Thus spake the Corpse : an Exquisite corpse reader, 1988-1998 / edited by Andrei Codrescu & Laura Rosenthal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Codrescu, Andrei, 1946-

Rosenthal, Laura, 1958-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 v.1-2 & copy 3 v.1)

Rosenthal, Laura, 1958- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 v.1-2 & copy 3 v.1)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press, 1999-2000.

Summary:

Before suspending publication earlier this year, Andrei Codrescu's controversial and notorious anti-literary literary magazine Exquisite Corpse had become a primary site of engaged dialogue among the non, brain-dead everywhere. Founded in the 1980s on the belief that "American literature, poetry in particular, is sick from lack of public debate, " Codrescu's Corpse took its title from cadavre exquis, a form of collaboration once much practiced in Paris surrealist circles.

Rebellion, passion and black humo became the journal's trademarks. Anti-conformist polemic, poetics of assault, high-tone bohemianism, muckraking speculation, seditious attitudinizing and wandering reports from the front lines and back alleys of the culture jammed each issue, framed by elegant columns of top-flight new poetry.

Contents:

v. 1. Poetry & essays

v. 2. Fictions, travels & translations.

Notes:

"This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 300 hardcover trade copies; 100 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the editors; & 20 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray are lettered & signed by the editors"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 v.1-2 is hardcover edition signed by the editors.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 v.1-2 is hardcover edition.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 v.1 is paperback edition signed by the editors.

ISBN:

1574231014

1574231022

1574231006

1574231421

157423143X

1574231413

OCLC:

41476785