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Rather than argue against the denigration and abjection of translation - and most foreign texts - this book investigates those dark zones of expulsion as grounds for new possibilities, not just for translation but for literature as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49926293127441,"sku":"CIN193481959XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51699435405585,"sku":"NIN9781934819593","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/193481959X.jpg?v=1750804763"},{"product_id":"entrance-to-a-colonial-pageant-in-which-we-all-begin-to-intricate-book-johannes-goransson-9780982541654","title":"Entrance to a Colonial Pageant in Which We All Begin to Intricate","description":"Poetry. Cross-Genre. Fiction. Drama. It would take a miracle to perform this pageant. For a start, you would have to reanimate Charlotte Bront , Adolf Loos, and Ronald Reagan, and you would need an ungodly amount of wax. Most of the action is obscene, and therefore takes place offstage. The actors enter and report on scenes of spectacular violence that go on all the time every day. The audience is part of the spectacle too. We are all transformed into images somewhere in this script. At one point, all of Hollywood appears onstage on the form of dead horses, perhaps because Hollywood film continues to rely on narrative conventions that it exhausted long ago. The entire world also appears, played by a boy who, in a series of rapid costume changes, puts on increasingly pretty dresses--Aaron Kunin.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50376142094609,"sku":"CIN0982541651G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0982541651.jpg?v=1751141401"},{"product_id":"haute-surveillance-book-johannes-goransson-9781939460004","title":"Haute Surveillance","description":"Fiction. Poetry. Maybe I should try to wake up. Maybe I should try and forget about Father Voice-Over. Maybe I should try and look away--but I can't. 'News organizations are setting up temporary stations in the mansion. When do you expect the Black Man to show up, one reporter asks me. I'm wearing a new suit, which was made in China, by a Chinese child listening to a mechanical bird tell them about Art.' 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Göransson's poetry is a film that Death peeks at, the scene of shooting the film, the film shot on a roll of film, the movie theatre, the Arcadia. A single poem is the world's interior and exterior, it convulses wildly like an animal that has eaten the poem's interior and exterior all together with silver. bang bang.\"--Kim Hyesoon\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"'I make a language out of the bleed-through.' Göransson sure as fuck does. These poems made me cry. 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This necessary book strips away the various illusions that have obscured poetry's truest values. Göransson concludes: 'This is written without hope.' But paradoxically, POETRY AGAINST ALL offers just that.\"--Jeff Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Moralists who find themselves clutching their pearls about this book of noir perversions should read less literally and see that Göransson's POETRY AGAINST ALL--for all its anti-libidinous interrogations of pornography, the Holocaust, and cadavers--concerns some of the most relatably humanist emotions of all: grief, the meaning of home, and the protectiveness one has about one's children. 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