Poetry

A theater play in two acts (the fifth book by Swedish artist and poet Karl Larsson).

The anthology of the founder of the concrete poetry movement in Brazil.

Limited edition of the anthology, with an original signed silkscreen.

La bouillabaisse: a world tour of recipes.

A narrative divided in 28 chapters, each made up of one long sentence. A violent confrontation between the abstraction of the language and the subject dealing with pornography.

Poetess Vannina Maestri presents A Stazzona, a theater place conceived by Jean-Michel Battesti and Dominique Villa in the Corsican town of Pioggiola.

A text on the need of love communication, through the story of a narrator who strives to learn music on a keyboard drawn on a cardboard piece.

Artist's book in which Sung Hwan Kim engages with the work of Rainer Maria Rilke.

Collaboration performance by this two infamous German visual artists, writers & sound-poets.

Jérôme Bertin's autobiographical novel tells a dissolute youth in the margins of society, from addictions and violence to psychiatric stays. With still the fierce desire to write.

An autobiographical tale in which the author tells the story of his addiction to a powerful sleeping pill.

Collection of texts, each dedicated to the life of an illustrious man as seen by another illustrious man.

Artist Cédric Pigot created a bruitist composition to accompany the words and voice of poet Jacques Sivan. The CD recording comes with a 80-page publication printed on internet-found images. With an afterword by Bernard Heidsieck.

Two talks about John Cage and the concept of structure by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.

A recording of John Cage's original text as read by a deaf individual (audio CD with booklet).

An ambitious project of minimalist poetry centered on the relationship between two words.

Second issue, around the problematics of voice and oralness.

Four treatises by Jean-Michel Espitallier.

A lesson on contemporary poetry.

Vannina Maestri splits contemporary discourse into textual fragments, experiencing with the spatiality of the page and typography to better reflect the cacophony of the world.

This experimental prose composed with large colored typographic compositions is a reflection on the act of writing: a deep metaphysical and melancholic text in which we meet Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, and Marinetti.

A poetic text on travel.

A collection of texts with a feminist approach, in which Joumana Haddad tells about the life of female poets who committed suicide.

An iconoclastic recipe book combining body and mind, savagery and eroticism, pleasure of the senses and black humor. With an afterword by Rudy Ricciotti.

The militant essay by poet, theoretician, critic and translator Haroldo de Campos on one of the most radical members of the Brazilian avant-gardes of the 1920's: a key contribution to the critical rehabilitation of a work that has strongly influenced Concrete Poetry in Brazil, as well as many poetical adventures of Western modernity.

When French politics and the history of rock'n roll collide: a both irreverent and joyful text by Cyrille Martinez.

Alessandro de Francesco's poetic approach aims to redefine and surpass discursive obstacles born out of our cognition, our emotions, and the political and media systems.

Prose poetry work by Italian writer and artist Giulio Marzaioli.

This publication is the result of a happening of sound poetry. It gathers the texts read during the lecture, as well as a recording made from the sound asperities of each of the reciters.

An in depth analysis of one of the most inventive (but also the most misunderstood) post-war avant-garde movements.

Collection gathering three long meditative prose poems, first published in 1972: a provocative masterpiece that helped establishing a new form in contemporary poetry.

The life and death of a shitty poet: a fake concept album on the trials and tribulations of a young literary mind and rock'n roll enthusiast.

The complete poetic works of singer and musician Clara Elliott, member of punk collective Crass.

This publication documents the viaduct Le Corbusier in Lille, France, and pays tribute to its creator, the architect François Deslaugiers. The publication features a series of short texts by Nathalie Quintane, inspired by this unique architecture.

Two long time out of stock references, remastered at le Laboratoire Central.

An update of the French Revolution's spirit, and a reflection on the notions of alienation, emancipation, and citizenship.

A book of sonnets taking as subjects the modern world and its main actors: the anonymous crowd of famous people of any kind.

A book of sonnets taking as subjects the modern world and its main actors: the anonymous crowd of famous people of any kind.

Publication gathering all the texts and recordings of the Biopsies series (1965-1969).

Publication gathering all the texts and recordings of the Passe-partout series (1969-2004).

This publication brings together the sound poet's first work, published in 1955, as well as the entire Poèmes-Partitions series (1955-1965). It also includes 2 CDs with all the Poèmes-Partitions recorded in their time by the author.

The notebook of American dancer and choreographer Simone Forti, in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world… The publication includes an interview with Forti by Annie Suquet, and an afterword by poet and Fluxus artist Jakson Mac Low.

The confrontation between the radically poetic world of Julien Blaine and the radically technological world of Rudy Ricciotti's Pont du Diable (a footbridge spanning the Hérault gorges in the south of France, both a superb aesthetic gesture and a genuine technological feat).

Collection of poems.

This poem is the first prelude to Diagonale du vide, a project developed by Antoine Dufeu. Alternating prose, verse, and pauses, the text expresses a new relationship to the world.

Prose poetry inspired by urban orality.

Conspiracy theories.

The first book of poems by art critic, artist, musician, and curator Dominic Eichler. With illustrations by Nairy Baghramian, Julian Göthe, Shahryar Nashat, Henrik Olesen, and Danh Vo.

A collection of texts and works dealing with the materiality of language and highlighting the theme from various perspectives.