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Rotolux Press

Anthologie Douteuses (2010—2020)

Élodie Petit, Marguerin Le Louvier

€22.00

Élodie Petit et Marguerin Le Louvier écrivent des poèmes brûlants, sexuels, politiques et les autoéditent depuis leurs chambres sous la bannière commune des Éditions Douteuses. En une décennie, ils produiront des dizaines de textes courts et incisifs, imprimés en noir sur papiers colorés, parfois fluo, formats A5 ou A6 agrafés. À tirages variables, ils seront diffusés lors de soirées lectures-performances dans des bars ou des institutions artistiques, dans des salons de micro-éditions underground ou parfois sous le manteau. L’Anthologie Douteuses (2010—2020) rassemble pour la première fois ces textes en un seul volume, où l’arrangement chronologique donne à voir une certaine évolution de leur pratique littéraire sur dix ans. 

« Des incendies savamment allumés au fuel de l’ironie, du fun et du détournement, de la critique sociale et sexuelle, de la pensée radicale et de la poésie merveilleuse. Des contre-feux révolutionnaires joyeusement embrasés par une gouine et un pédé mal repassés du col, qui écrivent, baisent, dessinent, dansent, et s’asseyent en gloussant sur le visage de tous les «culs cousus» et autres suceurs de vieux noyaux. (...) Oui, cette tendresse, leur tendresse, celle d’Élodie et de Marguerin, je crois, nous guérira de tout et leurs merveilleux textes, enfin réunis en un seul et même volume, il faudra les lire quand le courage de vivre, d’aimer et de faire la révolution viendra à nous manquer. Moi, c’est ce que je ferai. » Extrait de la préface d’Anne Pauly.

« Le feu, dans cet ouvrage, est partout invoqué, sussuré, explosé. Il se coule dans les pratiques poétiques queer, matérialistes et révolutionnaires des deux artisan·e·s de ce programme politique. Les éditions douteuses sont un mode d’emploi pour des alliances radicales trans-pédés-gouines-et-au-delà, un appel à une nécessaire profusion-collusion de nos appartenances, de nos situations, et à la production d’intervalles de revendications et de combats partagés. » Extrait de la préface de Thomas Conchou.

Language: French

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Rotolux Press

Jangal

Ana Pi, Léna Araguas and 2 more

Jangal est un ouvrage collectif avec la participation d’Ana Pi, Julien Creuzet, Léna Araguas et Éva Barois De Caevel. Il a été conçu lors de l’exposition « Cet ailleurs, qui rejaillit en moi, lorsque je suis là (…) » de Julien Creuzet à la galerie NaMiMa de l’École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy.

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Nightboat Books

Don't Leave Me This Way

Eric Sneathen

Poetry €18.00

A textual and historigraphical odyssey imbued with queer intergenerational yearning and loss.

Don't Leave Me This Way blends archival research with sexual fantasy to produce a series of sonnets inspired by Gaétan Dugas, named by Randy Shilts as "Patient Zero" of the AIDS epidemic in North America. Committed to the utopian possibilities of elegy and pornography, Don't Leave Me This Way exploits the absurdist beauty of the cut-up technique to voice a chorus of lost spirits: poignant, vengeful, and ready to ball.

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Sternberg Press

The German Library Pyongyang

Sara Sejin Chang

From December 11, 2015, until April 10, 2016, the German Library in Guangzhou, China, became The German Library Pyongyang, a reimagining of an initiative of the Goethe-Institut that originally operated in North Korea between 2004 and 2009. This temporary intervention by Sara van der Heide is an imaginary transformation of the current geography of the German Library in Guangzhou. Van der Heide’s project is a contemporary version of the Goethe-Institut’s original library initiative in North Korea, devised as a vessel to discuss national cultural policy in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era that looks critically toward the parallel histories of Germany and the two Koreas. The German Library Pyongyang offers a space for critical questions, but it also functions as a context for transcending thinking that is prescribed by the lines of the nation-state, language, and geography. The several artistic, linguistic, and graphic interventions in the library merge with the continuing activities of the German learning center in Guangzhou, and all institutional printed matter in Chinese is replaced by Korean.

This publication brings together the four original exhibition booklets in German, Korean, English, and Chinese. An additional reader is included with critical reflections as well as documentation of the exhibition and the organized seminar.

Design by Dongyoung Lee
English/German/Korean/Chinese

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Wesleyan

The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition

Aimé Césaire

Poetry €18.00

The first bilingual edition of this radically original work.

Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Césaire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric—material that Césaire only added in 1956. The original 1939 version of the poem, given here in French, and in its first English translation, reveals a work that is both spiritual and cultural in structure, tone, and thrust. This Wesleyan edition includes the original illustrations by Wifredo Lam, and an introduction, notes, and chronology by A. James Arnold.

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Doubleyoutee Publishing

Retour

Tato Greve

Poetry €14.00

Retour is a book featuring a collection of drawings made on train journeys between Belgium and the Netherlands. It combines hand-written typography and train interiors, subtly highlighting cultural differences forming the countries’ border. 

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The Last Books

First Nettles

Dom Hale

Poetry €15.00

First Nettles collects poems written between 2021 and 2024, from precarious off-key lyrics to sprawling elegies of damaged life. A book of flailing, desperate music, hurt and hopeful, held together by pins and gaffer tape, art and courage and comradeship. Includes the sequence “Seizures” (2022) – “perfect in its openness and lyrical disfigurement” (Danny Hayward).

“[An] exhilarating collection […]. The sequences here are ferociously and admirably radical, with some superb political satire and verve to the poems.”  —Adam Piette, Blackbox Manifold, no. 34 

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