Fiction. CENTURY DEAD CENTER contains George Economou's prose, poetry, translations, and visual art - a selection of work spanning eighteen years. The title piece drives home Walter Benjamin's claim, in "Theses on the Philosophy of History," that "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." In CENTURY DEAD CENTER," the phantasmagorical information age eclipses the sleep of reason.
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Fiction. CENTURY DEAD CENTER contains George Economou's prose, poetry, translations, and visual art - a selection of work spanning eighteen years. The title piece drives home Walter Benjamin's claim, in "Theses on the Philosophy of History," that "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." In CENTURY DEAD CENTER," the phantasmagorical information age eclipses the sleep of reason.
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Add this copy of Century Dead Center to cart. $3.50, like new condition, Sold by Bedrock Books & Art rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Helena, MT, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Left Hand Books.
Add this copy of Century Dead Center & Other Poems to cart. $6.00, new condition, Sold by Bedrock Books & Art rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Helena, MT, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Left Hand Books.
Add this copy of Century Dead Center to cart. $14.24, like new condition, Sold by Longhouse, Pub. & Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from West Brattleboro, VT, UNITED STATES, published by Left Hand Books, 1997.
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SIGNED. Fine and bright glossy with trifle sunning to one edge. Otherwise quite handsome all around. Softcover. With a centerpiece feature of the poet's colored paintings. Affectionately inscribed, dated and signed by the poet on the half title page "Wellfleet, August 31, 2000."
Add this copy of Century Dead Center to cart. $20.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Left Hand Books.
Add this copy of Century Dead Center to cart. $48.94, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Left Hand Books.
Add this copy of Century Dead Center to cart. $250.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Left Hand Books.
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Fine. First edition. Perfectbound in glossy wrappers. sunned at the spine, else fine. Although not signed, it's noted in Economou's hand as "author's copy December 3, 1997." Also laid in is a postcard address to Economou and his wife, the poet Rochelle Owens at their Norman, Oklahoma address, from one of their mother's trips to Lincoln, Montana.
