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  • The Laboratory of Time
    Peter Wortsman
    The Laboratory of Time, and other cutup poems, Peter Wortsman’s third collection of experiments in the form, lets time be told in the way we live it, sometimes stretching a second into seeming eternity, sometimes compressing eternity into a second. The first part, titled 'The True Glue,' comprises recycled assemblages of words cut out of the newspaper that make a newfangled poe...
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    8,99 €

  • Hinkemann
    Ernst Toller / Peter Wortsman
    Ernst Toller was a revolutionary, poet and playwright engagé, president for six days of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, best known for his Expressionist plays Hoppla! We’re Alive, Man of the Masses and Machine Breakers. In his day Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was as renowned as the young Bertolt Brecht. High profile persona non grata in 1933 when the Nazis came to power, ...
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    16,27 €

  • Driftwood at the River’s Edge
    Peter Wortsman
    Like driftwood, words, phrases and severed sentences come floating by. Part fisherman, part scavenger, I spread my net and rescue these bits of debris from the deep. I can’t say why certain severed statements catch my eye. Floating fragments of meaning, they sparkle and speak to me. And by a peculiar lure beyond my conscious ken, they sometimes come together. The pairings are n...
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    8,83 €

  • Borrowed Words
    Peter Wortsman
    Like a farmer rotating his crops, Peter Wortsman periodically ploughs words back into the mulch of meaning. Romanian émigré DADA poet Tristran Tzara (aka Samuel Rosenstock, 1896-1963) gave it a name: cut-up (or 'découpé' in French). Wortsman reverts to cutups when he’s too distracted, depressed, dumbfounded or deranged to write in the regular manner. As the isolation of virtual...
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    8,09 €

  • Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim
    Peter Wortsman
    In the short personal essays that comprise Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim, essays in lieu of a Memoir, author Peter Wortsman, best known for his original prose fiction and stage plays, and his translations from the German, follows in the footsteps of French essayist Michel de Montaigne, taking stock of life in middle age. His perspectives, including childhood fear, chronic i...
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    15,49 €

  • Hinkemann
    Ernst Toller / Peter Wortsman
    Ernst Toller was a revolutionary, poet and playwright engagé, president for six days of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, best known for his Expressionist plays Hoppla! We’re Alive, Man of the Masses and Machine Breakers. In his day Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was as renowned as the young Bertolt Brecht. High profile persona non grata in 1933 when the Nazis came to power, ...
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    11,61 €

  • Tales of the German Imagination from the
    Various / Peter Wortsman
    ’It was a very momentous day the day on which I was to be slaughtered’ Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness nightmare and fantasy this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction it includes Hoffmann’s hallucinatory portrait of te...
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    17,39 €