50: A Celebration of Sun & Moon Classics

New Works by Friends

Edited and with a Preface by Douglas Messerli

Series No.: SMC 050

ISBN: 1-55713-132-5, Pages: 574

World Literature,

A Sun & Moon title.

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To celebrate the 50th book in the Sun & Moon Classics series, Publisher Douglas Messerli asked 50 major world authors and translators to submit work never before published in the United States. The result is a panoply of stunning writing from around the world and a celebration of language rarely seen.

Works included are F. T. Marinetti’s freeword poem “Dunes,” translated here for the first time; Soviet playwright and poet Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Vladimir Mayakovsky, featuring the original typography and drawings by David Burliuk; a dance without music, without dancers, without anything by French author Louis-Ferdinand Céline; short plays by American playwrights Mac Wellman, Jeffrey M. Jones, and Kier Peters; fiction by French authors Raymond Queneau and Liliane Giraudon; and new work by Michael Palmer (USA), Alfredo Giuliani (Italy), David Bromige (Canada/USA), Osman Lins (Brazil), Jackson Mac Low (USA), Friederike Mayröcker (Austria), Juan Goytisolo (Spain), Sigurd Hoel (Norway), Alexei Parshchikov (Russia), Paul Snoek (Flanders/Belgium), Nikos Engonopoulos (Greece), Norberto Luis Romero (Spain), Charles Henri Ford (USA), Mohamed Choukri (Morocco), Sibila Petlevski (Croatia), Clark Coolidge (USA), Heimito von Doderer (Austria), Olivier Cadiot (France), Severo Sarduy (Cuba), Steve Katz (USA), Rosita Copioli (Italy), Dominique Fourcade, Djuna Barnes, Ray DiPalma, Barbara Guest, Wendy Walker, Fanny Howe, Friederike Mayrocker, Lyn Hejinian, Alexei Parshchikov, Tristan Tzara, Vitezslav Nezval, Jeffrey M. Jones, Velimir Khlebnikov, Charles Bernstein, Milo De Angelis, Maurice Gilliams, Nikos Engonopoulos, Tom La Farge, Kurt Schwitters, Maggie O'Sullivan, Marianne Hauser, Andre Du Bouchet, Luigi Ballerini, and Paul Celan.

The collection is a true sampling of outstanding 20th-century innovative writing.