Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Jen Hofer, Christian Nagler, and Brian Whitener. In 1951, Charles Olson set out to spend some time in Mexico. He was only there for five months an...
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Literary Nonfiction. Edited by community artist, scholar, and dancer Petra Kuppers (author of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge and Community Performance: An Introduction), the book opens with Arnieville, a Californian protest ...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. First published in 1973, two months after the military coup in Chile, Cecilia Vicuña's SABORAMI is a document of the times and the way in which history can change art. It is filled with the urgent hope that art, t...
Literary Nonfiction. Feminist Studies. Poetics. A MEGAPHONE collects a number of enactments that Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young did between the years of 2005-2007. In these enactments, they attempted to think with the playful dogmatism of a femin...
Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Brian Whitener, Daniel Borzutzky, and Fernando Fuentes. GENOCIDE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (an English translation of Genocida en el Barrio: Mesa de Escrache Popular by Colectivo Situ...
Cultural Writing. Edited by Cara Benson, with contributors Paul Raskin, Bart Bridger Woodstrup, Julie Sadler, David Zuga, Jason Zuga, and Monica de la Torre. As is painfully obvious for many a religious leader and many a psychic, predicting the futu...
Cultural Writing. Edited by Jena Osman. By definition, a refuge is a safe place for those in danger: a nature refuge shelters wildlife from over-hunting and habitat loss, a refugee camp protects innocent civilians from perilous warring forces. But t...
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Cultural Writing. Translation. BORDERS is the second volume in a series called ChainLinks, a spinoff project of the journal CHAIN, edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr. The goal of this new series is to produce books that might change people's min...
Literary Nonfiction. Urban Studies. INTERSECTION is the first volume in a series called ChainLinks, a spinoff project of the journal CHAIN edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr. The goal of this new series is to produce books that might change peop...
Magazine. Poetry. Essays. Art. "While not the death knell for CHAIN, this is the last annual issue of CHAIN for some time...We've decided that it's time to continue the CHAIN project in another form--not only to further the possibilities of our orig...
Magazine. The goal of this issue was "an issue that would investigate art that is created by/for communities or 'the public' in its broader definition...The pieces here reference sites all over the world, from the Prostitution Toleration Zone in Rot...
Poetry. Cultural Writing. The tenth edition of this highly esteemed journal of experimental poetry and poetics focuses on "translucinacion," a word intended to describe "how translation is a form of reading and writing that creates new work, new con...
Poetry. Fiction. Magazine. The ninth edition of this highly esteemed journal of experimental poetry and poetics focuses on "Dialogues." While CHAIN has always encouraged the "dialogue" inherent in cross-genre work and collaboration, issue #9 makes t...
Edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr, the CHAIN "Comics" issue was assembled with additional input from Gary Sullivan, Janet Zweig and Arielle Greenberg. Ranging from "found" images to "graphic novel"-style comics to out-and-out unclassifiable vis...
Magazine. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Now in its seventh issue, CHAIN has established itself as one of the primary magazines for the American literary avant-garde. The theme for this issue is memoir/anti-memoir, but there are no unbreakabl...