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Genesis P-Orridge, the mind and voice behind Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions, began their artistic journey in the 1960’s writing poetry.
Heartworm Press is proud to present hundreds of never before seen or published poems by this legendary, influential original.
Genesis P-Orridge, the mind and voice behind Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions, began their artistic journey in the 1960’s writing poetry.
This collection introduces Genesis as a thoughtful innovator and irreverent provocateur with over two decades of poetry, from beat to concrete, and shows the progression of the self, beginning the book under the given name of Neil Megson and eventually growing into the enigmatic Genesis P-Orridge.
Heartworm Press is proud to present hundreds of never before seen or published poems including 50 images with an intro by friend and collaborator Wesley Eisold.
Genesis P-Orridge (1950 – 2020) was a singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, and occultist who rose to notability as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of seminal industrial band Throbbing Gristle. P-Orridge was also a founding member of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth occult group, and fronted the experimental band Psychic TV.
Coumplete Poems – 1960’s & 70’s
by Genesis P-Orridge
Pub Date: 05/01/2023
Publisher: Heartworm Press
ISBN 979-8-9859385-2-4
SKU#: D19A
Binding: Paperback
Pages:212
Price: $ 28.00
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The City of Sleep
Over the edge of the purple down,
Where the single lamplight gleams,
Know ye the road to the Merciful Town
That is hard by the Sea of Dreams –
Where the poor may lay their wrongs away,
And the sick may forget to weep?
But we – pity us! Oh, pity us!
We wakeful; ah, pity us! –
We must go back with Policeman Day –
Back from the City of Sleep!
Weary they turn from the scroll and crown,
Fetter and prayer and plough –
They that go up to the Merciful Town,
For her gates are closing now.
It is their right in the Baths of Night
Body and soul to steep,
But we – pity us! ah, pity us!
We wakeful; oh, pity us! –
We must go back with Policeman Day –
Back from the City of Sleep!
Over the edge of the purple down,
Ere the tender dreams begin,
Look – we may look – at the Merciful Town,
But we may not enter in!
Outcasts all, from her guarded wall
Back to our watch we creep:
We – pity us! ah, pity us!
We wakeful; ah, pity us! –
We that go back with Policeman Day –
Back from the City of Sleep!
Rudyard Kipling
(1865 – 1936)
The City of Sleep
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A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.
The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, vexed, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature.
Scholars admit that the Bard’s biography is a “black hole,” yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) “immoral.”
In Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, journalist and literary critic Elizabeth Winkler sets out to probe the origins of this literary taboo.
Whisking readers from London to Stratford-upon-Avon to Washington, DC, she pulls back the curtain to show how the forces of nationalism and empire, religion and mythmaking, gender and class have shaped our admiration for Shakespeare across the centuries.
As she considers the writers and thinkers—from Walt Whitman to Sigmund Freud to Supreme Court justices—who have grappled with the riddle of the plays’ origins, she explores who may perhaps have been hiding behind his name.
A forgotten woman? A disgraced aristocrat? A government spy? Hovering over the mystery are Shakespeare’s plays themselves, with their love for mistaken identities, disguises, and things never quite being what they seem.
As she interviews scholars and skeptics, Winkler’s interest turns to the larger problem of historical truth—and of how human imperfections (bias, blindness, subjectivity) shape our construction of the past. History is a story, and the story we find may depend on the story we’re looking for.
An irresistible work of literary detection, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies will forever change how you think of Shakespeare… and of how we as a society decide what’s up for debate and what’s just nonsense, just heresy.
Elizabeth Winkler is a journalist and book critic whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Economist, among other publications. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her master’s in English literature from Stanford University. Her essay “Was Shakespeare a Woman?”, first published in The Atlantic, was selected for The Best American Essays 2020. She lives in Washington, DC.
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
By Elizabeth Winkler (Author)
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
June 8, 2023
Length: 416 pages
Hardcover
ISBN-10:198217126X
ISBN-13:978-1982171261
£15.00
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Welgemutst
De lessen zijn gedaan. De tram stroomt vol uniform.
Vol bewegingsdrang, zoals een vis is, kleine jeugd
alom plotsklaps. Jongens willen wijsjes en meisjes
schoentjes. Daar horen zoentjes bij. Al is het maar
in gedachten. Zie ze eens naar de toekomst groeien.
Ze snuiven fris. En lachen elkaar zacht toe, broos
als het marsepeinen gezicht van de mutslangoer.
Bert Bevers
Welgemutst
Gedicht
Uit: Eigen terrein, Uitgeverij WEL, Bergen op Zoom, 2013
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Ord
Varma ord, vackra ord, djupa ord…
De äro som doften av en blomma i natten
den man icke ser.
Bakom dem lurar den tomma rymden…
Kanske de äro den ringlande röken
från kärlekens varma härd?
Edith Södergran
(1892-1923)
Ord
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From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving present.
The first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in relationship, on city sidewalks or in the country, their lyrics always engage with permanence and mortality, danger and safety, fear and wonder.
a “Working Life” is a book transfixed by the everyday: the “sweet accumulation” of birds outside a window, a cup of coffee and a slice of pizza, a lover’s foot on the bed.
These poems arise in the close quarters of air travel, the flashing of a landscape through a train window, or simply in a truck tooling around town, or on foot with a dog in all the places that held us during the pandemic lock-downs.
Myles’s lines unabashedly sing the happy contradictions of love and sex, spill over with warnings about the not-so future world threatened by climate change and capitalism, and also find transcendent wonder in the landscapes and animals around us, and in the solitary and collective act of caring for one another and our world.
With intelligence, heart, and singular vision, a “Working Life” shows Eileen Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.
Eileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their books include Pathetic Literature, For Now (an essay/talk about writing), Evolution, Afterglow (a dog memoir), I Must Be Living Twice: new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. The Trip, their super-8 puppet road film can be seen on YouTube. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.
a “Working Life”
Author: Eileen Myles
Poetry
Language: English
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: 2023-04-18
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9780802161895
ISBN-10: 0802161898
Pages: 288
List Price: $26.00
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Menschen
Als ich, mit der Welt zerfallen,
Schweigend ging umher,
Da fragten die lieben Menschen:
Was quälet dich so sehr?
Ich sagte ihnen die Wahrheit;
Sie haben sich fortgedrückt
Und hinter meinem Rücken
Erklärt, ich sei verrückt.
Ada Christen
(1839 – 1901)
Menschen
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The Weather-Cock Points South
I put your leaves aside,
One by one:
The stiff, broad outer leaves;
The smaller ones,
Pleasant to touch, veined with purple;
The glazed inner leaves.
One by one
I parted you from your leaves,
Until you stood up like a white flower
Swaying slightly in the evening wind.
White flower,
Flower of wax, of jade, of unstreaked agate;
Flower with surfaces of ice,
With shadows faintly crimson.
Where in all the garden is there such a flower?
The stars crowd through the lilac leaves
To look at you.
The low moon brightens you with silver.
The bud is more than the calyx.
There is nothing to equal a white bud,
Of no colour, and of all,
Burnished by moonlight,
Thrust upon by a softly-winging wind.
Amy Lowell
(1874-1925)
The Weather-Cock Points South
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Suicide is often framed as betrayal, even though we live in a world that betrays us.
When this world tells us that death is better, what does it mean to have faith in life?
JUDAS & SUICIDE is a poetry collection navigating religion and suicidality.
It approaches these topics through the lens of Black family and community, sadness, medication, sexual violence, the prison industrial complex, media, and Bible verses.
JUDAS & SUICIDE explores how to be convinced to stay alive without feeling obligated to.
Maya Williams (ey/em, they/them, and she/her) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley Bryan Fellow and the seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine.
Judas & Suicide
Poems
by Maya Williams
Publ. Date: 5/23/2023
Publisher: Game Over Books
ISBN: 979-8-9878871-0-3
Binding: PAPERBACK
Pages: 80
Price: $ 18.00
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Übrig geblieben sind ihr nur ein Briefumschlag mit einer Handvoll Fotografien und die Angst vor dem Vater, die Sorge um ihre Mutter und ihren Bruder, die Knoten in ihrer Brust.
Seka sucht mit Anfang zwanzig nach den Spuren ihrer zerbrochenen Familie und ihres bisherigen Lebens. Sie rekonstruiert den Weg ihrer Eltern aus Bosnien in die Schweiz und fragt nach den Verbindungen, den Fäden zu ihr.
Dabei stößt sie auf das Gefangenenlager in Omarska in den neunziger Jahren und einen Brief, der sie weiter nach Den Haag und Genf führt, später ins Berner Oberland.
Und sie stellt fest, dass in Omarska heute Erz in den Minen abgebaut wird, als hätte es die Geschichte nicht gegeben, die eines fast schon vergessenen Krieges in Europa. Dabei wirken die Versehrungen der Vergangenheit bis in die Gegenwart fort.
Mina Hava verknüpft in ihrem Debütroman historisches Material, Recherche- und Rekonstruktionsarbeit mit persönlichen Erfahrungen, Verlusten und Ängsten – und beleuchtet, was Geschichte bedeutet für Landschaften und Körper. Sensibel erzählt Für Seka ein junges Leben, in dem das Politische und das Persönliche untrennbar verbunden sind, eine Geschichte vom Verlassen und Verlassenwerden und von der Frage, was war.
Mina Hava, geboren 1998, studierte Globalgeschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule in Zürich sowie Literarisches Schreiben am Deutschen Literaturinstitut in Leipzig. Für Seka ist ihr Debütroman.
Nina Hava
Für Seka
Roman
Erscheinungstermin: 03.04.2023
Fester Einband,
278 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-518-43111-5
Suhrkamp Verlag,
ca. 13,4 × 21,6 × 2,8 cm,
€ 24,00
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Lied des Todes
Alles Leben ist Lüge,
Wahr bin nur ich allein,
Finde nun, Herz, Dein Genüge,
Schlafe, schlafe nun ein.
Ich war Dein erster Begleiter
Und werde Dein letzter sein,
Die Menschen eilten weiter,
Ich liess dich nie allein.
Sie alle kränkten dich stets aufs neu,
Ich stand nur still beiseite,
Sie gingen alle, ich blieb treu,
Ergib Dich mir nun heute.
Lieb mich und meine sanfte Macht,
Du bist mir ja bestimmt.
Das Leben hat dich müd gemacht,
Schlaf ein, schlaf ein, mein Kind.
Ich und Deine Mutter lauschten
Deines Herzens erstem Schlag,
Blut und Blut zusammenrauschten,
Herz an Herz gebettet lag.
Sie war Anfang, ich bin Ende
Und dazwischen littest Du.
Gib Dich nun in meine Hände,
Finde, Seele, Deine Ruh.
Joseph Roth
(1894 – 1939)
Lied des Todes
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Hoe betoverend te kunnen spreken met alle dingen.
In haar tweede dichtbundel Anker Kruis Hart belicht Sofie Verdoodt de voortdurende metamorfose van mens, dier en ding. Erotiek, verlies en moederschap raken hierbij verknoopt.
Net wanneer de tijd niets meer overlaat om te wissen, gooit Verdoodt haar anker uit. Van veraf of van heel dichtbij aanschouwen we de grote oversteek, de zielsverhuizing, of de gedaantewissel van een reeks personages, waaronder een lyrisch ‘ik’.
Deze gedichten zijn als intieme brieven of elegieën voor personages die uit de eigen as blijven verrijzen. Sofie Verdoodt (1983) debuteerde in 2014 bij PoëzieCentrum met Doodwater.
Haar werk verscheen in tijdschriften en bloemlezingen als Poëziekrant, De Brakke Hond, Nieuw Groot Verzenboek, De Volksverheffing en De Grote Inkijk. Ze werkte mee aan muzikale projecten van BARST en Amenra. Als doctor in de kunstwetenschappen doceert ze en schrijft ze essays over film en kunst.
Anker Kruis Hart
Gedichten
Auteur: Sofie Verdoodt
Uitgeverij: Poeziecentrum VZW
Taal: Nederlands
ISBN: 9789056553579
Uitvoering: Paperback
Aantal pagina’s: 42
2023
Afmetingen: 200x150x5 mm.
20,00 euro
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