{"product_id":"how-i-became-one-of-the-invisible-new-edition-paperback","title":"How I Became One of the Invisible, New Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Rattray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChris Kraus\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe only collection of Rattray's prose: essays that offer a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn order to become one of the invisible, it is necessary to throw oneself into the arms of God... Some of us stayed for weeks, some for months, some forever.\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eHow I Became One of the Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's \u003ci\u003eHow I Became One of the Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization from Pythagoras to In Nomine music to Hölderlin and Antonin Artaud. Rattray not only excavated this tradition, he embodied and lived it. He studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne but remained a poet, outside the academy. His stories \"Van\" and \"The Angel\" chronicle his travels in southern Mexico with his friend, the poet Van Buskirk, and his adventures after graduating from Dartmouth in the mid-1950s. Eclipsed by the more mediagenic Beat writers during his lifetime, Rattray has become a powerful influence on contemporary artists and writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiving in Paris, Rattray became the first English translator of Antonin Artaud, and he understood Artaud's incisive scholarship and technological prophecies as few others would. As he writes of his translations in \u003ci\u003eHow I Became One of the Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e, \"You have to identify with the man or the woman. If you don't, then you shouldn't be translating it. Why would you translate something that you didn't think had an important message for other people? I translated Artaud because I wanted to turn my friends on and pass a message that had relevance to our lives. Not to get a grant, or be hired by an English department.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompiled in the months before his untimely death at age 57, \u003ci\u003eHow I Became One of the Invisible \u003c\/i\u003eis the only volume of Rattray's prose. This new edition, edited by Robert Dewhurst, includes five additional pieces, two of them previously unpublished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Rattray (1946-1993) was a poet, translator and scholar, fluent in most Western languages, Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek. He translated the works of Antonin Artaud, René Crevel, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChris Kraus is the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 424\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47646793924829,"sku":"9781635900729","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/JeiXWrdxK9781635900729.webp?v=1773870872","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/how-i-became-one-of-the-invisible-new-edition-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}