Author: Anneke

Sèrge Charchoune – Foule immobile

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Visual artist and author Serge Charchoune (Sergey Sharshun) was born in Russia in 1888 but lived most of his life in France, where he died in 1975. Charchoune fled to Paris when he deserted from the Russian army in 1912. After initially having become involved in Cubism in Paris, his attention turned to Dadaism when he got in touch with André Breton, Max Ernst, Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia after his return from…
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The Bacon Mirage #1 – Rutger Blom

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The drawings in this slim edition are the work of by Rutger Blom (1994). They were done between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, most them during various lessons at Rutger’s secondary school in Rotterdam. Sea Urchin brings together this fine collection of school dirt for the first time and publishes it as the #1 in a series of booklets dedicated to young and promising artists. The series is called The Bacon Mirage. Limited print run of 60, of which only 30 copies are available for retail…
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Hot asphalt special: Alfred Lichtenstein – Raid

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sold out“The only solace is: to be sad. When sadness degenerates into despair, you should become grotesque. You should go on living for the hell of it. Should try – recognising that existence only consists of brutal and vile hoaxes – to find uplifting.” Speaking is Kuno Kohn, Alfred Lichtenstein’s alter ego, who featured in Lichtenstein’s poetry and prose to mock life, society, colleagues and, not in the least, the poet himself. Lichtenstein’s merciless and expressionist Kuno Kohn poems were compiled and published as ‘Die Gedichte des Kuno Kohn’in 1914, only months before the poet died in World War I. Überfall, now published in English as Raid, was one of those poems…

Ed Sanders – In Honor of Ted Berrigan

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sold outThe opening lines of Ed Sanders’s poem For Ted Berrigan recall the origin of the friendship between the two poets on the Lower East Side, where Sanders had moved from Kansas City and Berrigan from Tulsa via Chicago in the early 1960s. The poem is one of two that have been printed in the joint Moloko & Sea Urchin edition In Honor of Ted Berrigan by Ed Sanders, which also contains glyphs and contact prints from Ed’s…
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Yannis Livadas – Three Sketches of Criticism + The Routines of Poetry

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Yannis Livadas is a contemporary Greek poet, born in 1969. He is also an editor; essayist, translator, of more than fifty books of American poetry and prose; an independent scholar with specialization on modernism, beat literature, postmodernism and haiku. He is also a columnist and freelancer contributor to various literary magazines, both in Greece and other countries. His poems and essays have been…
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