{"id":340,"date":"2025-02-19T17:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/08\/books_n_stuff\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T23:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:18:55","slug":"books_n_stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/02\/books_n_stuff.html","title":{"rendered":"My Books<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Several books of poems have been published in recent years by Moloko Print, Statdlichter Presse, Phantom Outlaw Editions, and Cold Turkey Press.<\/p>\n\n\n

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 A bilingual edition of Kleine Tiere<\/a> (Small Animals) from Stadtlichter Presse<\/a>, with English originals and German translations on facing pages.<\/em> (Click to purchase in Europe.)<\/a> To order in the US and Canada, kindly send requests to Straight Up via \u201ccontact<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A 2026 edition, newly designed, available in hardcover<\/a> and paperback<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Keyboard Mouth \u2022 Klaviat\u00fcr Des Mundes<\/strong> Poems in a bilingual edition with collages is out now<\/a> from Moloko<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moloko Print (2025)
Poems & Collages by Jan Herman<\/em>
with German translation of the poems by Florian Vetsch.<\/em> Click to read pages 22-23.<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Click to read pages 88 and 89<\/a><\/em> “These poems are free sonnets of experience that even Blake would favour. They are tears for the tongue to be savoured once tasted, and like a drop for the eye, ear, or mind, they restore perception to its rightful place. They are dark diamonds” <\/em>
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Moloko Print has published a bilingual edition of Your Obituary Is Waiting,<\/em> containing 42 deformed sonnets.”The German translations are by Gregor Pott. On the cover is one of Norman O. Mustill’s “flypaper collages” from the book.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moloko Print, 2020<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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My biography of the Hollywood director William Wyler, A Talent for Trouble<\/a>,<\/em> is available as an ebook at Amazon<\/a> and an ebook on iTunes<\/a> at the Apple store. Putnam published it in hardcover<\/a>, and Da Capo Press published it in paperback<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several other books, include a collection of theater criticism, Second Nights (Vol.1)<\/a> and (Vol. 2)<\/a>, as well as The Z Collection: Portraits & Sketches<\/a>,<\/em> published by Blue Wind Press in an American edition and by Moloko Print in a European edition<\/a>. (Rest assured the title of the book, first published in 2015 by AC Books<\/a>, has nothing to do with the letter “Z” symbolizing support for rasPUTIN’s criminal war<\/a> against Ukraine.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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The American edition from Blue Wind Press is available here<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

“Once, a mere blink in the eye of eternity but actually several generations ago, literary essays were considered a high art form. Not the kind that appear today in the New York Review of Books continually reinforcing the old in-joke \u201cReview of Each Other\u2019s Books,\u201d or writings in pursuit of academic self-advancement, but something like free spirits writing intelligently about fellow free spirits.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Jan Herman is that kind of essayist, with a biography to match. A cultural writer for newspapers in the era when millions of readers looked to serious commentary there, a contributor to literary journals, and an avant-gardist who worked everywhere from City Lights Books in San Francisco to Something Else Press in Vermont, he continues onward these days into his seventies at ArtsJournal. Formats change, the editorial eye remains.”<\/em> \u2014 Paul Buhle, Rain Taxi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First American edition.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

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European edition of The Z Collection<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Published in Germany with the American text and color illustrations. [Moloko Print<\/a>, 2018]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Moloko Print (2022). Purchase for $12 plus postage by sending an email to Straight Up.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Phantom Outlaw Editions, 2025. Available in hardcover.<\/a><\/em>
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Verlag Engstler, 2017. <\/a><\/em>
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Phantom Outlaw Editions<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Recently I’ve written a cycle of “deformed sonnets.” You can read a collection of them in All <\/i>That<\/i><\/span><\/font> Would Ever After Not Be Said<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the poems have also been published by Peter Engstler Verlag in a bi-lingual English-German edition titled FOURTEEN: Deformed Sonnets<\/em><\/a>. (The German translations are by Gregor Pott.) Other poems in the cycle have been published in The Way the Lines Break<\/a><\/em>, and in handmade limited editions by Cold Turkey Press. Here is Malcolm RItchie’s review<\/a> <\/em>of All That Would Ever After Not Be Said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Jay Jeff Jones posted this review:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Purchase for $12 plus postage by sending an email to Straight Up.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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COLLATERAL DAMAGE<\/em> (Click to order.)<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Moloko has also published an enhanced facsimile edition of my old project Brion Gysin Let the Mice In<\/a><\/em>, and in case anyone is interested, Collateral Damage: The Daily History of a Blog<\/a>, traces blogposts of mine from more than a decade ago with a foreword by William Osborne. “If there is a single ethos that defines this collection of blog entries,” he writes, “it is that the arts do not exist in a vacuum, that culture is holistically connected to every aspect of society. … This blog captured the American cultural zeitgeist in the aftermath of 9\/11. Written in Manhattan during a 14-month period between May 2002 and July 2003, it provided witty, detailed, atmospheric snapshots of a wide cross-section of the arts, media, and politics during a pivotal time in U.S. history, attracting millions of readers as the most popular blog by far during the early years of MSNBC.com.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Out of print but available here.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I am also the co-author of the experimental fiction Cut Up or Shut Up<\/a><\/em>,<\/em><\/a> a collaboration with Carl Weissner and Jurgen Ploog (with a “tickertape” intro by William S. Burroughs), and produced The Something Else Yearbook,<\/em><\/a> an anthology of the arts, as editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Several books of poems are published by Moloko Print and Stadtlichter Presse in bilingual (American-German) editions, and by Cold Turkey Press in handmade chapbooks. “The Z Collection” appeared in three editions, by AC Books, Blue Wind Press, and Moloko Print.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,19,18,4,20,21,22,17,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-about","8":"category-art","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-media","12":"category-movies","13":"category-music","14":"category-political-culture","15":"category-theater","16":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kleine-tere-front-cover-240.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-5u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72875,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/72875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}