Author: Anneke
New from Moloko+: William Burroughs/Oliver Harris – Roosevelt after Inauguration redux
Oliver Harris’s latest Burroughs study scrutinises the background and publication history of the obscene pamphlet Roosevelt after Inauguration that William Burroughs wrote in 1953. Harris’s meticulous research and expertise makes this book another fine edition in Moloko’s steadily growing Burroughs series. Elegantly written as usual, the book is a pleasure to read and provides the reader with an abundance of interesting details…
Kiev Stingl – Meine Sterne fallen
New hand made: Dimitrie Stelaru – The Magical Tree
Sea Urchin has just published another English translation of a poem by Romanian Dimitrie Stelaru (1917-1971). Stelaru’s poem Copacul magic (The Magical Tree) was first published in the literary magazine Preocupări literare in 1942 and included in Stelaru’s landmark compilation Ora fantastică (The Fantastic Hour) two years later. In his preface The Planet of a new Poet to that compilation, the influential…
Dimitrie Stelaru – The Magical Tree
Vagabond poet Dimitrie Stelaru was born in 1917 as Dumitru Petrescu in Romania’s border region with Bulgaria. He never knew his biological father, who was killed in action during World War I, and developed such a bad relationship with his stepfather that he was sent to a strict Christian boarding school in Transylvania at the age of fourteen. Stelaru escaped the institute’s austere regime a couple of years later and vanished into the fringe of…







