Contra Mundum Press
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To the individual voice, to testing the boundaries of thought & experience. A poetics of hospitality. Home to lone & exiled or forgotten voices ~
Join us July 31st for a Dreamscapes I — Betrayals event at Brooklyn’s Barzakh Cafe. With a reading from the book and a short film screening. RSVP: viewcy.com/event/book_and…
The new installment of our Q&A series Book Flights with @gabrieletinti is out now For poetry recommendations, current reads, and more: patreon.com/collection/683…
Now available worldwide as an ebk: Antonin Artaud, Journey to Mexico: Revolutionary Messages & the Tarahumara amzn.to/3TMcOLT Apple book coming soon. “I came to Mexico to escape European civilization … I hoped to find a vital form of culture.”
Emilio Villa may well be the greatest macaronic poet since Teofilo Folengo ... [but] Villa offers a more modernist career, a more radical stance, and a greater challenge to us. — Paul Gehl on The Selected Poetry of Emilio Villa, for The Decadent Review
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On what our life wants to whisper to us... Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
Thank you, Translators Aloud. My reading of an excerpt from Some Thoughts on the Novel, from the Marquis de Sade's Stories, Tales, & Fables, published by @_contramundum_ is now live: youtube.com/watch?v=b1R9-9… Book details: rjdent.com/stories-tales-…
Breaking news! Contra Mundum & Totuccio Alimentari Alliance: contramundumpress.com/post/contra-mu…
Excerpts from Richard Foreman’s Plays With Films contramundumpress.com/plays-with-fil…
“not true there is no ending and no hero not true that we’re not anybody’s child” — Sara Whym, Dreamscapes I contramundumpress.com/dreamscapes
Ahmad Shamlu Born Upon the Dark Spear Tr. by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh "...a gateway to the paradoxical imagination of an author who traverses immense distances of oblivion & light." contramundumpress.com/born-upon-the-…
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. — Emerson
4 days left to our 25% off Flash Sale! Poetry, fiction, cinema, philosophy & more. From Gilgamesh to Baudelaire, Pasolini & beyond. Translations from over 14 different languages. World Premiere editions of Pessoa & Musil. Books for every mood, temper, & desire!
"For me, Gábor Schein is one of the most important poets writing in Hungary today." Poetry on illness, dissent, and the city as a psychic space — across decades and regimes. 📖 Read our interview with Schein, Mulzet & Mihálycsa on Beyond the Cordons: hlo.hu/interview/gabo…