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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg  
Powells.com 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." Chris F., Powells.com...
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Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of...
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Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes
by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier...
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Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond
by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments A penetrating analysis of the hidden political, economic, and religious agendas behind the September 11 attacks and the war, with an emphasis on Afghanistan's history and the U.S.-led globalization process that has impoverished and angered much of the...
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Pocket Poets #51: Scripture of the Golden Eternity
by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe....
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
by Ellen Ullman
Publisher Comments A candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs a computer consulting business out of her live-work loft in San Francisco's multimedia gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like to give in...
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Shock Treatment
by Karen Finley Publisher Comments Shock Treatment includes Karen Finley's most provocative and acclaimed performance monologues, essays, and poems, with "The Constant State of Desire,""We Keep Our Victims Ready,""It's Only Art,"and "The Black Sheep."Excoriating misogyny, homophobia...
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Stories of Mr. Keuner
by Bertolt Brecht
Publisher Comments Bertolt Brecht's "Stories of Mr. Keuner" is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. From 1930 til his death in 1956, Brecht penned these ironic portraits of his times as he was "changing countries more often...
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Pocket Poets #28: Scattered Poems
by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy," and American haiku. "HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH" before we all go to Heaven...
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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. <P>Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six...
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Pocket Poets Series #14: Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960
by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, "in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . ." <P> In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body...
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The Beggar's Knife
by Rodrigo Rey Rosa Publisher Comments From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories-at once brutal and intensely lyrical-are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their...
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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...
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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
by Paul Bowles
Powells.com Staff Pick "Paul Bowles, author of the magisterial novel The Sheltering Sky, was also a master of the short story. This book, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, demonstrates that fact succinctly, using hashish as a means of delivering bizarre, dreamlike tales of...
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City of Memory: And Other Poems
by Jose Emilio Pacheco Publisher Comments The leading poet of his generation, Jos 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. The first, "City...
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Notes on Thought and Vision
by H D Publisher Comments Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and the creative process; and a study of gender differences...
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Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building
by Terry Wolverton Publisher Comments In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian...
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Motel Chronicles
by Sam Shepard
Publisher Comments Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural...
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Poem of the Deep Song
by F 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...
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The Marx Family Saga
by Juan Goytisolo
Publisher Comments Surreal fiction from Juan Goytisolo, Spain's greatest living writer. A resurrected Karl and Jenny Marx sitting on their sofa in Hampstead watching a television documentary about the landing of Albanian refugees on a private Italian beach, flourishing...
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