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Touched by the Presence

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From Blondie's Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult

Gary Lachman
Inner Traditions ($30)

by Luke Gilfedder              

Few musicians in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame go from earning gold records to writing biographies of Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, and Madame Blavatsky. Yet Gary “Valentine” Lachman—the…

Ecstasy

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Alex Dimitrov
Alfred A. Knopf ($29)

by Walter Holland              

Alex Dimitrov, a clear and artful descendent of Frank O’Hara, richly appropriates the heady musings of the 1980s and 1990s, when Nan Goldin photoshoots in despondent shadowy doorways and bathroom stalls documented a version of New York City that has all…

MINNESOTA ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR

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Saturday, June 27, 2026 • 10am to 6pm • $5 entry
Minnesota State Fairgrounds, The North End Event Center

Rain Taxi is pleased to participate this year's Minnesota Antiquarian Book Fair! We’ll have all our chapbooks, broadsides, and other ephemera for sale at special prices, plus an assortment of cool…

Elizabethan Occult Poetics

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Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry

Rachel White
Liverpool University Press ($160)

by Patrick James Dunagan

As the Elizabethan era sought to explain and enhance a broad understanding of the natural orders of the world, magic and science remained interchangeably blended under the broad umbrella of the occult, incorporating…

Sleeping in the Courtyard

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Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora

Edited by Holly Mason Badra 
University of Arkansas Press ($26.95)

By Alan Ali Saeed               

While Sleeping in the Courtyard isn’t the first anthology to showcase the diversity and range of writing by Kurdish women, it is arguably the boldest. Varied in terms of both genre…

Lola the Interpreter

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Lyn Hejinian
Wesleyan University Press ($18.95)

by Luke Harley

Lola the Interpreter, the final work by Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024), stands as a crowning achievement of her career as an experimental poet. A sequel of sorts to Saga/Circus (Omnidawn, 2008), it continues her exploration of hybrid forms uniting poetry and…

Archive of Desire

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A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy

Robin Coste Lewis
Alfred A. Knopf ($27) 

by John Ngoc Nguyen

Robin Coste Lewis’s lustrous Archive of Desire hinges on a word it does not contain: “excuse.” The National Book Award–winning author’s third lyric performance opens with a handkerchief, an homage…

Here Comes the Sun

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A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

Bill McKibben
W.W. Norton & Company ($29.99)

by John Abbotts

In the preface to our co-authored book The Menace of Atomic Energy (W.W. Norton & Company, 1977), Ralph Nader describes a 1974 discussion with Dr. Alvin Weinberg, former…

Heart Lamp

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Banu Mushtaq
Translated by Deepa Bhasthi
And Other Stories ($19.95)

by Damhuri Muhammad

Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp: Selected Stories draws from six collections of fiction published in India since the 1990s; the first book by the Kannada-language writer to be published in English translation, it netted Mushtaq and translator Deepa…

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