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The contortionist whispers

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Description: "From King Leopolds atrocities in the Congo to modern-day American consumerism, Will Alexanders The Contortionist Whispers examines a poets role across space and time as a lingual power, a {28}practitioner of occult harvests,
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 2022.
Call number: 653936
Creator: Alexander, Will(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 090057514X; 9780900575143
Provenance: Purchased from GOBI, June 2022.

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Mailing tube inscribed to Will Alexander from poets and artists Zoe Brezsny and Mario Miron, orginal housing for Alchemical Androgyne broadside housed in box 20; original pink binder for letters housed in box 28.

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Research materials: Egyptian symbolism, global warming, fish of the Congo River, exoplanets, alchemy, life on Mars, epigenetics, aboriginal Australian art, Moorish culture, Arabic poets, medieval Islamic astronomy; Kaleidoscopic Omniscience: notes and introduction; Kaleidoscopic Omniscience: annotated typescript; resume and CV materials, biographical; The Brimstone Boat drafts (2012); The Brimstone Boat typescript (2012); Notes approximately 2000.

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Refractive Africa : ballet of the forgotten

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""The poet is endemic with life itself," Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. "This being the ballet of the forgotten," he writes as diasporic witness, "of refracted boundary points as venom." The volume's opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo-two writers whose luminous art suffered "colonial wrath through refraction." A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as "charged aural colony" and "primal interconnection," a "subliminal psychic force" with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander's improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance-incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery"--

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Clinical skills for adult primary care

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Here is a practical, reliable guide to the most crucial task confronting the primary care physician: acquiring maximum clinical information through the bedside skills of history-taking and physical examination. Written by a group of experienced clinicians, this book is filled with "pearls" of information that will improve the diagnostic skills of every practitioner. In keeping with today's managed-care constraints on laboratory testing, this text emphasizes diagnosis based on clinical findings and judicious use of laboratory tests.

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Works and drafts: published copies of Nervous Incomparable Dictation/Curious Spectral Fragments (2019), The Transparent as Witness (2013), Alien Weaving (2016), Aboriginal Salt: Early Divinations (2011), Secrets Prior to the Sun (undated), Broadside Portfolio, no. 1 (2023); annotated envelopes; poets and writers reference; drafts, notes, ephemera; Byron Baker illustration; The Hallway Goodbye or Swingers, by Tamas Panitz; The Poetry of Carlux Carluxlax Presented by Losarc Raal, with notes by Will Alexander; Tri-Axium drafts; Hard Copy Interior Philosophical Fractals drafts; Incendiary Beckoning drafts.

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The train from Katanga : a novel

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"In this swift, suspenseful novel of modern Africa, four white mean, mercenaries hired by the Army of Katange, take a native task force by train into the Congo interior to a little mining town threatened by hostile tribes. The boiling excitement of the story is heightened by the personal gethsemanes of the other white mercenaries. All find their destinies on the train from Katange, whether in death or in new life, or, in the case of Bruce Curry, in the rebirth of himself as a man able to believe again in love"--From dust jacket flap.

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