{"product_id":"9780872860001","title":"Artaud Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I am the man,\" wrote Artaud, \"who has best charted his inmost self.\" Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote \u003ci\u003eVan Gogh the Man Suicided by Society\u003c\/i\u003e raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud’s vatic thunder still crashes above the \"larval confusion\" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonine Artaud, was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Hirschman (b. December 13, 1933, in New York, NY) is a poet and social activist who has written more than 50 volumes of poetry. Dismissed from teaching at UCLA for anti-war activities in 1966, he moved to San Francisco in 1973, and was the city's present poet laureate. Hirschman translates nine languages and edited \u003ci\u003eThe Artaud Anthology.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018851074288,"sku":"9780872860001","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872860001_p0.jpg?v=1763831745","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872860001","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}