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Les Figues Press
Les Figues Press
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41 years old
California
United States
Last Login: 8/23/2009
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| General | Mrs. Porter’s Women’s Art Salon
The Press sponsors a women’s art salon and discussion in which artists working in all media (visual artists, writers, dancers, musicians) share their work and discuss how the presented material fits into a larger artistic and social frame. The Salon meets on the second Saturday of the month in mid-city Los Angeles. Interested parties should contact the Press for additional information and instructions.
TrenchArt: Annual Series of Experiments in Literature
Les Figues publishes TrenchArt, an annual series of innovative literature and poetics. Each TrenchArt series includes two poets and two prose writers whose work the Press situates within a larger discussion of contemporary aesthetics. Each series also incorporates works by contemporary visual artists representing additional aesthetic explorations.
By publishing individual titles as part of an annual series, the Press presents work in cultural conversation; to advance this exchange, all participants write an aesthetic essay or poetics, which is separately published as the series’ leading title. Each individually authored title includes an Introduction by a critic or another writer, thus providing another layer of critical engagement.
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 Inch Aeons by Nuala Archer. Intro by Pam Ore. Cover Art by Molly Corey. Illustrations by Tamzo.
 in the plain turn of the body make a sentence two plays by Sissy Boyd. Intro by Guy Zimmerman. Cover Art by Julie Thi Underhill.
 A Story of Witchery by Jennifer Calkins. Intro by Amy Gerstler. Illustrations by Sarah Lane. Cover Art by Stephanie Taylor.
 Requiem by Teresa Carmody. Intro by David L. Ulin. Cover Art by Stephanie Taylor.
Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World by Vincent Dachy. Intro by Mary Burger. Cover Art by Danielle Adair.
 Grammar Of The Cage by Pam Ore. Intro by Ingrid Wendt. Cover Art by Stephanie Taylor.
Dies: A Sentence by Vanessa Place. Intro by Susan McCabe. Art by Stephanie Taylor.
+|'me'S-pace by society for cUm|n linguistics. Intro by Dodie Bellamy.
Chop Shop by Stephanie Taylor. Intro by Vanessa Place. Art by Danielle Adair.
Voice of Ice by Alta Ifland
with an Introduction by
Gary Young. Visual art by Danielle Adair.
TRENCHART: CASEMENTS an anthology of new aesthetics Intro by Teresa Carmody & Vanessa Place. Work by Sissy Boyd, Vincent Dachy, Molly Corey, Julie Thi Underhill, Nuala Archer, Lisa Darms, Society for CUmIn Linguistics.
TRENCHART : MATERIAL Edited by Teresa Carmody An anthology of new work: aesthetic essays in varied form; fiction by Vanessa Place, Teresa Carmody; poetry by Jennifer Calkins, Pam Ore. Illustrations by Sarah Lane. Art by Stephanie Taylor.
The noulipian Analects edited by Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim.
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Les Figues Press creates aesthetic conversations between readers, writers, and artists.
Official mission statement:
Les Figues Press seeks to educate and encourage public appreciation of aesthetic-based writing and other art forms, and to further the discussion of literature and aesthetics in our time. By “aesthetic-based,” we mean work that grounds itself within a cultural tradition and holds the artist responsible for that cultural participation. We believe innovations in literature are not intuitively known, and that authors have an artistic obligation to assist the public in understanding and assessing writing that is as deeply serious as it is unfamiliar. We publish unconventional literature and poetics in order to introduce innovative work to the larger community, and to invigorate public and academic debate about experimental literature and literary aesthetics. We do not see ourselves as gatekeeper, but gate, providing a portal for literature that is difficult, demanding or otherwise unacceptable to an increasingly risk-averse publishing industry—literature whose existence is vital for a thriving culture.
Les Figues is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
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