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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea Yukio Mishima trans. John Nathan Vintage Books/Random House 1965 $12.95 USD NY

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Dove Street Henry Gould 2007 lulu.com

Love, Like Pronouns Rosmarie Waldrop 119pp. 2003 Omnidawn $12.95US

Semiramis If I Remember (self-portrait as mask) Keith Waldrop 113pp. Avec Books 2001 $12.95US

Journals

Chicago Review 53:2/3 ed. Joshua Kotin & Robert P. Baird feat. C.D. Wright, Larissa Szporluk, William Fuller, John Peck, Juliana Spahr, Stephanie Young, etc Autumn/Winter 2007 245pp.

Verse “French Poetry & Poetics” Volume 24, Number 1-3 ed. Brian Henry & Andrew Zawacki feat. Emmanuel Hocquard, Caroline Dubois, Jacqueline Risset, Pierre Alferi, etc 2007 365pp. $15US

Redactions: Poetry & Poetics Issue 10 Merwin Tribute Issue ed. Tom, Mike, & Michelle feat. Justin Vicari, Adam Peterson, Sarah Perrier, etc 2007 77pp. $8US

Descant 138: Fashion ed. Karen Mulhallen feat. Sara Diamond, Camilla Singh, David Livingstone, Kris Knight, etc Fall 2007 287pp. $16CAD

And The Following Books From Burning Deck Press (with many thanks to Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop)

Skyblue’s Essays Dallas Wiebe 153pp. 1995 $8.95US

The Vox Populi Street Stories Dallas Wiebe 305pp. 2003 $15US

Dunce Cap Alison Bundy 128pp. 1998 $10US

ancestors maybe Elizabeth MacKiernan 159pp. 1993 $8US

Troubled By His Complexion Lissa McLaughlin 126pp. 1998 $8US

Five On Fiction Janet Kauffman 64pp. 2004 $10US

The House Jane Unrue 59pp. 2000 $10US

Life Moves Outside Barbara Einzig 62pp. $7US

The Capture of Trieste Tom Ahern 66pp. $3US

Innocence In Extremis John Hawkes 92pp. 1985 $8US

One Score More: The Second 20 Years of Burning Deck, 1981-2001 240pp. 2002 $15US

Analogies of Escape Keith Waldrop 80pp. 1997 $10US

Sarx Pascal Quignard trans. Keith Waldrop 37pp. 1997 $5US

Close Quote Marie Borel trans. Keith Waldrop 27pp. 2003 $5US

Xq28 Jennifer Martenson 17pp. 2001 $5US

Ring Rang Wrong Suzanne Doppelt trans. Cole Swenson 67pp. 2004 $14US

Six Minnesinger Songs W.D. Snodgrass 1983

Boudica Paol Keineg Serie D’Ecriture No. Eight 40pp. 1994 $6US

An Earth Of Time Jean Grosjean Serie D’Ecriture No. 18 92pp. 2006 $14US

Even A Child Alain Veinstein trans. Robert kocik & Rosmarie Waldrop Serie D’Ecriture No. 11 60pp. 1997 $10US

The World Was A Bubble Patrick Fetherston 1979 $3.50US

Free Rein Laura Chester 68pp. 1988 $7US

Overboard Beth Anderson 77pp. 2004 $10US

Many Glove Compartments: Selected Poems Oskar Partior trans. Harry Matthews, Christopher Middleton, & Rosmarie Waldrop 120pp. 2001 $10US

Heiligenanstalt Friederike Mayrocker trans. Rosmarie Waldrop Dichten= 94pp. 1994 $8US

Secret Histories Craig Watson 75pp. 2007 $14US

Realism Tom Mandel 73pp. 1991 $8US

Stromata David Miller 55pp. 1992 $8US

Varieties of Religious Experience Ray Ragosta 75pp. 1993 $8US

Hourglass Transcripts Susan Gevirtz 69pp. 2001 $10US

Perspective Would Have Us Erica Carpenter 68pp. 2006 $14US

Parts of the Mass Catherine Imbriglio 59pp. 2007 $14US

Strabismus Brian Schorn 61pp. 1995 $8US

After Calculus Craig Watson 68pp. 1988 $7US

stare decisis Gale Nelson 143pp. 1991 $9US

Lingos I-IX Ulf Stolterfoht trans. Rosmarie Waldrop Dichten= no.9 126pp. 1998 $14US

The Will To Sickness Gerhard Roth trans. Tristram Wolff Dichten= no.8 114pp. 2006 $14US

I My Feet: Poems & Constellations Gerhard Ruhm selected and trans. by Rosmarie Waldrop Dichten= no.7 119pp. 2004 $10US

The Trip To Bordeaux Ludwig Harig trans. Susan Bernofsky Dichten= no.6 103pp. 2003 $10US

Steppe Ilma Rakusa trans. Solveig Emerson Dichten= no.3 78pp. 1997 $10US

The Peacock Emperor Moth Marcel Cohen trans. Cid Corman Serie D’Ecriture No. Nine 106pp. 1995 $8US

A Test of Solitude Emmanuel Hocquard trans. Rosmarie Waldrop Serie D’Ecriture No. 12 72pp. 2000 $10US

The Translation Begins Jacqueline Risset trans. Jennifer Moxley Serie D’Ecriture No. 10 96pp. 1996 $10US

On Wooden Tablets: Apronenia Avitia Pascal Quignard trans. Bruce X Serie D’Ecriture No. 15 107pp. 2001 $10US

Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France ed./trans. by Norma Cole Serie D’Ecriture No. 13/14 160pp. 2000 $15US

A Lesson In Music Jean Daive trans. Julie Kalendek Serie D’Ecriture No. 6 62pp. 1992 $6US

mental ground Esther Tellerman trans. Keith Waldrop Serie D’Ecriture No.16 74pp. 2002 $10US

99: The New Meaning Walter Abisb 110pp. 1990 $8US

Forthcoming From Parsifal Editions Winter 2007-08

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RASP & Elektra, companion plays by Josepha Gutelius

How To Break Article Noun, a novella by Carolyn Chun

Promenade, poems by Robert Fernandez

The President In Her Towers, prose by Tom Whalen

Opening The Seals, poems by Robert Kelly

Calling All Artists

2007-10-24T19:15:00.000-07:00

Parsifal Editions/The Modern Review seeks artist/illustrator contacts for potential journal/book covers.

No pay, just love.

Contact: Simone dos Anjos

Call For Submissions

2007-10-18T00:13:00.000-07:00

The Modern Review seeks poetry & prose for upcoming winter issue (III.2).

Submission Guidelines

Review: The Little Girl and the Cigarette

2007-09-27T01:38:00.000-07:00

The Little Girl and the Cigarette
Benoît Duteurtre

trans. Charlotte Mandell
ISBN 978-1-933633-12-1
$14.95 US / $20.95 CAN
Melville House Publishing
Hoboken, New Jersey 2006

“The law said the condemned man could have a final cigarette. Another law said it was a no-smoking prison. Welcome to the future.”

Originally published in France as La petite fille et la cigarette by Librarie Arthème Fayard in 2005, the essence of Benoît Duteurtre’s The Little Girl and the Cigarette was perfectly captioned by Milan Kundera who blurbed “…the clarity with which this novel unmasks the fundamental stupidity of our modern world; the black humor that transforms horror into a fascinating danse macabre.”

The opening line cleverly foreshadows the fates of the two men the story concerns, with

“Each of the two texts seemed indisputable… except that they led to opposite conclusions.”

The first man, Désiré Johnson, is “a tall young black man” on death row for the murder of a policeman. The second man (whose chapters are writ in first person, making him our sometime narrator) remains nameless. Furthermore, he works for the government of a nameless country.

The first chapter covers what was to be Johnson’s execution day, but we quickly learn that is not to be when his final wish to smoke a cigarette uncovers a life-saving loophole via conflicting articles between Government law and prison policies:

According to Government law, the condemned man, Désiré Johnson, was acting entirely within his rights when he invoked Article 47 of the Code of Application of Punishments, which authorized him to have one last smoke before execution. Whereas on his side, Mr. Quam Lao Ching, warden of the penitentiary, strictly applied paragraph 176.b of the prison policies, which prohibited Johnson from lighting that cigarette. Added a year earlier under pressure of the Associations for Defense of Public Health, this addendum banned consumption of tobacco within the confines of the prison. Obviously, the idea of defending the health of a man condemned to death could be considered puzzling, unless you viewed it as a refinement of cruelty; but such a measure, made for the benefit of the majority, would admit no qualification. From another point of view, Article 47, although it had fallen into abeyance, unquestionably authorized the prisoner to drag on the last few puffs through which his final wish was breathed out.

A perfect example of “the fundamental stupidity of our modern world”, the stupidity of extreme logic exercised on the trivial concerns of adult humans, this loophole serves to postpone Johnson’s execution until the conflict is resolved by the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, we learn more of Nameless’ life. He is a middle-aged heterosexual clerk who has lived for three years in a “pretty, modest little house” that he shares with a lithe and liberal companion named Latifa, and their spaniel called Sarko (nickname of France’s current president). Here Nameless describes his relationship with Latifa:

Latifa and I have in common a lack of ambition. My diplomas pointed to a brilliant ascension to the ministerial cabinets, provided I devoted the necessary amount of time to scheming. Instead of that, at the age of forty-five, I remained a modest technical advisor to the city. Latifa, with her intelligence and her charm, could have become a fashionable journalist… We both made the same calculation: namely that with a little inheritance (which she had from her mother), my decent salary, a keen taste for life, a curiosity for art, pretty landscapes and all the good things in life, it would be possible to lead a much more interesting existence than the one that consists in tirelessly conquering ever higher positions and better salaries to pay the previous year’s taxes.

Nameless also notes several times that Latifa “…prefers men to kids, even though, from time to time, the wish for a child gnaws at her despite [his] efforts to divert her from those evil thoughts.” This brings me to if not the most important then certainly the most emphasized element of Duteurtre’s anti-hero: his aversion to children. I’ll now provide some insight into the inspiration of Nameless’ frustrations, and the role that children play in this modern drama.

“…from now on, in this country, children represent the law.”

Administration City, the government offices where Nameless is employed, has undergone one major change since the city’s present ultra-neo-Marxist mayor came into office-- it opened its doors to children:

Our mayor-- who is also my boss-- shows genius everytime it’s a question of soothing public opinion about “more equality between the sexes,” “more room for bicyclists and the handicapped,” “a more humane city and a more transparent management,” and, naturally, “more attention paid to children.” Before his triumphal election, he had added to his program a plan aiming to transform a part of Administration City, where the main services of the city have their headquarters, into a daycare center. A few months later, the whole left wing of out office building was converted into a nursery, complete with a special entrance reserved for moms and their progeny.

Nameless goes on to disdainfully describe the chaotic reign of the children over his place of employment, as well as the altered adult attitudes in the presence of children, most notably “the mistrustful looks when the personnel came in, when [the childcare attendants] briskly demanded to see our badges, without making the slightest effort to recognize us from one day to the next.” It is this mistrust that naturally prevents these two worlds, adult and child, from harmonizing. It is this mistrust that leads Nameless to the heights of his disdain, this mistrust which will eventually destroy his life.

I fear I have already divulged too much, but when Nameless rebels against building policy and smokes a cigarette in a toilet cubicle, his pants down in the name of realism lest anyone catch sight of his ankles from the opposite side of the door, and when a little girl wanders into the bathroom, and, caught in the act, Nameless exclaims “Get out of here, you stupid idiot!”, all hell breaks loose. Hell-Breaking-Loose equation: a money-hungry mother, an impressionable little girl, and a justice-crazed administration. Suddenly our narrator is a social outcast and deemed a criminal of the most unsavory sort, seeking help from the same mediocre lawyer as Johnson, and the simple (and seemingly-sturdy) life and love he shared with Latifa is instantly shattered as she too turns zombie with mistrust.

What follows is a side by side two-sides-to-every-story misadventure, the playing out of the cigarette-spurred cases of both Johnson and Nameless, told with great sportscaster-like irony. It would be insufficient to call the approach desensitized. It is chilling, a modern nightmare, a grim picture of what we call “civilization”. Readers witness the dance of death in a starkly literal sense, and feel themselves a part of a great tragedy, kin to Othello. The Little Girl and the Cigarette questions our good intentions, and leaves us godless on that road to a hell we govern ourselves.

--Simone dos Anjos, September 2007

Attention All Bibliophiles

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The UC Press Dirt Cheap Online Sale

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Poems & Plays 12 ed.Gaylord Brewer Spring/Summer 2005 84pp. Middle Tennessee State University $6.00 US

The Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives Mel Freilicher 2007 135pp. City Works Press San Diego $12.95 US

Atacama Poems Adrián Arancibia 2007 91pp. City Works Press San Diego $12.95 US

Trencher’s Anabasis Joseph Tornatore 2006 187pp. Scaramouch Press, an imprint of I Libri del Sole Geneva, Illinois

Review: The Middle Room by Jennifer Moxley

2007-09-16T17:55:00.000-07:00

The Middle Room

Jennifer Moxley
ISBN 1-930068-36-0
Subpress 2007
Berkeley, CA

The Middle Room is the memoir of poet Jennifer Moxley, with focus on her time spent at UC San Diego.

Several months ago, when Jennifer first mentioned that she’d completed a memoir manuscript, I was surprised-- she’s quite young, very young, when we’re talking poets-- I wondered, “Why so soon? Why now?” After reading The Middle Room, a mammoth of a book (633 pp.) elegantly designed and published by the excellent people of Subpress, I understood the urgency.

I’m rarely impressed by first lines, but The Middle Room opens on a precise note, with “Imagination and reality are forever at odds”, and thus it goes on to prove, set against the complex backdrop of Moxley’s history, as the poet’s internal and external experiences conflict.

We come into contact with many versions of Moxley, from the five year old daughter of bookish Jo on Albatross Street, to the tempestuous teenager, with “the soul of a girl deeply committed to the drama of a passionately lived life”, and finally the young adult who has written a poem and suspects she may be a poet. Suspicion is a good word here. Moxley seems a suspicious reporter of her younger self’s motivations and doings, always more critical and objective than sympathetic. At times her candid captions not only made me laugh, but rendered me shocked by their humility and willingness to dissect something as tender as youthhood. The Middle Room makes a science of honesty, and Moxley’s account leaves readers feeling just as naked (if not the more naked of the two) for its facts laid bare in the name of human nature.

I mention how the book often made me laugh. I think this is perhaps the first thing I began telling friends about the book, as it had me in fits from the very first chapter. Moxley is a fan of comedy, and herein perfects her own dry variety that is at once a voodoo blend of starkly modern satire and good old fashioned witticism.

Like all life stories, there is also much sadness, events and truths like dark clouds drifting throughout the book, animated and poignant reminders of the poet’s struggle to find peace, but Moxley is resilient in the rain, and pushes the reader ever on to the next chapter, the next wave of change that would renew her interest in being alive.

It’s an important read for any admirer of Moxley’s poetry, but my recommendation does not stop there. I recommend you read this book if you are in an MFA program. I recommend this book to those with few literary connections, looking to live vicariously. But above all others I recommend this book to those literary persons who take themselves too seriously.

Through all its people, places, and early poems, The Middle Room is consistently alert, taking in what you are thinking as much as it is supplying you those thoughts. The character of Young Moxley is as unsettling as she is endearing, and where the book may open with something like chaos, it closes with such understanding and calm, satisfying the teeth as much as the brain and heart. By the end you’ve witnessed something so pure in its sense of realism, so candidly accounted, alluringly intimate, and rich in detail and subtext, that you wish to spend several more weeks in The Middle Room, in the company of the Albatross Street cherub, the ardent teenage Jenny, and the poet Jennifer Moxley.

--Simone dos Anjos, September 2007

The Modern Review III.1

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THE MODERN REVIEW III.1

Vol. III, Issue 1 of the Modern Review is now available and can be ordered online through Paypal. Selections from the issue are on our website.

http://www.modern-review.com/

In this issue:

Poetry by Noah Eli Gordon, Jared White, Rebecca Stoddard, Tom Whalen, S.M. Stone, Thomas Heise, Barbara Claire Freeman, Cyrus Console, Luis Felipe Fabre (trans. Jason Stumpf), Robert Fernandez, Thomas Hummel, Ange Mlinko, Peter O'Leary, Tomaz Salamun (trans. Brian Henry), & Simon Perchik

Reviews by Eirik Steinhoff & Simona Schneider

Fiction by Janice J. Heiss, Socorro Venegas (Trans. Toshiya Kamei), Tom Whalen, & D.E. Steward

Also in this issue:

Subject and Matter: Three Young Poets (Interviews with Cyrus Console, Thomas Heise, & Robert Fernandez)

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The Middle Room Jennifer Moxley 2007 633pp. Subpress Berkeley, California $25.00 US

Unknowne Land Eléna Rivera 2000 55pp. Kelsey St. Press $10.00 US

The Canary 6 eds. Joshua Edwards, Anthony Robinson, Nick Twemlow 2007 127 pp. Canary River feat. Ange Mlinko, John Ashbery, Marcella Durand, Thomas Heise, Thomas Hummel $10.00 US

The Meaning of Flowers: Myth, Language, & Lore Gretchen Scoble & Ann Field 1998 105pp. Chronicle Books San Francisco $16.95 US

Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952-1954 Kenneth Koch 2004 141pp. Alfred A. Knopf New York $15.00 US

Girogio de Chirico: The Endless Journey Wieland Schmied 2002 128pp. Pegasus Library

Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons & The Meanings Behind Them Hans Biedermann, trans. James Hulbert 1992 465pp. Meridian (of Penguin) $24.00 US

Beloit Poetry Journal 58:1 eds. Lee Sharkey & John Rosenwald Fall 2007 48pp. feat. Gary Finke, Clare Rossini, Albert Goldbarth, Jeneva Stone $5.00 US

New from Parsifal Press:

2007-08-08T15:35:00.000-07:00

Rafts by Simon Perchik

Parsifal Editions 2007
ISBN 978-0-9739960-3-6
79 Pages (paper)
$13.95 US
$16.00 CAD

Parsifal Press is pleased to announce the publication of Simon Perchik’s RAFTS.

Please visit our website for samples from the book and online purchase:

http://www.parsifal-editions.com

Rafts is another entry in the extraordinary lyric opus composed by Simon Perchik over the last five decades or so. Its poems of loss and learning, of mythic truths at the brink of the grave, where a reclaimed animism gives voice to stones and seas, to lonely stars and lowly bathroom faucets, make heavy narrative demands. But they gift the reader with fluent elisions into Nietzsche’s Dionysiac woods: “You can tell this sink lost interest/ though hour after hour you hum/ another love song.” -Edward Butscher

Simon Perchik, an attorney, was born 1923 in Paterson, NJ and educated at New York University (BA English, LLB Law). His poems have appeared in various literary journals including Partisan Review, Poetry, Chelsea, The Modern Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, among others.

Review copies are available upon request. Query us with your interest.

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Forthcoming from Parsifal Press:

The Ballads of RASP/Elektra, drama by Josepha Gutelius, Fall 2007

Opening The Seals, poems by Robert Kelly, Winter 2007

The President In Her Towers, fiction by Tom Whalen, Spring 2008

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The Children’s Museum Ange Mlinko 2007 13pp. Prefontaine Press*

The Art of Poetry & Collected Poetry David Antoniuk 2007 450pp.

Horror Vacui Thomas Heise April 2005 96pp. Sarabande Books $13.95 US

Technicolored Jason Guriel 2006 85pp. Exile Editions $11.95 US

Pressed Wafer 1 ed. Daniel Bouchard, William Corbett, Joseph Torra March 2000 149pp. feat. Michael Palmer, James Schuyler, Ann Kim, etc. $10.00 US

Pressed Wafer 2 (feat. a tribute to Joe Brainard) ed. Daniel Bouchard, William Corbett, Joseph Torra March 2001 275pp. feat. Anselm Berrigan, Lee Ann Brown, Peter Gizzi, Ange Mlinko, Cedar Sigo, etc. $12.50 US

Three Letters from the City: The St. Petersburg Poems, 1968-98 Nathaniel Tarn, trans. Julia Kunina (Trubikhina) 98pp. The Weaselsleeves Press Santa Fe, New Mexico $9.75 US

Arkansas Fred Moten 2000 Pressed Wafer Books $5.00 US

In Residence Beth Anderson Pressed Wafer Books $5.00 US

Wrackline Daniel Bouchard 1999 Situations New York

Cheeseburgers Mark Lamoureux 2004 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

Loss Benjamin Friedlander 2003 Pressed Wafer $5.00

August Letter to My Wife and Daughters Joseph Torra 2000 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

Reeling In Slow Motion Patricia Scanlan 2002 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

Poems Fred Moten and Jim Behrle 2002 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

Copper Mike County 2003 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

Windows Patricia Pruitt 2002 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

Eight Positive Trees Karen Weiser 2002 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

Cinema Yosemite Del Ray Cross 2001 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

My Understanding Stephen Clair 2003 Pressed Wafer $5.00

In A Glass Box Brenda Iijima 2002 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

Kidnap Notes Next: Selected Notebook Entries 1988-1999 John Wieners 2002 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

Blind Angel Askold Melnyczuk 2002 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

backandforth William Corbett 2001 Pressed Wafer $5.00 US

*For purchasing information contact Ryan Murphy of Prefontaine Press at 121 LaSalle St. #6, NY, NY 10027

The Updates

2007-07-09T21:12:00.000-07:00

The State - Jennifer Moxley

Hades - James Siegel

About My Memory, Pete - Simone dos Anjos

The Apothecary's Daughter - Eben J. Gering

Dahlias and Stuff - John Latta

Minus Five - Evan Lavender-Smith

Anthony's Season - Louis Malloy

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2007-06-30T19:02:00.000-07:00

Green and Gray Geoffrey G. O’Brien April 2007 102pp. University of California Press $19.95 US

A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow Noah Eli Gordon 2007 89pp. Winner of the 2006 Green Rose Prize New Issues WMU $14.00 US

inbox [a reverse memoir] Noah Eli Gordon 78pp. BlazeVOX [books] $12.00 US

The Frequencies Noah Eli Gordon 88pp. Tougher Disguises Press, ed. James Meetze $12.00 US

The Area of Sound Called The Subtone Noah Eli Gordon 110pp. Winner 2004 Sawtooth Poetry Prize Ahsahta Press $16.95 US

The Line Jennifer Moxley 2007 56pp. The Post-Apollo Press $15.00 US

the Poker 8 May 2007 ed. Daniel Bouchard 102pp. feat. Noah Eli Gordon, Landis Everson, Robert Kelly, + an interview with Jennifer Moxley $10.00 US

Conjunctions:48 Faces of Desire ed. Bradford Morrow 409pp. feat. Cole Swensen, Brian Evenson, Robert Kelly, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Donald Revell, etc. $15.00 US

Chicago Review 53:1 British Poetry Issue ed. Joshua Kotin 232pp. feat. Andrea Brady, Peter Manson, Chris Goode, Forrest Gander, Simon Jarvis, etc. $12.00 US

Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, Issue 8/9 ed. Michelle, Mike, & Tom 102pp. feat. James Grinwis, Gerry LaFemina, Keith Montesano, etc. $8.00 US

Johanna Poems Ben Mazer 22pp. Saddle-Stitched Cy Gist Press $6.00 US

Gender Trouble Judith Butler 236pp. Routledge Classics $19.95 US

Powers Of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Julia Kristeva 219pp. Columbia University Press $24.46 US