''Locus Solus'' was an American journal of experimental poetry and prose that published four issues in 1961 and 1962, one (III-IV) a double issue. The magazine was edited by the writer Harry Mathews and the poets

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, all of whom contributed to its four issues. The content was completely in English but the journal was published in France (in Lans-en-Vercors) by Mathews. The journal was named after the novel ''

Locus Solus ''Locus Solus'' is a 1914 French novel by Raymond Roussel. Plot summary John Ashbery summarizes ''Locus Solus'' thus in his introduction to Michel Foucault's ''Death and the Labyrinth'': "A prominent scientist and inventor, Martial Canterel, ...

'' by Raymond Roussel.

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