman sources."

Product Description: Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Translations. Avant-Garde. Art. The legendary EXQUISITE CORPSE is back in print, this time as an annual published through the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas...read more

Product Description: Born in Romania, Andrei Codrescu understands the spirit of his adopted New Orleans, a city that steadfastly “refuses to conform to anything that is known about it.” When Hurricane Katrina blew through, the New Orleans landscape changed yet again and Codrescu, like his hero, “tolstoy exhausted having just written russia,” recorded it all...read more

Product Description: The devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has been imprinted in our collective visual memory by thousands of images in the media and books of dramatic photographs by Robert Polidori, Larry Towell, Chris Jordan, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, and others...read more

Product Description: The novel begins when Wakefield, an "inspirational speaker" and architecture enthusiast, is visited by the Devil, who tells him his time is up. Not yet ready, Wakefield strikes a bargain with Satan and sets off on a cross-country journey to understand his life and times and find his "authentic" self...read more

Product Description: The novel begins when Wakefield, an "inspirational speaker" and architecture enthusiast, is visited by the Devil, who tells him his time is up. Not yet ready, Wakefield strikes a bargain with Satan and sets off on a cross-country journey to understand his life and times and find his "authentic" self...read more

Product Description: Beloved NPR commentator and popular author Andrei Codrescu makes a stunning return to historical fiction, detailing the adventurous life and erotic times of the famed illuminist Giacomo Casanova. In his national bestseller The Blood Countess, Andrei Codrescu brought to life the bloodthirsty royal Elizabeth Bathory, who embodied nearly all the contradictions of the seventeenth century...read more

A translation of the leading Romanian writer's 1989 debut novel consists of five stand-alone chapters that are linked together through imaginative explorations of such themes as humankind's primordial myth-making, the origins of the universe, and an apocalyptic Bucharest tenement district during the years of communist dictatorship. Original.

'This work explores Codrescu's writings and how they are a part of the surrealist tradition. It examines the ways in which his poetry and essays are influenced by his upbringing in Communist Romania and the liberal attitudes he encountered upon moving tothe United States, and draws comparisons between Codrescu and other surrealists'--Provided by publisher.

Gathering together some of the most contemporary and interesting writing on Cuba, this book attempts to pierce the rhetoric surrounding this rogue nation just ninety miles from American shores to look at the history, cullture, and conflict of Cuba, from Che Guevara to cigars to baseball. Original.

In praise of his poetry, The New York Times calls Andrei Codrescu "one of our most prodigiously talented and magical writers." Part genius, part tongue-in-cheek provocateur, Codrescu is an audacious and passionate poet. The heart of this first new collection in nearly a decade is a beautiful conceit containing the "recently discovered" correspondence between a warrior and a courtesan in fourteenth-century China. These tender, timeless verses contrast nicely with tough, funny -poems about modern life and millennial malaise. Andrei Codrescu is a celebrated poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator on National Public -Radio. A World Heavyweight Champion Poet, his many awards include the Literature Prize of the Romanian Cultural Foundation and the Peabody Award for his film Road Scholar. Born in Romania, Andrei Codrescu lives in New Orleans. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A lovely collection by noted New York photographer Virginia Joffe and Romanian poet Carmen Firan that records the turning over of the wheel of time, the changing of once seemingly immutable orders, the anguish of people struggling to escape history and to understand themselves...read more