Just released: Black Scat Review #18!

 

 

The Gautier, Verlaine and Rimbaud poems therein are my first translations published outside mOnocle-Lash. A little offering of 19th Century avant-garde poems about partying.

 

Black Scat is a lively literary cabaret-act of experimental fiction, poetry, erotica, translations of 19th Century Bohemian and Decadent work, and what have you – the flagship PRINT journal of a very interesting press (the name a play off the 19th Century Bohemian group/cabaret/journal Black Cat).

Buy Here: https://blackscatbooks.com/2019/11/13/hot-off-the-press-2/

ANOTHER NEW RELEASE and a half!

THE IN-APPROPRIATED PRESS #16 is now available! Purchase Here!

 

 

This issue includes a small section devoted to Steve Dalachinsky, who passed away as it was being edited. Featuring work by Steve Dalachinsky, Philosophy Inc, Olchar E. Lindsann, Scott MacLeod, Wilheim Katastrof, Musicmaster, Admiral Aaron Andrews, J.D. Nelson, William Repass, Jim Leftwich, John M. Bennett, Jack Foley, Joe Abel, Dr. mOBiUs dITcH, Ivan Argüelles, bela b. Grimm, Catherine Mehrl Bennett, Tom Cassidy, Mark Young, Volodymyr Bilyk, Juanita Chriss, Binx the Kitten, & Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes.

 

As a special bonus, the first 10 monocle-lash purchases (i.e. every single purchase and then some...) will receive a full set of four new mOnocle-Lash bookmarks by C. Mehrl Bennett, Musicmaster, Reid Wood, and Jim Leftwich.

 

Also newly available in pamphlet form is Lindsann's essay "Speaking of Difference" which appeared in the in-Appropriated Press #10. Add it to your order for less than a buck HERE!

 

And be ready for more publications, including one by Alfred Jarry (translated by Amy Oliver) before the year ends!

New mOnocle-Lash Release/s on the Russian Avant-Garde!

NEW PUBLICATION + a SPECIAL PROMOTION for the full collection of mOnocle-Lash's publications of the RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE!

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Buy AT COST here: https://monoclelash.wordpress.com/new-publications/

Support the continuation of avant-garde publishing in print!

Death to Art
–by Vasilisk Gnedov
Translated by Volodymyr Bilyk
-cover by Bradley Chriss

The Poet Vasilisk Gnedov was a unique and seminal figure in the Russian Futurist movement, but remains virtually unknown in English. This double translation of Gnedov’s minimal 1913 masterpiece by the Ukranian avant-garde poet Volodymyr Bilyk, in which two translations using distinct approaches face off against each other and meet in the book’s centerfold, reveal both Gnedov’s linguistic playfulness and his previously-unnoticed interventions of the Ukrainian language into his primarily Russian texts. In these poems, language is compressed past the point which syntax or even words can support, and new crystalline units of language glisten up at us from the page. With a tipped-in biographical introduction by the translator.

30 pgs on folded 8.5”x11” + tipped-in Introduction.  Oct, A.Da. 103/A.H. 189 (2019)
$2.75 + 1.00 s/h OR TRADE, or PURCHASE AS PART OF RUSSIAN SET BELOW AT DISCOUNT!

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The Russian Avant-Garde Collection: 5 Chapbook Set
–by Gleb Kolomiets, Denis Beznesov, Vasilisk Gnedov, Volodymyr Bilyk, Inna Kirillova, & others.
 


Over the past decade, mOnocle-Lash’s mission has slowly but steadily encompassed the forging of alliances among the Russian-speaking avant-garde, and this specially-packaged and -priced set collects five mOnocle-Lash publications of English-language translations of Russian texts, asemia and texts written in English by Russian writers, and collaborations with Russian presses and groups, spanning the years 2013 to our very newest release, mailed together as a “boxed” set in a specially printed envelope, customized with rubber-stamps in the zaum tradition.
The set ordinarily represents $1.50 savings over all books brought separately (with the envelope tossed in). Through the end of 2019, our special promotion offers it to you AT COST for $15!
Includes:

1. The Slova-Synapse Bilingual Issue, ed. Gleb Kolomiets & Olchar Lindsann (2015): The Russian journal Slova in partnership with mOnocle-Lash’s flagship occasional-periodical Synapse, with all texts presented in parallel English and Russian – 64 pages of underground poetry, art, & essays by the Russian and Anglophone avant-gardes.
2. The Outer Circle – Ideas and Forms of the Contemporary Russian Avant-Garde, ed. Gleb Kolomiets & Olchar Lindsann (2014): The exhibition catalog of the exhibition of the same name, organized by mOnocle-Lash and Slova, and held in the Liminal Gallery in Roanoke, Virginia in March 2014. Includes essays, manifestos, biographies of participating artists and writers, and listings of exhibited pieces.
3. Glasseyed Pipe, by Denis Beznesov (2014): Over 40 pages of continually unpredictable and playful verse in English by the Russian avant-garde poet.
4. New Hamlet, by Gleb Kolomiets & Inna Kirillova (2013): A darkly sardonic play that examines family dysfunction in post-Soviet Russia.
5. Death to Art, by Vasilisk Gnedov, trans. Volodymyr Bilyk (1913/2019): A double translation of the Russian Futurist’s minimal 1913 masterpiece, rendered into English twice by the Ukranian avant-garde poet Volodymyr Bilyk, using distinct approaches to face off against each other, meeting in the book’s centerfold.

Issued as a Set in October, A.Da. 103/A.H. 189 (2019) $15 + 6.00 s/h

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Lecture: A Social History of the Avant-Garde

On July 4 at the AfterMAF festival in Roanoke, VA, I delivered a lecture on the 19th Century Avant-Garde, focusing on the social history, rather than the aesthetic – an anthropological and micro-historical rather than "art/literary history" approach. Here's the video of the presentation. I only got through the Symbolists in the lecture that day, but I'm posting here the lecture notes carrying the story all the way up to the present, and the corresponding slides for the notes, which contain much more detailed information.

I've not had time to assemble a bibliography specific to this lecture, but to trace a bit of information or do follow-up research on your own, email me at olindsann@gmail.com (messages sent via the blog have a tendency not to reach me for months) and I can point you toward relevant sources and/or my bibliographies of related projects. This may eventually become a book, but that would be several years down the road.

Here's the video of the lecture up to the end of the 19th Century (Romanticism through Symbolism & Decadence):

Here are the LECTURE NOTES for the entire history.

Here the accompanying SLIDES including images, charts, and more detailed information referred to in the lecture.

Resurrecting the Bouzingo: Lecture: A Social History of the Avant-Garde

Resurrecting the Bouzingo: Lecture: A Social History of the Avant-Garde: On July 4 at the AfterMAF festival in Roanoke, VA, I delivered a lecture on the 19th Century Avant-Garde, focusing on the social history, ...

Starting the long process of preparing an edition of my Collected Essays, 2005–20 (hoping to publish next year or 2021). It'll leave out a few stray and early pieces but also includes a lot of short, scattered writings, some unpublished work, and I plan to ask a few people to include their essays that directly prompted or responded to my own. A prospective table of contents (which will doubtless grow as I keep writing over the next year):

 

 

COLLECTED ESSAYS

 

Introduction

 

PART 1: EARLY POLEMICS

1. Three Evils of Modernism: Explained! (2004)
2. Seek and Destroy: Modernist Strategies for the Suppression of Anti-Art (2005)
3. Toward a Breathing Text: The Art of Madness (2005)

 

PART 2: ON COUNTERCULTURE, MICROCULTURE, & PRAXIS

1. Read This Shit: Some Obvious Remarks on the Necessity of the Book (2006?)
2. Make it Home, Not Art [w/New Jersey PNA] (2007)
3. Against Complicity: On the Hydra-Headed Collective (2007)
4. Dartington, A Eulogy: An Open Letter on Community, Pedagogy, History, and the Life & Death of Utopian Institutions (2010)
5. WORD FOR/WORD INTERVIEW??? (2010)
6. On Performance and Documentation (from blog) (c.2010/11?)
7. On Fun (2011)
8. Notes on Organising Communal Events (2014)
9. Introduction to The Outer Circle: Ideas and Forms of the Contemporary Russian Avant-Garde (2014)
10. Extract from King Jaundice on invisibility of unskilled labour to power (2015)
11. Slova extract from Open Letter to the Avant-Garde (2016)
12. On Pedagogy and Disciplinarity (c. 2017)
13. How Do We Know? A Few Notes on Reclaiming Knowledge for Life (2017)
14. Post-NeoAbsurdist Conversation Notes (2018)
15. Learning Behaviors: Violence and the American Schools (2018)
16. S.tandards O.f L.earning (2018)
17. Speaking of Difference: A Loosely Related Collocation of Axioms (2018)
18. On the Community of Activated Obsessions (2018)
19. Section 1 of Avantopia with Dummies (2019)

 

PART 3: ON TRADITION AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. Cheating Art History (2005)
2. On Anachronism as Dissent (2006 /09)
3. Toward a Radical Historiography: Creative Sociality and the Traditions of Dissent (2011 /)
4. Manifesto on Archiving FROM BOOKMARK (2012 /15?)
5. Practical notes on Micro-Archiving
6. Notes on the Emergence of the Yellow Sign (c.2014)
7. On Feminism in Utopian & Marxist Socialism (2014)
8. Post-script to King Jaundice (2015)
9. Letter to Emily Wampler on Krysinski on the Avant-Garde (c.2016?)
10. Forward (and Back), Editorial Statement of Révenance: A Zine of Hauntings from Underground Histories (2016)
11. pRe-face to Some Potential Histories (2017)
12. Preface to Theatres of War in the Assault on Culture (2019)

 

PART 4: ON WRITING & MYSTICISM

1. Carmen Pro Pleroma: A Brief Treatise Concerning the Invocation of Yog Sothoth (2006 /14)
2. Toward (and away from) a (potential) Nagean Pataphysics (2006 /14)
3. Supplemental Open Letter regarding ‘Toward a Nagean Pataphysics’ (2006 /2014)
4. + EXCERPTS FROM ECSTATIC NERVE
5. Preface to Post-Neo Anti-Prophesies (2011)
6. Useless Preface to a Romantasemic Writing [w/Leftwich & Gautier] (2014)
7. On Intellectual Culture and the Experience of Time (c.2016)
8. On Reading as Necromancy (c.2017)
9. A Rant and Object Lesson in Translation, Respect, & Romanticist Poetics (2018)
10. Notes on New Criticism, Post-Structuralism, & Post-Modernism (c.2018)
11. Galatea Resurrects Post on the Profanities Poems (2018)
12. On the Real and its Other (c.2018)
13. On the Kabbala (c. 2018)
14. Two Cities: On Carcosa and Golgonooza (2018)

 

PART 5: CRITICISM

1. A Moment of Bennett (2009)
2. Introduction to Revised Edition of Jim Leftwich’s Doubt (2009)
3. Micro-Essay on Peter Ganick’s Remove a Concept (2009)
4. Micro-Essay on Peter Ganick’s It’s Only Po-Et-Ry and I like It (2010)
5. Introduction to John M. Bennett’s Textis Globbolalicus, Vol. 3 (2011)
6. Eulogy for Jeff Hanneman (2013)
7. Introduction to Petrus Borel’s Lycanthropy: Shreds Torn from ‘Rhapsodies’ (2014)
8. Preface to Denis Beznesov’s Glasseyed Pipe (2014)
9. Micro-Essay on Agrüelles’ Fiat Lux (2014)
10. Preface to Joseph Bouchardy’s The Garrick Remedy (2015)
11. Review of Jules Verne’s Paris in the 20th Century (2015)
12. Introduction to Imogene Engine’s I, Engine: Collected & New Works (2016)
13. Introduction to Leftwich’s Rascible & Kempt, Vol. 2 (2016)
14. Micro-Essay on Vol. 2 (2016)
15. Review of Fiddler’s Green Magazine (2017)
16. Critical Afterward to Argüelles’ Fragments of a Gone World: Joe & I & Others: Poems (2017)
17. Two Death Metal Shows: A Micro- Anti- Review (2017)
18. Mini-Review of Claire Goldberg Moses & Leslie Wahl Rabine, Feminism, Socialism, and French Romanticism (2018)
19. Publisher’s Forward to Vol. 4 of Nellson’s translation of Wordsworth’s Prelude (2018)
20. 3 Zine Micro-Reviews (2018)
21. Micro-Essay on Jim Leftwich & Billy Bob Beamer’s Sound Rituals (2018)
22. Review of mIEKEL aND, Hreadlines du jour (2019)
23. Review of Georges Bataille et. al., The Sacred Conspiracy (2019)
24. Review of Stéphane Mallarmé, The Book (2019)

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Going on Mini-Tour!

It's taken over 15 years, but holy crap I'm doing a (short) tour:

July 23: Baltimore, MD @ the true vine record shop

July 24: Easton, PA @ the Book & Puppet Co.

July 25: West Haven, CT @ Crunch House

July 26: Kingston, NY @ Kingston Artists Collective + Cafe

July 27: Willimantic, CT @ Willimantic Records

July 28: Philadelphia, PA @ Vox Populi

Olchar Lindsann & Jack Wright

 
Crashing Around

Samples of Olchar here and Jack here

Olchar Lindsann would be called a sound poet, but that's just a cover for creative howling --“vocal contortions & frothing at the mouth." Trigger warning for slobbering, but draws the line at spitting. Yes he does write, but he will only be scribbling on this tour behind the scenes. He's been called "A rootless cosmopolitan and cultural radical who finds scraps of solace and inspiration down by the Roanoke River"--a wanderer from the Midwest, then the UK, and back to New Jersey, but now frimly rooted in Roanoke, where he lives a relatively normal life, like the rest of us (ahem, speak for yourself...)
 

Jack Wright responds to the word "musician" and "saxophonist" (among others) and he too is mild-mannered in most social situations, doesn't kill most animals, and obeys most road signs. He improvises, sometimes astutely, sometimes foolishly, but never with the intent to make "music." Whatever it is, he makes more sounds on the saxophone than you are likely to have heard.
 

The two will be on tour end of July--Baltimore the 23rd at the True Vine; Easton the 24th at the Book and Puppet; New Haven the 25th at Crunch House; Kingston at the Art Cafe the 26th; Willimantic CT at the Record Store; and finishing up the 27th in Philly . They'll perform together vocally as a duo, and separately as well, doing whatever they please.

New Translation Release: André Salmon's Cartomancy

New Release:

Cartomancy


–– by André Salmon & Apa

–––– translated by Olchar E. Lindsann



 

 

 

André Salmon (1881-1969) was one of the originators of literary Cubism, publishing more than twenty books of avant-garde poetry, around a dozen books of fiction, and among the first monographs of many of the Cubist and other modernist painters; very little of his work (especially his poetry and fiction) has been translated into English.

 

This densely enigmatic, yet pretty raunchy poem cycle reflects Salmon’s idiosyncratic involvement with hermeticism and the occult, using the standard playing deck rather than the Tarot. Salmon builds a dense collage of hermetic, mythological, and historical systems into these extremely compressed little stanzas, while the syntax becomes increasingly fractured as they progress.

 

The accompanying cubist card designs were designed in conjunction with Salmon’s text by the Spanish cartoonist Apa (Felíu Elías Bracons).

 

The poem and images were published in 1921 in Issue 2 of the Cubo-Dadaist journal Action, edited by Pierre Reverdy. Due to a printer’s or editor’s error, in all copies the sequence was truncated partway through the tenth poem, and apparently never reprinted. The remainder is lost to history.

 

13 pgs. on folded 8.5″x11″. Feb., A.Da. 103. (2019 Anti-Vulgar)

$1.50 + 0.75 s/h or trade

Purchase Here

NEW PUBLICATION!

NOW AVAILABLE on mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press: the First Half of my 'pataphysical, uh "Gothic", um, (anti-)"Novel" set in a mash-up cross-temporal avant-garde utopia THE HORSE-KILLER!

 

The Korse-Killer: A Gothic Novel of the Avant-Garde; Vol. I

–by Monk O’Lindsann

 

An Anti-Tale of Melodrama, Passion, Blasphemy, & Absurdity in an Avant-Garde Anti-Utopia Beyond Time, Space, or Sense – a world where poets, artists, and mystics from two centuries of countercultural anarchy live, love, and beat their auxiliary brainpan cenacle monocles side-by-side, none of them making a damn lick of sense. The first of two volumes; look for the conclusion around 2021-22!

“Her voluptuousness was beyond the overweaning hubris of description. She rent her moustache, beat her auxiliary breast, and not daring to quit Alfred Jarry, endeavoured by bruitist cries to summon the horse-killers to her conspiratorial collaboration. She at length succeeded. Alarmed by her shrieks, several of the Brothers-in-Anti leapt savagely to the spot, and the Historiographer was conveyed back to the Catacombs. He was immediately put to gingerbread-coffin, and the horse-killer who officiated as Shaman and Barber-Surgeon to the Cénacle prepared to examine the wound. By this unconsciousness Alfred Jarry’s brain-pan had swelled to an extraordinary opacity; the remedies which had been administered to him, ’tis sophistical, restored him to intersticial life, but not to his senses; he raved in all the ecstasies of delirium, foamed at the dada, and four of the strongest horse-killers were scarcely able to firmly clench him in his gingerbread-coffin.”

“A grand old hack of good old “Monk”Lewis’ classic gothic old novel, turned inside out and old unanti’d I hear; I couldn’t old make it through it myself. (old)”

     ––Sir Chad Niral-Nelson 

 

Perfect-bound, 6″x9″, 168 pgs. Jan., A.Da. 103 / A.H. 189 (2019 Anti-Vulgar)

$15.00 + s/h

 

at mOnocle-Lash, but ultimately (sorry) you'll end up buying it via Amazon (this will probably be the last one like that)