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Andrew Joron

Andrew Joron is the author of Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010). Joron’s previous poetry collections include The Removes (Hard Press, 1999), Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003), and The Sound Mirror (Flood Editions, 2008). The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. Joron lives in Berkeley, California, where he theorizes using the theremin.

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A German Expressionist Space Fantasy: Scheerbart’s “Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel”

by Andrew Joron March 24, 2013December 21, 2021

The German fantasist Paul Scheerbart’s greatest novel, Lesabéndio, was first published in 1913, the year that Expressionism began to flower in Berlin. The novel, both deriving from and contributing to this Zeitgeist, opens with a highly Expressionist scene: “The sky was violet, and the stars were green. The sun was green too.”

Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome
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Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome

Tom Osgood’s final sculptures accompany design objects by his daughter Ravenna that celebrate domestic joys. On view at form & concept in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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