{"product_id":"artaud-anthology-paperback","title":"Artaud Anthology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAntonin Artaud\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJack Hirschman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am the man,\" wrote Artaud, \"who has best charted his inmost self.\" Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote \u003cem\u003eVan Gogh the Man Suicided by Society \u003c\/em\u003eraged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud's vatic thunder still crashes above the \"larval confusion\" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[I]n France his position extends beyond the theater, and indeed beyond any literary genre. Although he seems to have written incessantly in a sort of violent poetic prose which he scattered in all directions, his actual compositions have always been less well known than his personality. His prestige in literary circles depends in the first place on the fact that he was an abnormal individual, totally committed to the expression or exploration of his abnormality and quite oblivious of any of the requirements of ordinary living.\" --\u003cb\u003eJohn Weightman, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonin Artaud\u003c\/b\u003e (1896-1948) was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theater director. He is known as a significant figure in the history of theater, avant-garde art, literature, and other disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Hirschman\u003c\/b\u003e is a San Francisco poet, translator, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the '60s, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit, \"America's most important living poet.\" He is the author of numerous books of poetry, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are \u003ci\u003eEndless Threshold\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Xibalba Arcane\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLyripol\u003c\/i\u003e (City Lights, 1976).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 253\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8.01 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42690086764607,"sku":"9780872860001","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5ffc0780f5e23e51239c5f55fce00fc9.webp?v=1764987790","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/artaud-anthology-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}