Le Domaine du Néant.
Distinctively Dionysian is now available here on Bacchus Editions. The current issue is out now.
Contents
SECTION ONE
Page 1: Domaine du Néant: Winter’s Residue / The Slow Bloom of Spring 2026
Introductory welcome to Le Domaine du Néant
Page 2: Cum Decadentia, Vita.
Second introduction / opening invocatio
Pages 3–5: Cartography of Le Domaine du Néant
A map of the issue, the Dancing in the Backwoods series, and the surrounding terrain
Pages 6–7: Feature Intro: How to Bury an Anarchist, Vol. II — Édition Révisée
Page 8: Rainer Maria Rilke, In April
Pages 9–11: Excerpt from How to Bury an Anarchist, Vol. II
To Die One’s Own Way: Funerary Autonomy and the Sovereignty of Ending
Page 12: Cantique Souterrain / Subterranean Canticle
French poem and English rendering by Fíona Vivienne
Pages 12–14: Excerpt from How to Bury an Anarchist, Vol. II
The Autumn of One’s Own Life: Endings as Aesthetic Sovereignty
Page 15: Hugo Simberg, Kuoleman puutarha / The Garden of Death
With accompanying spring/death quotations
SECTION TWO: INTERLUDES
Pages 16–17: Twilight with Nietzsche
Page 18: Charles Baudelaire, Sonnet d’automne
Page 19: The Leaves That Asked Nothing
Max Stirner at winter’s ending
Pages 20–21: On the Soft Violence of Beauty at the Edge of Thaw
SECTION THREE: DANCING IN THE BACKWOODS
Page 22: Extrait du Dancing in the Backwoods: Fragments et Essais Choisis
Section introduction
Pages 23–24: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book I: The Feral Masquerade, Dreaming with Decay
Pages 24–25: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book II: The Soil Remains Intoxicated, The Erotics of Finality
Pages 25–26: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book II: The Soil Remains Intoxicated; Funeral for the Future
Pages 26–28: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book II: The Soil Remains Intoxicated; Parfum de Retrait: A Pan-Secessionism Beyond Strategy?
Pages 28–29: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book V: The Disloyal Animal; Farewell as Form
Page 29: Poem: Negative Space
SECTION FOUR: EXTRAITS, REVUES ET AVANT-PREMIÈRES
Page 30: Extraits, Revues et Avant-Premières
Introduction to A Glimpse Into Bacchus Editions and Works Over Winter
Pages 31–34: A Glimpse Into: Dancing Into Oblivion: Poetic Explorations of Dying
Selections from Wolfi Landstreicher’s forthcoming Bacchus Editions book
Pages 35–36: Works Over Winter
God’s Suicide and the Long Thaw: On Philipp Mainländer’s Metaphysics of Dissolution
Pages 36–38: Works Over Winter
The Precision of Disappearance: Jacques Rigaut and the Aesthetic of Finality
Pages 39–41: Works Over Winter
The School of the Dead: On Exactness, Writing, and What Refuses to Return
On Hélène Cixous’ Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
Pages 41–44: Works Over Winter
The Animal Without Consolation
On John Gray’s Straw Dogs
Pages 44–47: Works Over Winter
The Savage God: On Refusal, Form, et the Limits of Explanation
On Al Alvarez’s The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
Pages 47–51: Works Over Winter
On Coldness, Form, the Refusal of Entry
On Fleur Jaeggy’s I Am the Brother of XX
Page 51: Poem: Nothing binds, and still the wire sings between the teeth
SECTION FIVE: NEW WRITINGS
Page 52: Section introduction to the new writings
Pages 53–56: The End of Managed Distance
Pages 56–59: The Persistence of Soft Language in Hard Conditions
SECTION SIX: LETTERS / CORRESPONDENCES
Page 60: Introductory note to the correspondences
Pages 60–62: A Quiet Correspondence, Held at the Edge of Language
Sur l’impossible patience, acid words, et ce qui cède — for Alejandro de Acosta
Pages 62–67: Dear John: On Lived Poetry and the Promise of Return
A letter to the late John Moore
Pages 68–73: What Persists Without Ground, and What Language Does Not Recover
Ce qui persiste sans sol, ce que la langue ne retrouve pas — for Peter Gelderloos
Page 73: A Glossary Without Return
SECTION SEVEN: FIN, POUR L’INSTANT
Page 74: Fin, pour l’instant
Section introduction and next issue threshold
Pages 75–79: What Spring Disturbs Does Not Return to Rest
On Colette Peignot and the forms that fail to contain her
Pages 79–80: Antonin Artaud, Le Théâtre et son Double
Excerpt from Le Théâtre de la cruauté (Premier manifeste)
Pages 80–81: Jean Genet, Le Funambule
Pages 81–82: Unica Zürn, L’Homme-Jasmin
Pages 82–83: Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, La Vie l’Amour la Mort le Vide et le Vent
With Au vent du nord / To the North Wind
FINAL PAGES
Summer ’26 preview, Dancing Into Oblivion announcement, How to Bury an Anarchist Vol. II release, closing note, Dionysian ordering, reference/contents.
Le Domaine du Néant.
Distinctively Dionysian is now available here on Bacchus Editions. The current issue is out now.
Contents
SECTION ONE
Page 1: Domaine du Néant: Winter’s Residue / The Slow Bloom of Spring 2026
Introductory welcome to Le Domaine du Néant
Page 2: Cum Decadentia, Vita.
Second introduction / opening invocatio
Pages 3–5: Cartography of Le Domaine du Néant
A map of the issue, the Dancing in the Backwoods series, and the surrounding terrain
Pages 6–7: Feature Intro: How to Bury an Anarchist, Vol. II — Édition Révisée
Page 8: Rainer Maria Rilke, In April
Pages 9–11: Excerpt from How to Bury an Anarchist, Vol. II
To Die One’s Own Way: Funerary Autonomy and the Sovereignty of Ending
Page 12: Cantique Souterrain / Subterranean Canticle
French poem and English rendering by Fíona Vivienne
Pages 12–14: Excerpt from How to Bury an Anarchist, Vol. II
The Autumn of One’s Own Life: Endings as Aesthetic Sovereignty
Page 15: Hugo Simberg, Kuoleman puutarha / The Garden of Death
With accompanying spring/death quotations
SECTION TWO: INTERLUDES
Pages 16–17: Twilight with Nietzsche
Page 18: Charles Baudelaire, Sonnet d’automne
Page 19: The Leaves That Asked Nothing
Max Stirner at winter’s ending
Pages 20–21: On the Soft Violence of Beauty at the Edge of Thaw
SECTION THREE: DANCING IN THE BACKWOODS
Page 22: Extrait du Dancing in the Backwoods: Fragments et Essais Choisis
Section introduction
Pages 23–24: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book I: The Feral Masquerade, Dreaming with Decay
Pages 24–25: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book II: The Soil Remains Intoxicated, The Erotics of Finality
Pages 25–26: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book II: The Soil Remains Intoxicated; Funeral for the Future
Pages 26–28: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book II: The Soil Remains Intoxicated; Parfum de Retrait: A Pan-Secessionism Beyond Strategy?
Pages 28–29: Excerpt from Dancing in the Backwoods, Book V: The Disloyal Animal; Farewell as Form
Page 29: Poem: Negative Space
SECTION FOUR: EXTRAITS, REVUES ET AVANT-PREMIÈRES
Page 30: Extraits, Revues et Avant-Premières
Introduction to A Glimpse Into Bacchus Editions and Works Over Winter
Pages 31–34: A Glimpse Into: Dancing Into Oblivion: Poetic Explorations of Dying
Selections from Wolfi Landstreicher’s forthcoming Bacchus Editions book
Pages 35–36: Works Over Winter
God’s Suicide and the Long Thaw: On Philipp Mainländer’s Metaphysics of Dissolution
Pages 36–38: Works Over Winter
The Precision of Disappearance: Jacques Rigaut and the Aesthetic of Finality
Pages 39–41: Works Over Winter
The School of the Dead: On Exactness, Writing, and What Refuses to Return
On Hélène Cixous’ Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
Pages 41–44: Works Over Winter
The Animal Without Consolation
On John Gray’s Straw Dogs
Pages 44–47: Works Over Winter
The Savage God: On Refusal, Form, et the Limits of Explanation
On Al Alvarez’s The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
Pages 47–51: Works Over Winter
On Coldness, Form, the Refusal of Entry
On Fleur Jaeggy’s I Am the Brother of XX
Page 51: Poem: Nothing binds, and still the wire sings between the teeth
SECTION FIVE: NEW WRITINGS
Page 52: Section introduction to the new writings
Pages 53–56: The End of Managed Distance
Pages 56–59: The Persistence of Soft Language in Hard Conditions
SECTION SIX: LETTERS / CORRESPONDENCES
Page 60: Introductory note to the correspondences
Pages 60–62: A Quiet Correspondence, Held at the Edge of Language
Sur l’impossible patience, acid words, et ce qui cède — for Alejandro de Acosta
Pages 62–67: Dear John: On Lived Poetry and the Promise of Return
A letter to the late John Moore
Pages 68–73: What Persists Without Ground, and What Language Does Not Recover
Ce qui persiste sans sol, ce que la langue ne retrouve pas — for Peter Gelderloos
Page 73: A Glossary Without Return
SECTION SEVEN: FIN, POUR L’INSTANT
Page 74: Fin, pour l’instant
Section introduction and next issue threshold
Pages 75–79: What Spring Disturbs Does Not Return to Rest
On Colette Peignot and the forms that fail to contain her
Pages 79–80: Antonin Artaud, Le Théâtre et son Double
Excerpt from Le Théâtre de la cruauté (Premier manifeste)
Pages 80–81: Jean Genet, Le Funambule
Pages 81–82: Unica Zürn, L’Homme-Jasmin
Pages 82–83: Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, La Vie l’Amour la Mort le Vide et le Vent
With Au vent du nord / To the North Wind
FINAL PAGES
Summer ’26 preview, Dancing Into Oblivion announcement, How to Bury an Anarchist Vol. II release, closing note, Dionysian ordering, reference/contents.
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