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  • Paul Verlaine – The Cursed Poets
    Paul Verlaine – The Cursed Poets
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    Assembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of The Cursed Poets (Les Poètes maudits) was published in 1888. Arthur Rimbaud, the boy with whom Paul Verlaine had […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
    Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
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    The Nasr family is spread across the globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ismail Kadare – The Successor
    Ismail Kadare – The Successor
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    A fictionalized political tale based on true-life events and the author’s conversations with the victim’s son follows the events surrounding the death of Mehmet Shehu, a hand-picked [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jens Peter Jacobsen – Niels Lyhne
    Jens Peter Jacobsen – Niels Lyhne
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    Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women—including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Victor Serge – Last Times
    Victor Serge – Last Times
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    Last Times, Victor Serge’s epic novel of the fall of France, is based—like much of his fiction—on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last days of Paris […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
    Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
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    In 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
    Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
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    Jean Genet’s essay on Giacometti paired with photos of his work and studio. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN Scheidegger & Spiess, 2004 Hardcover edition. Light general wear. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
    Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
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    Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays—meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems—and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Cocteau – The White Book
    Jean Cocteau – The White Book
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    Le Livre Blanc, a “white paper” on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau’s contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Structure Of Magic II
    The Structure Of Magic II
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    These seminal works in neurolinguistic programming (NLP) help therapists understand how people create inner models of the world to represent their experience and guide their behavior. Volume I [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
    Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
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    Doruntine or Who brought Dorontine is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine Book is in “Like New” […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
    Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
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    Jenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
    Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
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    The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ken Schles – Night Walk
    Ken Schles – Night Walk
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    Twenty-five years after the printing of his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ursula K. Le Guin – Conversations On Writing
    Ursula K. Le Guin – Conversations On Writing
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    When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • H.D – Nights
    H.D – Nights
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    H.D.’s Nights is about one woman’s attempt to get to the essence of her bisexuality and failed marriage through an illicit heterosexual affair––an attempt that eventually ends in suicide. Much [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Unica Zurn – Dark Spring
    Unica Zurn – Dark Spring
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    Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zürn traces the roots to her obsessions: the exotic father […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cornelia Parker – Verso
    Cornelia Parker – Verso
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    This diminutive artists book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. Verso is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rachel Kushner – The Flame Throwers
    Rachel Kushner – The Flame Throwers
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    Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alasdair Gray – Of Me And Others
    Alasdair Gray – Of Me And Others
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    Engraved on the wall outside the Scottish Parliament are the words “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.” Attributed to Alasdair Gray, Scotland’s national […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Williams – Stoner
    John Williams – Stoner
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    William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Rodenbach – The Bells Of Bruges
    Georges Rodenbach – The Bells Of Bruges
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    There are three loves in the life of Joris Borluut, the town carillonneur of Bruges. He marries the fiery Barbe, whose dark beauty is a reminder of Belgium’s Spanish heritage. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mathias Enard – Zone
    Mathias Enard – Zone
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    Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He’s carrying a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • George Konrad – The City Builder
    George Konrad – The City Builder
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    An architect in an unnamed city considers his life, his work, and the many-layered history of the city he and his family―architects all―have contributed to building. In the days after […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Celine – Rigadoon
    Celine – Rigadoon
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    Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marlen Haushofer – The Loft
    Marlen Haushofer – The Loft
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    A 1960s Austrian housewife is forced to re-examine her past when pages from old diaries begin to arrive mysteriously in the letter box at her family home. Each day after […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Olga Tokarczuk – Primeval And Other Times
    Olga Tokarczuk – Primeval And Other Times
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    Set in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated with eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, this novel from Nobel Prize winner Olga [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
    Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
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    Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stig Dagerman – Sleet
    Stig Dagerman – Sleet
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    A selection of stories from Sweden’s greatest post-war writer. “Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Thomas Bernhard – Extinction (1st US Edition)
    Thomas Bernhard – Extinction (1st US Edition)
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    The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau—the intellectual black sheep of a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Claude Simon – The World About Us
    Claude Simon – The World About Us
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    A loosely related series of scenes from the past and the present are combined in a fictional collage. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Plague Mother – Carrying Your Halo
    Plague Mother – Carrying Your Halo
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    For more than a decade Plague Mother has occupied a highly influential position in the noise underground. The artist boasts a unique sound that blends haunting ambiance with crushing walls […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Breaking The Will – Mortal Terrain Incendiary
    Breaking The Will – Mortal Terrain Incendiary
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    Human terrain systems. Operational art. Combat maneuver. Unrelenting harsh electronics exploding at a breakneck pace. The first Breaking The Will full-length since 2015’s “Choosing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Richard Ramirez – Volume 2
    Richard Ramirez – Volume 2
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    New Forces is proud to present Richard Ramirez Volume 2, a 6-CD boxset compiling some of the best work by noise legend Richard Ramirez: Supply and Shutdown, Nature’s Afterbirth, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
    Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
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    Form Hunter returns with their first full-length album since 2021’s “Violent Adaptation” (Troniks / Helicopter). Dread Harvest refines their signature blend of in-the-red tape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Commuter – No Longer Penitent
    Commuter – No Longer Penitent
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    “No Longer Penitent” is the new full-length from Commuter, a project from Portland’s Jackson Abdul-Salaam (Herukrat, Junta Cadre) that blends harsh noise and urban field [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Koufar – The Death Of Myself
    Koufar – The Death Of Myself
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    To celebrate the tenth anniversary of New Forces we are excited to reissue an album from the label’s first batch of releases. At the time, Koufar’s “The Death of Myself” [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Cryocene – Exclave
    Cryocene – Exclave
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    “Exclave” is the debut of NYC-based duo Cryocene, comprised of Stefan Aune (Kjostad) and Matt Boettke (Scant). Over the course of 5 tracks Cryocene weave together an ominous landscape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jerman* / Nordwall* – Topology
    Jerman* / Nordwall* – Topology
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    Jeph Jerman (Hands To) and Joachim Nordwall (Organ of Corti) present “Topology,” a stunning collaboration that brings out the best from both artists. Jerman’s trademark field [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hunting Lodge – Harrington Ballroom – Exhumed & Reanimated
    Hunting Lodge – Harrington Ballroom – Exhumed & Reanimated
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    Industrial legends Hunting Lodge was founded in May of 1982 by Lon C. Diehl, Carla J. Nordstrom & Richard Skott Rusch. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the band’s inception […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Vibravoid – Void Vibration
    Vibravoid – Void Vibration
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    Early 2000’s psych/space-rock that sounds beamed straight from the 70’s Label: Nasoni Records – NASONI 020 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 2003 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Toad Hall – S/T
    Toad Hall – S/T
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    Lo-fi psych with tinges of baroque pop Label: Liberty – LST-7580 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released:1968 VG+/VG+. Jacket is low end VG+, has faint shelf wear.  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Glass Prism – On Joy And Sorrow
    Glass Prism – On Joy And Sorrow
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    Gloomy psych-rock from Pennsylvania Label: RCA Victor – LSP-4270 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1970 VG+/VG+. Faint shelfwear  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Inner Dialogue – Friend
    Inner Dialogue – Friend
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    Psych-pop from California Label: Ranwood – R-8074 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released:1970 VG+/VG. Light shelf wear. Couple faint marks on record.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Atlantis Philharmonic – S/T
    Atlantis Philharmonic – S/T
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    Cleveland-based Prog Label: Dharma Records – D-802 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1974 VG+/VG+. Nice copy. Hard to notice, but there is a name written above the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Rottweiler – Haight
    Rottweiler – Haight
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    Hard-hitting acid house from Ariel Motto Label: Chicago Research – CR038 Format: CS, Album Country: US Released: 2020 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Ali* / Bordreuil* / Mattrey* – I Used To Sing So Lyrical
    Ali* / Bordreuil* / Mattrey* – I Used To Sing So Lyrical
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    JOANNA MATTREY – viola LEILA BORDREUIL – cello SEAN ALI – double bass Label: Astral Spirits – AS102 Format: CS, Album Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sfyria Trio – Rockefeller Concert
    Sfyria Trio – Rockefeller Concert
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    SAM DECKER – tenor saxophone CHARLIE KIRCHEN – bass MATT CARROLL – drums Recorded live at Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago, IL on May 30, 2017. Label: Astral Spirits – AS109 […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Mark Winter – Mosquito: The Originol Soundtrack
    Mark Winter – Mosquito: The Originol Soundtrack
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    “RA#1 Presenting … Mosquito The Originol Soundtrack …. A concept album by Mark Winter. Chime on into the mind of mosquito for its short and precious life cycle as Marky […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Space Machine – Complete Space Tuning Box CD Box Set
    Space Machine – Complete Space Tuning Box CD Box Set
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    This incredible box, released in a deluxe wooden edition with digital printing on the lid limited to 300 copies, contains the first album “Cosmos from Diode Ladder Filter” released on […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise