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The Burroughs File by William S Burroughs Publisher Comments Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings by Edgar Allan Poe, with Appreciations by Edgar Allan Poe Publisher Comments An indispensable anthology of brilliant, hard-to-find writings by Poe on poetry, the imagination, humor, and the sublime, which adds a new dimension to his stature as a speculative thinker and philosopher. Essays (in translation) by Charles Baudelaire... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets by David Meltzer Publisher Comments Interviews. SAN FRANCSCO BEAT: TALKING WITH THE POETS is an essential archive of the Bear Generation, as rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was chaged forever by a handful of people who refused an... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour by Bill Morgan Publisher Comments A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote "Howl;" Gary Snyder’s zen cottage in Berkeley; the ghostly railroad yards where Kerouac and -Cassady toiled; the pads where Jack... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fantasies of the Master Race : Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians, Expanded ((Rev)98 Edition) by Ward Churchill Publisher Comments Cultural Studies/ Native American Studies. In this volume of incisive essays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature and film, delineating a history of cultural propaganda that has served to support the continued... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Impossible by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century by Guillerm Gomez Pena Publisher Comments Poetry. Latin American Studies. THE NEW WORLD BORDER is a new collection of essays, poems, and performance text through which Gomez-Pena muses on matters of race, nationality, language, and identity. The book is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Postcards from the Underground: Portraits of the Beat Era by Larry Keenan Publisher Comments In 1965, Larry Keenan spent over a year photographing the Beats—in their homes and with their families and friends. His portraits constitute a unique chronology and reportage of this era, and many of these photos have since become iconic images... (read more) Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology by Max Blechman Publisher Comments Cultural Writing.REVOLUTIONARY ROMANTICISM: A DRUNKEN BOAT ANTHOLOGY draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revoltutionaries, the... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Always Astonished by Fernando Pessoa Publisher Comments “After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa’s work is never-ending,” writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City by Bill Morgan Publisher Comments Set off on the eternal trail of the Beat experience in the city that inspired many of Jack Kerouac's best-loved novels including On the Road, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, and Desolation Angels. This is the ultimate guide to Kerouac's New... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Delirium: An Interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud by Jeremy Reed Publisher Comments Delirium, an intuitive and original interpretation of the poet Arthur Rimbaud’s life and genius, brings into close focus the crucial period of 1873, when Rimbaud left school and the provinces and lived his “season in hell.” Jeremy Reed... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays 1982-1999 by Ammiel Alcalay Publisher Comments Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice. "An outstanding anthology of essays surveying the complexities of Mediterranean cultures; the diverse, changing space of the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa—areas of diasporas... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 by C Sawyer Laucanno Publisher Comments Between 1944 and 1960, a second wave of expatriate American writers took up residence in Paris, some seeking the exiting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris has offered earlier generations, some escaping from racist and materialistic... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $0.98 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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