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Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy
In Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy, seventeen professional thinkers shamelessly exploit the cinematic achievement of Tarantino for all the steamy, sensational metaphysics and epistemology they can wring out of it. Are these eruptions of intelligent thought merely a cynical hypnotic manipulation of our cerebral cortexes? Or can we somehow relate them to the human values that really matter pyrotechnic car chases, Mexican standoffs, and exploding heads? Is the philosophers' preoccupation with quoting other philosophers nothing more than incestuous indulgence? Or are they somehow conveying a deeper point about the enduring validity of amputated ears and anal rape? In the final analysis only you...
Breathalyzer
Poetry. "Goofy, weird, beyond funny, wise, wicked, K. Silem Mohammad is the exorcist giving us all a ride home. Beyond the pale, right with it, he's my poet laureate for our frightening state of the union"--Linh Dinh. "They say Auden was the first poet to be truly at home in the modern world. Mohammad is the first to be utterly unimaginable in any other. His poems communicate a total, infectious joy at being alive today, in our F'ed-up pluriverse of words and deeds. F in this case being flarf, a four-letter word for our time" -Benjamin Friedlander. Be sure to check out Mohammad's previous titles A THOUSAND DEVILS and DEAR HEAD NATION, both currently available from SPD.
Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy
Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and vampires have taken over TV shows, comic books, cartoons, video games, and movies. Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy drags the theories of famous philosophers like Socrates and Descartes into the territory of the undead, exploring questions like: Why do vampires and vegetarians share a similar worldview? Why is understanding zombies the key to health care reform? And what does "healthy in mind and body" mean for vampires and zombies? Answers to these questions and more await readers brave enough to make this fun, philosophical foray into the undead.
Flarf
Poetry. Flarf. The first revolutionary artistic movement of the 21st century? An imperialist gesture? The new Dada? A marketing strategy? What began as a coinage by Gary Sullivan for certain "so bad it's good" aesthetic effects, combined with Drew Gardner's innovation "google sculpting," quickly became an artistic movement noticed by the BBC, Boston Review, The New York Times, Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and others. FLARF: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FLARF is the first substantial collection of flarf including all of its major participants. Spanning almost two decades of work, this long awaited collection is sure to please, excite, and incense a wide reading public. In addition to the editors, contributors include: Stan Apps, Anne Boyer, Brandon Brown, Maria Damon, Jordan Davis, Katie Degentesh, Benjamin Friedlander, Christopher Funkhouser, K. Lorraine Graham, Mitch Highfill, Rodney Koeneke, Bill Luoma, Michael Magee, Mel Nichols, Eir�kur �rn Norờdahl, Rod Smith, Christina Strong, Edwin Torres, and Elisabeth Workman. Special introductory price of $30 until October 1; thereafter, $35.
Zong!
A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry
Morning Constitutional
Poetry. Flarf. "As the title of his book suggests, Michael Magee's poetry buzzes with the legislative, polemical, and liberatory static of American political history: specifically the declarative rhetoric of the founding fathers (from Jefferson and Franklin to Woodward and Bernstein) and its slow refraction into the 'sacred word' of mediaspeak, multicultural cant, and all the cynically mediated chatter that masks the 'historindustry of worlds.' This is social poetry, very serious about its engagement with public discourse, but anarchically ornery in its playful paronomastic splintering...a funked-up powerwalk, an essential dance mix that is not just infectious, but informed" --K. Silem Mohammad.
Beautiful Enemies
Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession with both the pleasures and problems of friendship erupts in the "New American Poetry" that emerges after the Second World War. By focusing on some of the most significant postmodernist American poets--the "New York School" poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and their close contemporary Amiri Baraka--Beautiful Enemies reveals a fundamental paradox at the heart of postwar American poetry and culture: the av...
Poets on Teaching
"Here is an astonishingly generous gathering of poetic energies and imaginations aimed toward turning more and more classrooms into scenes of transformative engagement with the prime instrument of our humanity, language. The essential work of exploratory play with words is presented in heartening variety in its necessary wildness, surprising pleasures, gravitas, illumination. This book is a catalogue of invention: visionary, pragmatic, surprising, fun---useful because it's inspiring and vice versa. The poets' essays are themselves an affirmation of the vital presence of poetry in our culture, proof and promise, Q.E.D."---Joan Retallock, coeditor, Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, and author, The Poethical Wager --Book Jacket.
The Undead and Philosophy
"A collection of philosophical essays about the undead: beings such as vampires and zombies who are physically or mentally dead yet not at rest. Topics addressed include the metaphysics and ethics of undeath"--Provided by publisher.
