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

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: 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: 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.