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Cannibal Manifesto

The Cannibal Manifesto (1928) is a celebration of Brazil’s consumptive and regenerative cultural heritage. Associated with Brazilian Modernism and São Paulo’s Week of Modern Art in 1922, the manifesto also foretells the basic aesthetic principles of Tropicália. Its iconic line cannibalizes and regurgitates a Brazil-ified Shakespeare by means of a pun using the word Tupi, a term for indigenous Brazilians: Tupi, or not Tupi, that is the question.

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Molossus-Sponsored Literature in LA: Mandy Kahn, Sophie Heawood with Whitey the Bear, and David Shook with Friends

Molossus showcase at the Silver Lake Jubilee’s Serenade Sunset.

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Travis Elborough Goes Lomo with Mexican Poets

These photographs were taken by British cult author Travis Elborough, author of The Bus We Loved: London’s Affair with the Routemaster, The Long-Player Goodbye: The Album from Vinyl to iPod and Back Again, and a forthcoming book about the British seaside. Elborough, the Poetry Translation Centre’s Mexican Poets’ Tour Manager, shoots with a 35mm Lomo [...]

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Year of Poetry: A Week with Old Friends

I’ve now been reading a book of poetry a day for over 100 days, and an update on the project is long overdue. I’ve been more consistent than I expected, catching up quickly when I lag a day or two behind (like now). The 140-character review quickly led to my addition of its 140-character excerpt [...]

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The States, Part 1: Homeland, by Nina Berman

Homeland, Nina Berman (Trolley Books) £24.99 Homeland collects photographer Nina Berman’s last seven years of exploring the way fear has manipulated American culture since the beginning of the Homeland Security Era. Her photographs do exactly what the best social commentary does: they capture the essence of things elegantly and succinctly. She’s done a good job [...]

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Reading Poems to Boston Harbor: An Interview with Translator Mark Schafer

Mark Schafer is an accomplished translator and visual artist. His latest translation to be published is a selection of David Huerta’s poems, Before Saying Any of the Great Words (Copper Canyon Press, $20).

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Poetry Machine Debut!

Molossus is proud to announce the official debut of the Poetry Machine, a 1964 candy vending machine converted to sell poems. Though its design is not yet complete, the Poetry Machine appeared on the street at 3320 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 for the 13th annual Silver Lake Art Crawl. The machine sold nine [...]

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A Conversation with Amatoritsero Ede

Amatisoritsero Ede, born in Nigeria, has been a Hindu Monk with the Hare Krishna movement and worked as a Book Editor with a major Nigerian trade publisher, Spectrum Books. His first collection of poems, Collected Poems: A Writer’s Pains & Caribbean Blues, was published in Germany and Nigeria.

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Book Syntax: In Conversation with Sally Alatalo

Sally Alatalo is Founder and Director of Sara Ranchouse Publishing, perhaps the most intriguing small press in America today, exploring the relationship between the semantics and syntax of books—the relationship and interaction between their imaginary content and their physicality.

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Spotlight China

Perhaps China’s most important contemporary performance artist, Zhang Huan’s first monograph contains images from his early performance like 65 Kilograms and 12 Square Meters, as well as his most recent work, which more heavily engages with Buddhism. Huan’s work has always emphasized struggle with the limitations of the human body, and this book includes self-portraiture, photography, sculpture, performance, and even an impressive selection of ash-on-linen drawings.

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Borders, Cantaloupes, & Comics

William Vollmann is known for his writing on poverty and violence, that coupled with his obsession with place makes him the perfect investigative writer to explore the Mexican-American border. Vollman’s 1300-page work explores almost everything there is to explore in Imperial County, California, and the Mexican borderlands beyond the Federales’ checkpoints.

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Year of Poetry Update

I’m now twenty days into the Year of Poetry experiment.

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