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Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground—people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Pocket Poets Series #0047: Listen!: Early Poems, 1913-1918 by Vladimir Mayakovsky Publisher Comments “Nathaniel Mackey's poem is a brilliant renewal of and experiment with the language of our spiritual condition and a measure of what poetry gives in trust-'heart's/meat' and the rush of language to bear it.” —Robin Blaser “Mackey&... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Another City: Writing from Los Angeles by David L. Ulin Publisher Comments Nonfiction. California Studies. Edited by David L. Ulin. Stories, chronicles, and poems by both well-established and up-and-coming young writers about how it was to come to LA or what it was like to grow up there, about the ocean and the desert, the... (read more) Your price: $16.25 New - Trade Paper
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Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda by Luis Cernuda Publisher Comments The Prose and Poems of Luis Cernuda.... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Trade Paper
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The World's Embrace: Selected Poems by Abdellatif Laabi Publisher Comments Compelling poems from one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed of contemporary North African writers. Imprisoned for many years by the Moroccan authorities, Laâbi’s poetry is haunted by memories of torture and prisons and bears... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Publisher Comments "This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history. From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Even though some say that... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Poems of Fernando Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa Publisher Comments Fernando Pessoa is Portugal’s most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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City of Memory: And Other Poems by Jose Emilio Pacheco Publisher Comments The leading poet of his generation, José Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico’s most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied by beautifully rendered translations.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Keys To the Garden : New Israeli Writing (96 Edition) by Ammiel (ed.) Alcalay Publisher Comments This first anthology of twentieth-century Israeli literature to feature the work of writers who were born in—or whose families originated from—the Levant, Turkey, Iran, India, and Arab worlds represents twenty-four authors whose concerns... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sarajevo Blues (98 Edition) by Semezdin Mehmedinovic Publisher Comments From one of Bosnia’s most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Twenty Prose Poems by Charles Baudelaire Publisher Comments From the introduction by Michael Hamburger: “Baudelaire's prose poems were written at long intervals during the last twelve or thirteen years of his life. The prose poem was a medium much suited to his habits and character. Being pre-eminently a... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #41: Roman Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini Publisher Comments The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet—the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets Series #53: Save Twilight: Selected Poems by Julio Cortc!zar Publisher Comments The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music, art,... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets Series #54: Dino Campana: Orphic Songs: Pocket Poets Series No. 54 by Dino Campana Publisher Comments Dino Campana wrote the unique, visionary masterwork of Italian literature Orphic Songs when he was in his twenties. The originality, rapturous language, and strange beauty of his poetry make him as important to twentieth-century poetry as Garc&... (read more) Your price: $12.75 New - Trade Paper 
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Horses in the Air and Other Poems by Jorge Guillen Publisher Comments Poetry. Latino/a Studies. This collection, first published in Spanish in 1987, has been translated into English by Cola Franzen and re-published by City Lights Books. Jorge Guillen, one of the great poets of the Generation of '27, went into voluntary... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Trade Paper
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Anthology of Black Humor by Andrc) Breton Publisher Comments This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Points of Departure: New Stories from Mexico by Monica Lavin Publisher Comments Fiction. Latino/a Studies. Translated by Gustavo V. Segade. POINTS OF DEPARTURE brings together seventeen Mexican authors born in the 1950s and 1960s, most of whom have never before been published in English. Magical realism and exoticism are nowhere to... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Critical Condition: Women on the Edge of Violence by Amy Scholder Publisher Comments Fiction. The women in CRITICAL CONDITION challenge abuse and invisibility with powerful literary and visual art. They put a spin on issues of women and violence by focusing on women who fight back, sometimes killing their abusers; women who control their... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Monstrous and the Marvelous by Rikki Ducornet Publisher Comments Literary Criticism. With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays... (read more) Your price: $12.75 New - Trade Paper
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Ode to Walt Whitman and Other Poems: And Other Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca Publisher Comments Collected here in one bilingual edition are new translations of four small books of poems that were published during Federico García Lorca's lifetime and span his most creative years. First Songs, poems inspired by the Andalusian countryside... (read more) Your price: $13.50 New - Trade Paper
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