My Ogre Book, Shadow Theater, Midnight
Los Angeles: Siglio, 2016. First edition. 158 pp. Illustrated paper boards over yellow cloth backstrip, spine lettered in black and front board lettered in silver, no dust jacket as issued. New in publisher's shrinkwrap. English translations of Broodthaers' early books of poetry Mon Livre d'Ogre (1957) and Minuit (1960), along with a visual piece from 1973-74. Translations by Elizabeth Zuba, who notes in her afterword, "Taken together, these works provide an oblique projection of the fantastical concatenations of landscape that shaped the inquiry and practice of Broodthaers' oeuvre." One thousand copies were printed. Item #1978
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