Allan Graubard
Writer/Editorat self-employed
Allan Graubard is a poet, playwright, critic, and publisher translated into numerous languages. His recent books include Language of Birds (Anon Edition, NY/Flagstaff, 2019), Western Terrace (Exstasis Edition, Victoria BC, 2019), and Into the Mylar Chamber: Ira Cohen (Fulgur, UK, 2019). He collaborates with a host of creators in art, music, dance, and science, from the Alice Farley Dance Company, the late, celebrated composer/conductor Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, and artists Rik LIna and Gregg Simpson, to climate scientist Hans Von Storch, the late geophysicist Cinna Lomnitz, meteorologists Robert and Joanne Simpson, and more. Allan's theater works have premiered in New York City, Washington, DC, Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Sibiu, Romania. He has appeared as guest writer at MOMA PS1, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, Bowery Poetry Club, Romanian Cultural Institute (NYC); Wesleyan University (CT); Catholic University of America (Washington, DC); University of Colorado, Boulder (CO), and has lectured at other premiere institutions, including University of Oxford. He reads his work and that of other writers widely, from New York City, London and Los Angeles to New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana, as elsewhere. His book reviews appear in Leonardo, Los Angeles Review of Books, American Book Review, Hyperion, Pacific Rim Review of Books, and other venues. Because of it all, despite it all, he seeks the warm transparent breadth of living completely, which he has found when he least expects it.
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy
Compression Purity by Will Alexander. City Lights, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 2011. 94 pp. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-87286-541-9
Looking for Bruce Conner by Kevin Hatch. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. 418 pp. illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-01681-0
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson. W.W. Norton Company, New York, U.S.A., 2012. 304 pp. Trade; paper. ISBN: 978-0-393- 07215-0; ISBN: 978-0-393-34314-4
Philosophical Essays: A Critical Edition—Fernando Pessoa edited by Nuno Ribeiro. Contra Mundum Press, New York, U.S.A., 2012. 190 pp. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-983-697-268
My Life by Isadora Duncan, with an introduction by Joan Acocella. Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, U.S.A., 2012. Revised and updated from 1927 version. 368 pp. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-87140-318-6
Russia: A World Apart by Simon Marsden and Duncan McLaren. Paul Holberton Publishing, London, U.K., 2013. 144 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-957379-50-3
Otherness in Hollywood Cinema by Michael Richardson. Continuum, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2010. 272 pp. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-8264-6311-1
Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière
The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941–1945) by Suzanne Césaire
The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader
Jaroslav Rössler: Czech Avant-Garde Photographer
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
Surrealism and Cinema by Michael Richardson. Berg Publishers, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2006. 240 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 1-84520-225-2; 1-84520-226-0
Ghosthunter: A Journey through Haunted France by Simon Marsden. Editions Flammarion, Paris, 2006. 192 pp. Trade. ISBN: 2-0803-0530-1
Archeology of Violence by Pierre Clastres. Jeanine Herman, trans. SEMIOTEXT(E), Los Angeles, CA 90057. 335 pp. Softcover. ISBN-978-1-58435-093-4
The History of Jungle Gardens edited by Lisa B. Osborn, Shane K. Bernard and Scott Carroll. Jungle Gardens, Inc. Avery Island, LA, U.S.A., 2010. 120 pp. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-615-3211-7