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Launched in the autumn of 2023, Hanuman Editions is a publishing project chasing the specter of a contemporary, planetary avant-garde.
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For our new followers ~ welcome & a bit about us:
We are a publishing project for playfully critical micro-format books, statements in miniature from key voices of our time, and evoking the historic avant-gardes.
More on our website:
Our second series is here and books are now being shipped. Thank you for your orders and your patience!
PS…box sets are available in three other colors, find yours at the link before they sell out:
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Queer icon, writer, Dreamlander, actress, underground IT girl and overall cult figure: Cookie Mueller would have turned 75 on March 2nd.
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Here it is folks, our first series of Hanuman Editions.
Ahead of our second series with new contributors in Spring ‘24, we are reissuing six titles as a tribute to Hanuman Books, featuring John Ashbery, Dodie Bellamy, Eileen Myles, Max Beckmann, Cookie Mueller, and René Daumal
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Vila-Matas with Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster, longtime friends and interlocutors 🖤
An excerpt from Enrique Vila-Matas’ masterful “Insistence as a Fine Art,” pre-order here:
@TomMir7
@dedreytnien
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Welcome to Hanuman Editions, a new series of small books featuring the most provocative and urgent voices of our epoch. We launch this autumn, and will announce our first six titles in late summer. Read more at the link below and help us spread the word!
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Joan Mitchell, title page from John Ashbery’s The Poems, 1960
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Classically trained cellist and longtime organizer of the Annual New York Avant-Garde Festival Charlotte Moorman performs her frequent collaborator Nam June Paik’s “TV Cello wearing TV Glasses,” 1971. (Photo: Takahiko Iimura)
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The Hanuman Series Two pre-orders are here! We are excited to finally reveal new writing by Bora Chung, Vivek Narayanan, Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, Enrique Vila-Matas, and McKenzie Wark, plus a Cookie Mueller reissue. All info at
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Jane Hammond’s “The Soapstone Factory 4” (1999), created from a prompt by John Ashbery over their eight year-long collaboration, and engaging with Ashbery’s perennial themes of reality, perception, and consciousness.
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Reminder that you can still
#dialapoem
by phoning +19179948949 (US) to hear readings selected by John Giorno between 1968 and 2019, from Joe Brainard, Robert Ashley, Bernadette Mayer, Amiri Baraka, Coil; poets, artists, friends…
#johngiorno
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Thank you all for your immense support and goodwill as we launched the press this year. We cherish it very much as we get ready for our forthcoming releases.
Here’s wishing you all a 2024 filled with great reading, meaningful ties, healing pedagogies, and abundant love.
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Two poems by Yi Sang. 'Poem No. 4' translated from the Korean by
@daybreakjung
& 'Memorandum on the Line' translated from Japanese by
@sawakonakayasu
.
@WavePoetry
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Friday reading on complexities of life and persona with Dodie Bellamy, Cookie Mueller, and Eileen Myles, from our debut series!
#internationalwomensday
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With these dust jackets for individual books, we finished color-palleting our first series (the funnest studio days)
These shades are a nod to de Staël’s post-war masterpiece Parc des Princes c. 1952 (and Ellsworth Kelly’s Newtonian colors from his work Spectrum V c. 1969)
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Hot off the press and being readied up!
A tremendous thank you to all of you who have pre-ordered! For those of you who haven’t and would like to, get yout copies now before they are mailed out to bookstores.
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Remembering German artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, who passed away this week. Wolf-Rehfeldt is known for her ‘typewritings,’ shared with artist contacts worldwide from behind her desk in GDR-era East Berlin, playful examples of concrete poetry and Kunstpostbriefe (Mail Art).
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Robert Smithson
A Heap of Language
("speech," "mother tongue," "Babel")
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In the spirit of the Japanese literary form zuihitsu (“follow the brush”), the cult duo of
@RaymondPettibon
and
@MikeTopp
lead us round a loop of juxtapositions, contradictions, and uh…sportsmen. Get your pre-orders in quick or leave it to the wrestlers:
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Bora Chung’s “Grocery List” (trans. Anton Hur) is a deadpan journey across the dividing lines of reality and thoughtform, then back again. For fans of Sayaka Murata and Raymond Carver, ripe apples and mysterious cores:
#borachung
@AntonHur
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The original Hanuman Books series featured artists, authors, & counterculture thinkers, including Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, Patti Smith, David Hockney, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Simone Weil, Candy Darling, John Ashbery, William Burroughs, Willem de Kooning, Eileen Myles, & more.
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From the ever avant-garde Enrique Vila-Matas, “Insistence as One of the Fine Arts” (trans. Kit Schluter) is a maze of folding turns, where voices of art and thought (Nietzsche, Gadda, Calvino, Orson Welles) rise and drift into a keenly elliptical flow.
#enriquevilamatas
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In the next few days Hanuman Editions (both box sets and individual books) will be made available in select book stores. Please make your Christmas orders here without delay, as we may run out v. soon given it is a limited print run.
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Laurie Anderson 'New York Times, Horizontal/China Times, Vertical' (1971-1979)
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From Niikuni Seiichi's Works 1952-1977, The Root of Evil (1972), Touch (1972), Nails (ca. 1971) & Elegy (1972).
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Early am mood boarding for our spring ‘24 series. Malevich’s twenty-seven drawings of costume designs, posters and other work for Matyushin’s opera Victory Over the Sun, 1913. (A key event in the Russian futurism and avant garde notorious for its libretto!)
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Follow the brush! The open weave of
@RaymondPettibon
and
@MikeTopp
’s “The Frontier Index” evokes zuihitsu, a Japanese literary form famously deployed by Sei Shōnagon in “The Pillow Book,” documenting imperial court life in the Heian period (and inspiring Peter Greenaway’s film).
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ABECEDA, the 1926 bookmaking collaboration between Czech modernist figures and members of the Devětsil movement poet Vladimir Nezval, polymathic designer Karel Teige, and the dancer Milča Mayerová, who evokes the letters of the Latin alphabet in her energetic poses.
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WORK WITH US//
We are looking for a part time assistant/ Social media person. Someone great across media and knows well the history of the Avant-garde, publishing, art and literature.
Living in London preferably, but we are open to enthusiastic others.
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Fugue in E. Sonic signs. Oulipo games.
Georges Perec 'Memory of a Trip to Thouars', translated by Philip Terry.
From 'The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec Calvino and the Adventures of Form, edited by Philip Terry (2019).
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London folks, these little guys are headed out to the bookstore at the Tate Modern, London and are available to buy tomorrow onwards
@Tate
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A limited edition (three hundred ONLY) of all titles from our debut series will be available in numbered collectors box sets in these yummy colours! While we work on bringing the titles to you, take your pick, share and tell us what you think…
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Gridding the old and the new.
Eileen and Dodie sent us pictures but we do think the others would be mighty pleased too! Ashbery particularly.
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There is a shortage of paper in Europe and after a days of waiting, ours arrived at the press from Italy today. Piles of Fedrigoni Arena Natural Rough. We go to print at 7am tomorrow.
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Lydia Davis 'The Outing', from Almost No Memory (1997).
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A tour through the archives with this 1988 profile of Hanuman Books in Arts Magazine, on working counter to mass culture, “keeping a light of faith alive,” and “one other thing: for lack of a better word, a sense of fun.”
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Rosemary Waldorp/ Camp Printing// Burning Deck. The Why of Death in de Chirico
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The arts have always taught us to see; for the first time in the history of the world a generation has grown up aware that it can see a figure in dim light as Rembrandt and the autumn trees as Jackson Pollock. The eye's intelligence must be learned.
— Guy Davenport on Brakhage
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Published in 1987 as a standalone volume by Hanuman Books, John Ashbery's "The Ice Storm" is an extended prose-poem by one of the most important and influential poets of our time.
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A 1971 concert poster for famed Indian classical singer and key avant-garde influence Pandit Pran Nath, with calligraphy by the late artist, Marian Zazeela (1940-2024) 🖤
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As an homage to what came before, for the debut series of Hanuman Editions we will reissue six texts from the mothership, aka Hanuman Books. From the next series on, we will publish five voices from our era, plus one reissue, twice per year. 1/2
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If you’ve got your eye on the emerald box set, you might want to act fast!
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A whole lot of Feminine Hijinx early this morning [Dodie Bellamy]
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Beginning with Series Two, we are offering two subscriptions options, for individual books and box sets!
Find out more at:
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Delectable candy coding from Hanuman’s debut series, with newly restocked books (alas, no more box sets) available here:
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A closer look at “Life Story,” a text by an iconic theorist and writer that asks “how to write not about love, but with love, in love, in form as well as content?” as the author negotiates between her body and the world. Contributor and pre-order announcements coming soon!
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Susan Hiller’s photobooth self-portrait, imbued with spectral layers of automatic writing, from a series created in the 1970-80s during late nights at London Tube stations.
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From a gray sample slip case to these gorgeous little objects. The books are ready folks! With a little help from the holiday postal services they should be on the way to you soon 🖤
Order here if you havent already:
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What does Art carry into this unfolding epoch of human history? Does it possess the means necessary for the construction of the new Great Style? Or does it suppose that the new epoch may not have a new style?
Naum Gabo| Antoine Pevsner (Realistic Manifesto, c.1920)
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Hannah Weiner from Code Poems, 1982.
"These poems & performance pieces are from the INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS for the Use of Al Nations, British Editions 1859, 1899 & American Edition, post-war, 1931, a visual signal system for ships at sea."
— Weiner in book introduction
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McKenzie Wark was among the first authors we hoped to publish as Hanuman Editions: she is an icon of many registers, and in “Life Story,” examines that status through a divulsion and revision of her multiple forms.
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We are now sold out of all the limited edition box sets in Series 1 ( and some of the individual books are already in reprint). Thank you all, particulary our readers as far away as Japan, China, Australia etc. You make a two people project feel so rewarding 🖤
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These beauties were shipped off to a contributor in NYC, as a temporary moodboard … (an artist whose book we cannot wait to bring to you)
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In “The Kuruntokai and Its Mirror,” a bilingual edition in Tamil and in English, Vivek Narayanan offers a new vision of a classical Sangam work, a formal gesture and a playful reincarnation. Pre-order below:
@naravive
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Authored by a cherished figure in modern Spanish literature, "Insistence as One of the Fine Arts" trades ekphrasis for passage through a hall of interlocutors, mirrors, and guides. This study of an artwork becomes much more, a meditation on painting, history, and present tense.
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Hanuman in every habitat 🌊 box sets, books, perfectly portable for a day out on the beach 🌀 show us where you bring yours!
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For days we’ve been geeking out on colour theory & Nicolas de Staël, who’s been integral to our debut series, in studio. Moreso as he felt no pressure to paint according to mood or season. Even in his bleakest days he couldn't resist the flourish of a bright orange or a deep red.
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Design is central to our books, to pay homage to their earlier form, starting with Clemente’s drawings of Hanuman.
All design for Hanuman Editions is done in house. Our Hanuman was hand drawn by Joshua Rothes (who may have rendered a hundred monkey gods in the process).
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Beginning in November, we will publish a set of six books every six months, inviting the most provocative & urgent voices of our epoch to speak in new tongues about the horror & exhilaration of our era, & of the mysteries of life which never, somehow, lessen. Sign up for updates!
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First published by Hanuman Books in 1986, Bread and Water is the debut short story collection by the renowned poet Eileen Myles, assembling six stories with an autobiographical flavor, of being a queer, working-class poet with a penchant for mischief..
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Books, loading…as we prepare for our next series announcements and pre-orders in the coming weeks, footage from the printing of our first series last fall, with a publishing press collective in East London.
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“Light haloed the sufi’s tomb / On the Yamuna’s bank wind-touched reeds / feared the pacing sun That / I can’t see you is not the only proof.”
—Vivek Narayanan, “The Kuruntokai and Its Mirror.”
@naravive
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Silence! Or, John Cage at work…we’re taking some quiet time on social media as we ready web updates & pre-orders for Series Two.
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"I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Exu (1988)
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Looking back on print proofs for our debut series! Series two is coming soon 🌀
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Josef Šíma’s 1929 portrait of writer, poet, Pataphysician and student of Sanskrit René Daumal in his hover between worlds.
Daumal engaged cosmology as poetic form in works like “The Lie of the Truth,” which we republished in our debut series:
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Hand painted cover of Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 journal c. 1915
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From the Japanese avant garde, Kumi Sugai’s Ko-ONI c. 1956
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“Two feminine figures that occasionally give the impression of being two primary masks of the same woman, one single person.” Romero de Torres’ “The Fortune Teller,” from Enrique Vila-Matas’ “Insistence as a Fine Art” (trans. Kit Schluter).
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From a compelling new voice in global literature, “Grocery List” presents a ghost story in another vein in its eerie tale of intimacy with appetite. The rituals and necessity of food being far from innocuous, “Grocery List” is a chilling treat for eaters of all kinds.
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And someday I want to make buildings along with my pictures. To build a tower in which mankind can shriek out its rage and despair and all their poor hopes and joys and wild yearning. A new church
[From Creative Credo, Hanuman Editions, 2023]
Max Beckmann, Leave Taking, 1942
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In this brief, dense essay, Daumal bids us to resist the very notion of the truth, and to recognize it as an artistic and metaphysical dead-end.
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Sexy and hilarious, "Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls" is a favorite from the original Hanuman catalog, an epistolary portrait of the absurdity of human connection. We're thrilled to bring it back as this series' reissue.
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Micro, macro: Yuji Agematsu’s tiny cellophane vitrine sculptures, made from detritus collected over daily walks through New York City, scaling blocks, neighborhoods, districts, migrations, patterns of behavior.
#yujiagematsu
#avanthanuman
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Marina Abramović, Rhythm 0, Naples, 1974. Six-hour performance where the artist stood still. The audience were invited to use any one of 72 objects that were placed on a table to do whatever they wished.
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From the desk of a writer in London,
#EileenMyles
“Bread and Water” & our emerald Series One box set ✍️📚
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Greg Masters and Eileen Myles photographed by Barry Kornbluh on the roof of 437 East 12th Street, NYC. An image from the same photoshoot is the new cover of “Bread and Water,” Myles’ first collection of short stories, published by Hanuman in 1986 and reissued in our debut series.
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Kazimir Malevich’s early Suprematist set designs for 1913 opera “Victory over the Sun.”
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Funny and brave, perfect but never pat, Cookie Mueller’s reissued classic, “Fan Mails, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls,” is, among many things, the ideal guidebook to a world of microcelebrity ideation. Pre-order yours here:
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“Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.”
John Ashbery
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Steel yourself for a free-wheeling tour through the dessicated landscape of twenty-first century America in "The Frontier Index," a collaboration between two of contemporary art and literature's wildest provocateurs in pen and ink. The road is yours ~ pre-orders will begin soon!
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The original Hanuman Books series featured artists, authors, & counterculture thinkers, including Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, Patti Smith, David Hockney, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Simone Weil, Candy Darling, John Ashbery, William Burroughs, Willem de Kooning, Eileen Myles, & more.
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Max Beckmann, On My Painting, Forthcoming Hanuman Editions’ 23
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Friday feelings courtesy of cult film, Toshio Matsumoto’s “Funeral Parade of Roses” (1969), following a young trans woman across underground queer Tokyo and through space and time, a singular work of experimental Japanese cinema.
#avanthanuman
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All our love to Patti Smith (and her anecdote on Raymond Foye and William Borroughs, while writing her book ‘Wool Gathering’ for Hanuman Books in 1992.)
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