On the eve of Halloween we’d like to welcome the extraordinary translator and poet Mark Spitzer. His long poem Demon Tool is scheduled to fall from the Ahadada presses here in Tokyo by the end of November and to arrive state-side just in time for the holiday season. Mark is known for his The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille (Dufour, 1998), Divine Filth; Lost Writings by Georges Bataille (Creation Books, 2004), and his From Absinthe to Abyssinia; Selected Miscellaneous, Obscure and Previously Untranslated Works of Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud (Creative Art Books, 2002). We’re tickled to have him. Jess