Paal Bjelke Andersen: The Grefsen Address

"Probing the linguistics of imagined communities – in this case the mediated rhetorical politics of the "nordic community" – Andersen pits national languages against the larger territories they construct. The Grefsen Address samples the vocabulary of national conflict and contiguity ("border"; "war"; language" et cetera) in the televised speeches of Nordic Presidents or Prime Ministers during the first decade of the 21st century. At the same time, he makes an analogous territorial catalogue of his own personal geography and its areas of inclusion and conflict, notating the civic streets and commercial entities crossed in his walks between his home and the Norwegian parliament. Between location and locution ("address", in both its senses), between the discretely local and the shared assemblage, the word and the action, Andersen traces the terms by which we describe and construct political space." - Craig Dworkin

The Grefsen Address: 19x19 cm, 192 pages, ISBN 978-952-215-120-9, Graphic Design by Make Copies and Paal Bjelke Andersen

Price EUR 19,20

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Teemu Helle: Oy

Oy päättää Teemu Helteen "Vastuu"-trilogian, jonka aiemmat osat ovat sorta vala ja Kiss ash (molemmat ntamo 2009).

Viitekehyksenä on nyt nyt: tilanne, missä kaikki on kaupan eikä mikään ole pyhää.

"Ja itke, seimi."

Oy: 19x19 cm, 74 sivua, ISBN 978-952-215-096-7, taitto Teemu Helle ja Make Copies, kansi Make Copies

Ovh 17,50

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kirjantamo.net EUR 14,00 sis. toimituskulut Suomeen

Charles Bernstein: Parsing / Jäsentäen

A seminal early work by the influential, innovative American poet, in English-Finnish bilingual edition (translated into Finnish by Leevi Lehto) and with an interview with the author by Chinese scholar, Nie Zhenzhao, as an appendix.

"In this work I was interested in repetition as a form of reiteration, insistence in Gertrude Stein’s sense. There is also a relation to the minimalist music of Steve Reich and also his own interest in repetitive and highly rhythmical chanting. (...) I was interested in getting to a basic unit of speech and then using that to make rhythmic compositions. (...) A kind of collective plaint of despair or melancholy or disappointment or separation, which is something that threads through my work and connects it, perhaps unexpectedly, to fado, blues, mourning prayers, or other forms of lament that also use repetition." (Charles Bernstein, from the interview by Nie Zhenzhao)

"[the] publication is based on the insight that a work concentrating on dismantling the context(s) will itself deserve to be detached from its contexts – translated (...) Here the translator, in stead of risking to loose or inadvertently change the ”meaning” or ”sense”, must be careful not to create it where it does not exist (...)" (Leevi Lehto, from the translator's foreword)

This is the first publication on Nie Zhenzhao's interview in book form both in English and in Finnish.

Parsing / Jäsentäen: 14,82x20,99 cm, 133 p., ISBN 978-952-215-081-3, Graphic Design Make Copies, Cover Art by Susan Bee.

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Kirja kerrallaan, Mannerheimintie 22-24, 00100 Helsinki, kirja@lasipalatsi.fi, puh. +358-(0)9-612-7798, fax +358-(0)9-6126-5715). EUR 20,00

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Aram Saroyan: happi JA MUITA MINIMALISTISIA RUNOJA

Elämä on
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herkullista.

"Kadottuaan kirjahyllyistä kolmisenkymmentä vuotta sitten Aram Saroyanin minimalistiset runot ovat vähitellen kasvaneet legendaksi. Nämä elegantit runot ennakoivat koko noiden kolmen seuranneen vuosikymmenen runouden: Languagen ankaruuden, digirunouden ja nettiestetiikan ikonisen visuaalisuuden – sekä uusimman käsitteellisen kirjallisuuden tavan sekoittaa toisiinsa prosessit ja ideat. Tämä kirja on nyt." – Kenneth Goldsmith

happi JA MUITA MINIMALISTISIA RUNOJA sisältää noin kaksi kolmasosaa Aram Saroyanin vuonna 2007 ilmestyneestä Complete Minimal Poems -teoksesta (Ugly Duckling Press) Kristian Blombergin ja Harry Salmenniemen suomentamina.

Aram Saroyan (s. 1943) on kansainvälisesti tunnettu runoilija ja romaani-, näytelmä-, muistelma- ja elämäkertakirjailija. Complete Minimal Poems sai vuoden 2008 William Carlos Williams -palkinnon (valitsijana Ron Silliman).

happi JA MUITA MINIMALISTISIA RUNOJA: 19x19 cm, 172 s., ISBN 978-952-215-061-5, taitto ja kansi Make Copies.

Myynti

Kirja kerrallaan, Mannerheimintie 22-24, 00100 Helsinki, kirja@lasipalatsi.fi, puh. +358-(0)9-612-7798, fax +358-(0)9-6126-5715). EUR 22,51

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geof huth: a book of poems so small I cannot taste them

is a book of tiny poems, a book of thoughts, a book of winter. It makes its
points known through small clusters of words, words meant to accumulate like snowflakes into a covering of snow - the countryside, the city, your backyard reduced to their essentials, all irrelevant details excised, the earth simplified to whiteness, to a cold stare, to simple contemplation, a place within the word, the mind so wrapped around a thought that it disappears into that spot the farthest from movement, the cold coming in now, and you do not notice it. This book, being about winter, is published in Finland, a land renowned for its ability to accept snow and the pleasures thereof.

Geof Huth, born 1960, is a well known American poet and theoretician of visual poetry. He lives in Schenectady, New York, and his influential blog, dbqp, is to be found here.

a book of poems so small I cannot taste them was published Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, the day of the first snow in the South of Finland.

a book of poems so small I cannot taste them, 7,5x7,5", 88 pages, ISBN 978-952-215-050-9. Book design and cover illustrations by Geof Huth. Thanks to mIEKAL aND for technical support.

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Kirja kerrallaan, Mannerheimintie 22-24, 00100 Helsinki, kirja@lasipalatsi.fi, puh. +358-(0)9-612-7798, fax +358-(0)9-6126-5715). EUR 20,00

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