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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Staff Pick "Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today."... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Aureole by Carole Maso Publisher Comments Two women leaf through a book of French slang, with its delicate and delicious mixing of food and sex. A man and a woman sit in a Parisian dive, caressing each other’s hands. Two lovers take late-night refuge in a beach cabana, their lovemaking... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lunch Poems (64 Edition) by Frank O'hara Publisher Comments Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #28: Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments Poetry. Jack Kerouac does not always receive credit as one of the great American poets of the twentieth-century, but SCATTERED POEMS helps show the great range he possessed across genres. This book includes "Pull My Daisy," written with Allen Ginsberg... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dawn of the Senses (95 Edition) by Alberto Blanco Publisher Comments Poetry. "The meticulous and loving catalog of moments, animals, plants, beings, suns, and nocturnal revelations that this poetry offers us constitutes - in my way of thinking - a terrible oracle, and a last shout of hope. To say it in a simpler, more... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments Poetry. Here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs from God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations. Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gasoline, the Vestal Lady on Brattle (58 Edition) by Gregory Corso Publisher Comments Poetry. "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with corso's individual (therefore universal) desire" -Allen... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 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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Poem of the Deep Song by Federico Garcia Lorca Publisher Comments The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems of Arab Andalusia (89 Edition) by Cola (translator) Franzen Publisher Comments These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face." Spanish... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - 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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Pocket Poets Series #55: Front Lines: Selected Poems by Jack Hirschman Staff Pick "Poet-warrior Jack Hirschman's is a poetry of witness. Veteran communist and word crafter, Hirschman finds beauty in the struggles of ordinary people to better their lives."... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets Series #0035: Mind Breaths: Poems, 1972-1977 by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets Series #0001: Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Publisher Comments Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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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Paroles : Selected Poems (58 Edition) by Jacques Prevert Publisher Comments In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Artaud Anthology by Antonin Artaud Publisher Comments “I am the man,” wrote Artaud, “who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - 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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Pocket Poets #56: Nine Alexandrias by Semezd Mehmedinovic Publisher Comments Translated from the Bosnian with an introduction by Ammiel Alcalay Following his depiction of Bosnia under siege in the much celebrated Sarajevo Blues, Semezdin Mehmedinovic´ now explores the vast space of his new continent. Mostly written in response... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - 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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