VLAK: Contemporary Poetics and the Arts

VLAK #2

by Louis Armand (Editor), Edmund Berrigan (Editor), Carol Watts (Editor)

VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts (May, 2011), edited by Louis Armand, Edmund Berrigan, Carol Watts, Stephan Delbos, David Vichnar, Jane Lewty & Ali Alizadeh. ISSN 1804-512X. Work by David Hayman, Vincent Katz, Philippe Sollers, Niall Lucy, Alice Notley, Emmanuelle Pireyre, Jeroen Nieuwland, Holly Tavel, John Kinsella, Urs Jaeggi, Adam Trachtman, Leïla Sebbar, Dorra Chammam, Ali Daghman, Mehdi Mahfoudh, Ken Edwards, Carla Harryman, Travis Jeppesen, Steve McCaffery, Hank Lazer, Petra Ganglbauer, Marjorie Perloff, Michal Ajvaz, Ondřej Buddeus, Mark Melnicove, Adrian Clarke, Ania Walwicz, Felicity Plunkett, Gig Ryan, Michael Farrell, Pam Brown, Chris Edwards, Matt Hall, Charles Bernstein, Steve Benson, Katarzyna Bazarnik, Kate Durbin, Redell Olsen, Megan M. Garr, Amy De’Ath, Larry Sawyer, Amy King, Brendan Lorber, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Macgregor Card, Noah Eli Gordon, Johan De Wit, Damien Ober, Joshua Mensch, Cralan Kelder, Robert Sheppard, Francesco Levato, DJ Huppatz.

424 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2011

About the author

Louis Armand is a writer and visual artist who has lived in Prague since 1994. He has worked as an editor and publisher, and as a subtitles technician at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and is an editor of VLAK magazine. He is the author of eight novels, including Breakfast at Midnight in 2012, "a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka's Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil" (Richard Marshall, 3:AM), CAIRO (Equus Press, 2014; short listed for the Guardian's Not-the-Booker Prize), and THE COMBINATIONS (Equus Press, 2016). Described as "Robert Pinget does Canetti (in drag in Yugoslavia)," Armand's third novel Clair Obscur was published by Equus in 2011. His previous novel, Menudo (Antigen), was described as "unrelenting, a flying wedge, an encyclopaedia of the wasteland, an uzi assault pumping desolation lead... inspiring!" (Thor Garcia, author of The News Clown).