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Books by Silem Mohammad
  | | The Front by K. Silem Mohammad Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2009 by Roof Books ISBN-13: 978-1-931824-35-4, ISBN: 1-931824-35-5 "Poetry. Flarf. Kenny Goldsmith said that "K. Silem Mohammad is the Andy Warhol of contemporary poetry, acutely scraping the bottom of the cultural barrel with such prescience, precision, and sensitivity that we are forced to reevaluate the nature of the language engulfing us. Our first impulse is to flee, to deny its worth, to turn away from it, to write it off as a big joke; but as with Warhol's car crashes or electric chairs, we are e ..." |
 | | Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy(1st Edition) How to Philosophize With a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch (Popular Culture and Philosophy, Vol. 29) by Richard Greene, K. Silem Mohammad, Richard/ Moh Greene Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Open Court ISBN-13: 978-0-8126-9634-9, ISBN: 0-8126-9634-4 "The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time. In this witty collection of articles, no subject is too taboo for the writers to tackle. From an aesthetic meditation on the use of spraying blood in Kill Bill to the conundrum of translation and reference in Vincent and Jules' discussion abo ..." |
 | | A Thousand Devils by K. Silem Mohammad Paperback, 98 Pages, Published 2004 by Combo Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9728880-0-4, ISBN: 0-9728880-0-4 "Poetry. "If an ancient had an epileptic seizure, he was possessed by a thousand devils. When he regained consciousness, the devils were driven out by a healer. The devils had to go someplace. In this case they have gone into the poems.The poems roar or whisper balefully from the sand or from the wind, or stir unseen in the coiling silence; or fall from the heavens like crushing incubi.With their dismal fooleries they trasform our worthl ..." |
 | | Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy(1st Edition) New Life for the Undead (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by Matthew Walker, William S. Larkin, Hamish Thompson, Manuel Vargas, Larry Hauser, Adam Barrows, Dale Jacquette, John Draeger, Wayne Yuen, Robert Arp, Richard Greene, K.Silem Mohammad Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Open Court ISBN-13: 978-0-8126-9683-7, ISBN: 0-8126-9683-2 "Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and vampires have taken over TV shows, comic books, cartoons, video games, and movies. Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy drags the theories of famous philosophers like Socrates and Descartes into the territory of the undead, exploring questions like: Why do vampires and vegetarians share a simil ..." |
 | | Spenser in the Moment by Paul J. Hecht, J. B. Lethbridge, Dr Gavin Alexander, April Bernard, Elisabeth Chaghafi, K. Silem Mohammad, Syrithe Pugh, Kathryn Walls, Gordon Teskey, Lethbridge/Hecht/Ale Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-684-2, ISBN: 1-61147-684-4 "Spenser in the Moment collects specially commissioned essays critical of established readings, each of which in surveying the state of the art attempts radically to unsettle our conception of the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). The editors were drawn together by a shared restlessness with the canonical Spenser, and a sense that attention especially to Spenser's musical qualities, and the distinctiveness of his poetic style compare ..." |
 | | Breathalyzer by K. Silem Mohammad Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 2008 by Edge Books ISBN-13: 978-1-890311-23-0, ISBN: 1-890311-23-5 "Poetry. "Goofy, weird, beyond funny, wise, wicked, K. Silem Mohammad is the exorcist giving us all a ride home. Beyond the pale, right with it, he's my poet laureate for our frightening state of the union"--Linh Dinh. "They say Auden was the first poet to be truly at home in the modern world. Mohammad is the first to be utterly unimaginable in any other. His poems communicate a total, infectious joy at being alive today, in our F'ed-up ..." |
 | | Deer Head Nation by K. Silem Mohammad Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2003 by Tougher Disguises Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-9740167-0-2, ISBN: 0-9740167-0-5 "K. Silem Mohammad's 'Deer Head Nation' occupies a territory where the borders between hypertext and intertextuality are patrolled by robot tank cars and killer hovercrafts. In these poems, the vampiric fallacy of globalism is intercepted via such middle-American iconography as the mounted deer head, Guns N' Roses t-shirts, and Halloween Pumpkin Bubble Lights that become accessory devices to the machinery of war. Transrational lyric asse ..." |
 | | 12 Abandoned Poems by Barry Schwabsky, Kilmog Press 24 Pages, Published 2010 by Kilmog Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9864616-7-5, ISBN: 0-9864616-7-9 |
 | | (1st Edition) [ [ [ The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless[ THE UNDEAD AND PHILOSOPHY: CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOULLESS ] By Greene, Richard ( Author )Sep-01-2006 Paperback by Richard Greene, K. Silem. Mohammad Paperback, 261 Pages, Published 2006 by Open Court Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-0-8126-9601-1, ISBN: 0-8126-9601-8 "Though Bram Stoker coined the term, the undead have stalked the human imagination for eons, appearing in the myths and legends of nearly all cultures. The concept of people, or unpeople, interacting with others while devoid of humanity provides a wealth of material for philosophical speculation. Encompassing George Romero's radiation-spawned Living Dead, the "infected" of 28 Days Later, as well as more traditional zombies and vampires, ..." |
 | | The Funk & Wag from A to Z (Menil Collection) by Mel Chin, Nick Flynn, Jen Bervin, Mary Jo Bang, Terrence Hayes, Ishion Hutchinson, Michael Klein, Genine Lentine, Ben Marcus, Tamalyn Miller, Rick Moody, Valzhyna Mort, Kristin Prevallet, Claudia Rankine, Haun Saussy, Barry Schwabsky, Ravi Shankar, Eleni Sikélionòs, Lili Taylor, Catherine Wagner, K. Silem Mohammad, C. D. Wright Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2014 by The Menil Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-300-20450-6, ISBN: 0-300-20450-7 "This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set of Funk & Wagnall s "Universal Standard Encyclopedia" (ca. 195356) and began visually re-editing. Thousands of images rendered by photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid-cen ..." |
 | | Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy New Life for the Undead (Large Print 16pt) by Greene Richard, K. Silem Mohammad Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2010 by Readhowyouwant Large_Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-0107-9, ISBN: 1-4596-0107-6 "Richard Greene and K Silem Mohammad. our leading thinkers teach us ... At long last we have a vital perspective that has been sadly lacking: authentic vampire reactions to the way vampires are depicted in popular culture.” -JOHN R. SHOOK ..." |
 | | Curio Grotesques and Satires from the Electronic Age (Paperback) by Elizabeth Bachinsky, K. Silem Mohammad Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2009 by Bookthug ISBN-13: 978-1-897388-40-2, ISBN: 1-897388-40-3 "Informed by the writings of the 20th century's (and even the 21st century's!)most eclectic authors, CURIO is quirky and sly--an ironic mixture simultaneously ..." |
 | | Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy(Large Print) How to Philosophize with a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch by Richard Greene, K. Silem Mohammad Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2012 by Readhowyouwant Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-0109-3, ISBN: 1-4596-0109-2 "In Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy, seventeen professional thinkers shamelessly exploit the cinematic achievement of Tarantino for all the steamy, sensational metaphysics and epistemology they can wring out of it. Are these eruptions of intelligent thought merely a cynical hypnotic manipulation of our cerebral cortexes? Or can we somehow relate them to the human values that really matter pyrotechnic car chases, Mexican standoffs, and e ..." |
 | | Flarf An Anthology of Flarf by Drew Gardner, Sharon Mesmer, Nada Gordon, K. Silem Mohammad, Gary Sullivan Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Edge Books ISBN-13: 978-1-890311-46-9, ISBN: 1-890311-46-4 "Poetry. Flarf. The first revolutionary artistic movement of the 21st century? An imperialist gesture? The new Dada? A marketing strategy? What began as a coinage by Gary Sullivan for certain "so bad it's good" aesthetic effects, combined with Drew Gardner's innovation "google sculpting," quickly became an artistic movement noticed by the BBC, Boston Review, The New York Times, Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and others. FL ..." |
 | | Die Untoten und die Philosophie. Schlauer werden mit Zombies, Werwölfen und Vampiren.(1st Edition) by Richard Greene, K. Silem Mohammad, Christina Schmutz, Frithwin Wagner-Lippok Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2010 by Tropen ISBN-13: 978-3-608-50403-3, ISBN: 3-608-50403-6 |
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