krummholtz. The Soot Collection, from the Library of Consensual Novellas. gnOme. 2025.

These fifty-four “Soot Books” play in the intersection of surrealism and the erotic. As consensual novellas, they are grounded in tension and release. As guides for bookmakers responsible for the actual manifestation, each book is a performance. They toy with automatic eroticism emerging from a sub-conscious state and playing with the juxtaposition of disparate images, sounds, and touches.

“krummholz belongs in a wiggle room, along with Arp, Tardieu, Wunderlich, Ionesco, Abe, Kamei, Oppenheim, and so on and on.” — Bosca Gainimh, dramaturge

“Tingles, tremors, paroxysms. Bubble wands. Pacinian corpuscles. Mmmmm.” — Luna Calante, author of Solar Flares and other flashes

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C. R. Strigoi. 108pp. ISBN: 9798328831062. gnOme, 2024.

The madness of the intersection, the madness latent in Actually Existing Persons, the madness in the vibration of everyday existence in the land outside the amusement park=island, still atop the bones of the (glorious) dead but walking with the feet of the living and not the living dead, the madness to face the madness of tomorrow and today . .

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Gazelle of Unfended Láatsi: Selected Poems of Gulliver S. Gulliver. Commentary by Tark Mackintosh. 96pp. ISBN: 9798874007126. gnOme, 2024.

Among the poets who after the Great War began calling themselves dadaist, surrealist, futurist, rejecting the forms and tropes of the late 19^th-century Victorian and Edwardian poetaster, Gulliver S. Gulliver was certainly the most enigmatic, and the only to provide as it were a roadmap of one author’s circuitous path from the sophomoric post-Romantic scribblings of his youth, through the nearly incomprehensible madness of deep imagery and cubism, into the precious vein of startled-awake, fragmentary, frequently enraged verse we have come collectively to call modernism. While Pound and Eliot commanded center stage, and schismatics such as William Carlos Williams and J. M. (Jewel Mapelworth) provided freeform foils, GSG and his Oaxaca City movement Los Decepcionados, waging a grassroots social and artistic revolution deep in southern Mexico, lived and breathed the creed from which was born some of their generation’s most influential movements. With canvas and notebook, championing agricultural reform, offering armed resistance to the bourgeois and landed gentry, under constant threat of ultimate loss, Gulliver S. Gulliver and his young resistance fighters sparked a cultural revolution that would continue to bear fruit well into the 21st century. These are his words, spoken in great and desperate earnestness.

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Praeceptor Alluvius. The Immortal Masquerade. ISBN: 979-8373676243. 104pp. gnOme. 2023

The Immortal Masquerade was the predominant creation myth of the dark age following the fall of the American Roman Empire. Many versions circulated but only one remains fully intact, recorded by the Praeceptor. It is a curious myth, a crude allegory on the mystical formation of identity. One that reflects the American’s longing for great and bountiful times, their faith in a meaning beyond their lives, incomprehensible as it may be, and their unwavering hope in what is strong. It is their brute attempt to comprehend that most ancient struggle between light and dark, told in a simplistic tale of Arcadia and the faces that play in the Immortal Masquerade.

Praeceptor Alluvius made pilgrimage across the country in the years thereafter the fall of the American Roman Empire. And in the wake of ruins from coast-to-coast he did travel, putting their stories to pen. The war had finally ground to a bloodied halt, the will of the people was crushed, and then began the great wandering of a disillusioned and hungry mass. The fires smoldered, the smoke cleared, and the wastelands began to sprout life anew, but this was no life enough to fulfill their starving figures. And so, they wandered, they subsisted on little, and around the campfires they told mythical stories of times past and times to come.

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Ruth Helen Taylor. Flings on Flings. Ed. Anthony David Vernon. ISBN-13: 9798373610919. 96pp. gnOme. 2023

Ruth Helen Taylor’s writing has been called, “mystical (Caroline Mellor author of The Honey in the Bones),” “beautiful, graphic, evocative, (Suma Narayan author of Have a Blessed Day),” and “thought-provoking (Joshua Grant author of The Fifth Ascendants).”

Flings on Flings is Ruth Helen Taylor’s premiere book written in partnership with her editor Anthony David Vernon (author of The Assumption of Death). Flings on Flings is a hybrid work of poetry, philosophy, and short-form fiction that also weaves beautifully through the history of ideas on love. This work will have readers questioning and examining the nature of love and relationships.

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The Other Self / Другое « Я ». Translated by Sacha Jarachewski & Irina Kaplin. ISBN-13: 9798839284678. 62pp. gnOme. 2022

These pages were told by a blind man in a small village near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, around the 12th century.
A Monk called Arseni is said to have put them on paper in the early 19th century, in a monastery near Arkhangelsk. The famous Ukrainian scholar Sacha Jarachewski, known for his studies on reincarnations of orthodox priests in the secret caves of Mount Beloukha, transliterated them into modern Russian with the help of the moscovite journalist Irina Kaplin before his death by tuberculosis in 2008.

Эти страницы были расска слепым человеком в маленькой деревне недалеко от Нижнего Новгорода, примерно в 12 веке.
Говорят, что монах по имени Арсений записал их на бумаге в начале 19 века в монастыре близ Архангельска. Известный украинский ученый Саша Джарачевский, известный своими исследованиями перевоплощений православных священников в тайных пещерах горы Белуха, перевел их на современный русский язык с помощью московской журналистки Ирины Каплин до своей смерти от туберкулеза в 2008 году.

Proceeds from the sale of this title go to the poor widow of Sacha Jarachewski, who lives in Marioupol.

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oudeís. Amuletic Oubliettes. ISBN-13: 9798471285095. 144pp. gnOme. 2021.

Amuletic Oubliettes is the third poetry collection by oudeís. It assays the subject of lucid dreaming through a geochronology, an horology, a thanatology, a taxonomy, and a teleonomy, and ends with a brief note on dreams.

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An Index for the New Aesthetic Landscape. Apophonic Institute. ISBN 9798528271958. 106 pp. gnOme. 2021

An Index for the New Aesthetic Landscape documents recent attempts by the Apophonic Institute to expand post/human research methods.

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The Museum of Apparitions. ISBN: 9798553808747. gnOme. 2020.

Throughout recorded history, various parts of the world have generated reports of crimes and assaults that are, to use the language of the police, without definable perpetrators. One such instance involves the anonymous victim and even more elusive culprits of the 2020 case related herein, whose ill-fated outcome may have been influenced in part by the abstruse subject matter and unidentifiable author of a document called The Museum of Apparitions.

“Although the examination of apparitions often tends to resist dialectical resolution, Peter J. Shelton’s discovery of Dr. John Doe’s texts points to a truly weird interplay of events that derives its power from an oxymoronic act in which the ineffable becomes the very site of post-apparitional intelligibility. Readers granted entrance to this eerie Wunderkammer will find themselves concomitantly entranced: the book curates a kind of readerly auto-possession, one which artfully signals the enactment of the unsayable, wherein the threshold between being and non-being, time and space, John Doe and John Dee, collapses, revealing the grotesque veracity of its own spectral nature, over and over, ad infinitum. Well worth the price of admission. But enter at your own risk.” – Liesl Ketum, Humbert Divinity School

“Beneath the vaulted suspicions of all that is communicable lies this black dossier, a wraith-like codex of microbial psychiatry that dares to utter the final confession: that the greatest crime is that which appears.” – Anonymous Representative, Too Tired for Suicide

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