Franz Kamin Libri

Franz Kamin's innovative works blend genres, showcasing his talents as a writer, composer, and performance artist. This collection features his earlier books, including the avant-garde "Scribble Death," which intertwines dream narratives with themes of death and obsession, creating a post-modern Gothic experience. Kamin's style merges playful and serious elements, drawing from topology and linguistics while maintaining a deeply emotional core. His unique approach evokes both humor and the grotesque, offering a profound exploration of creativity and the human psyche.

At the heart of Michael Boughn’s Measure’s Measures are fundamental questions about poetry’s relation to modes of knowing the world beyond what’s given. Lovingly addressed to the work of poets associated with the New American Poetry and their predecessors, these essays probe the development of what Boughn calls the somatic poetics of transformative gnosis. Boughn’s method combines a wide range of scholarship with his affectionate personal knowledge of many of the poets, and a radically decentered view of the stakes poetry brings to considerations of our post-modern moment. Rethinking the history of 20th century US American poetry, these essays challenge the academic containment of poetry to literary studies, opening it into a thriving wilderness of thinking being.