Contra Mundum Press

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From our friends at Eris Press: I Killed and I Bled by Blaise Cendrars Translated and with a preface by Rainer J. Hanshe cup.columbia.edu/book/i-killed-…

New Reviews! Poetry from the U.S., Bosnia, Spain, Brazil, Austria • Fiction from France, Iraq, Denmark #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation @thesongcave @archipelagobks @worldpoetrybook @TwistSpoonPress @NYRBpoets @_contramundum_ @SandorfP @NewDirections thebookbeat.com/backroom/2026/…

(From a draft of a letter) - Rainer Maria Rilke’s TESTAMENT, available from ⁦@_contramundum_⁩

Preorders now open for Scott Von’s Autopoesis contramundumpress.com/autopoesis

“The fallacy would be to think of language as at-home-ness while ‘all else’ drifts, because for language to be accurate to the condition of nomadicity, it has to be drifting, to be ‘unterweg’ ‘underway,’ ‘on the way’”… — Pierre Joris, from A Nomad Poetics

Stanisława Przybyszewska

Read our Q&A with Soren Gauger, translator of Stanisława Przybyszewska’s Pact with the Devil on my own Skin—forthcoming. patreon.com/posts/book-fli…

Back in 2012, our first year as a press, Nicolas Lezard reviewed our edition for @GuardianBooks theguardian.com/books/2013/jan…

Great to see that the Italians (@adelphiedizioni) have finally followed suit and published a tr. of Szentkuthy's Casanova. It's time for Sz to make his way around the rest of the world. adelphi.it/libro/97888459…

“the heart of the cormorant is at the head of its name it wants more but no rant” — From “Two for the Cormorants” by Pierre Joris contramundumpress.com/in-between-kee…

Rene Magritte's La Gâcheuse, is the cover image for Sade: Sex and Death, which included Apollinaire's The Divine Marquis, a revised translation of which now appears in Sade's Stories, Tales, and Fables, published by Contra Mundum Press. Book details: rjdent.com/stories-tales-…

Stories, Tales, and Fables by Marquis de Sade Translated by @RJDent contramundumpress.com/stories-tales-…

“a dream of Stalin a dream of Celan a dream of parents a dream of houses” — From “The Dream of the Desert in the Book” by Pierre Joris contramundumpress.com/in-between-kee…

In Between Keep Moving: A Pierre Joris Reader coming soon

Léon-Paul Fargue on the fate of Montmartre, written in the late 1930s. From The Stroller of Paris, forthcoming soon from our friends Eris Press

“the only one of my birds left is me & I worry that I may be more rant than core” — From “Last Cor Poem” by Pierre Joris contramundumpress.com/in-between-kee…

"A nomadic poetics is a war machine, always on the move, always changing, morphing, moving through languages, cultures, terrains, times without stopping" — Pierre Joris contramundumpress.com/in-between-kee…