Not for sale in Estonia! The French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end up...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Paris Peasant" (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. U...

Not for sale in Estonia! From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, publi...

Not for sale in Estonia! Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to "erase the boundaries between the arts". This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters' writings, introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitt...

Not for sale in Estonia! The eternal mystique of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) stems largely from his practice of writing under "heteronyms". More than just nom de plumes, Pessoa's heteronyms came with distinct biographies, careers,...

Not for sale in Estonia! A collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, renegade mystics and criminal religious fanatics, "The Heresiarch & Co." was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favorite. Making full use of his en...

Not for sale in Estonia! Written in his characteristic "mesostics" (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), "Composition in Retrospect" is a statement of methodology in which composer John Cage examines the central issues of h...

Not for sale in Estonia! Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), "Last Nights of Paris" is related to...

Not for sale in Estonia! Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often in vain, to put into words the strange power of his boxes – toy-like constructions whose playfulness and humor are anchored i...

Not for sale in Estonia! "I transferred to Teive my speculations on certainty, which lunatics have in greater abundance than anyone". Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a multitude of writers: his works were composed by "heteronyms",...