Thus spake the Corpse : an Exquisite corpse reader, 1988-1998

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Thus spake the Corpse : an Exquisite corpse reader, 1988-1998

edited by Andrei Codrescu & Laura Rosenthal

Black Sparrow Press, 1999-2000

  • v. 1. poetry & essays : pbk
  • v. 2. fictions, travels & translations : pbk

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Exquisite corpse

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Volume

v. 1. poetry & essays : pbk ISBN 9781574231007

Description

Andrei Codrescu's infamous anti-literary magazine "Exquisite Corpse" became a prime site of engaged dialogue in the stormy decade of its existence. Taking its name from Surrealism, the "Corpse" became the home of rebellion, passion, polemic, black humour, sedition, and all points between the front lines and back alleys of contemporary culture. In this text, Codrescu and Rosenthal resurrect the best essays and poems from Carl Rakosi, James Purdy, Joel Oppenheimer, Robert Creeley, Tom Clark and other members of America's vibrant and eclectic avant-garde.
Volume

v. 2. fictions, travels & translations : pbk ISBN 9781574231410

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In its day, Andrei Codrescu's controversial and notorious anti-literary literary magazine Exquisite Corpse was a primary source rebellion, passion and black humor. Calculated to assault, shock, intrigue and reflect our anxious millennium fill the pages of this Corpse reader. A heady invitation to enjoy one's intellectual freedom while it lasts, the volume inscribes central (and edgy) poetic controversies, eulogizes and condemns, realizes and surrealizes, translates and travels across space and time to place us in all those wild worlds visited by the bizarre legion of Corpse correspondents.

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  • NCID
    BB14959874
  • ISBN
    • 1574231006
    • 1574231413
  • LCCN
    99032586
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Santa Rosa, Calif.
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 v.
  • Size
    23 cm
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