Anthologies
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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 his...
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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, Labi's poetry is haunted by memories of torture and prisons and bears witness to his...
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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. <P>"From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "<BR> "Even though...
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City of Memory and Other Poems (97 Edition)
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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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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Roman Poems : Pocket Poets #41 (86 Edition)
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...
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Another City: Writing from Los Angeles
by David L Ulin Publisher Comments 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 entertainment industry and earthquakes, riots and racism...
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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....
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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 each of...
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Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing
by Ammiel 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 with cultural...
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Sarajevo Blues
by Semezd 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 the...
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Listen : Early Poems, 1913-1918 (91 Edition)
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's raspy rebus-like...
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Anthology of Black Humor
by Andre Breton Publisher Comments This is the first publication in English of the resplendent 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. The entries...
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Points of Departure: New Stories from Mexico
by Monica Lavin Publisher Comments These seventeen stories represent the best of the generation of Mexican writers born in the 50s and 60s. Magical realism and exoticism are nowhere to be found in this collection of sophisticated, very contemporary stories. Rather, the surreal...
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The Monstrous and the Marvelous
by Rikki Ducornet Publisher Comments 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 surveys the monstrous and...
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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...
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Longing: Selected Poems
by Jaime Gil De Biedma Publisher Comments The poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma, the most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war, is finally, after years of censorship under Generalissimo Franco, reaching a huge audience in Spain. His poems capture the mood of post-civil war Spain...
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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 Garca Lorca or...
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Critical Condition: Women on the Edge of Violence
by Amy Scholder Publisher Comments While Aileen Wuornos, the alleged "female serial killer" who insists she killed in self-defense, sits on death row, Hollywood filmmakers appropriate her story. Meanwhile, in our perverse justice system the sexual assaults and murders of forty-five women...
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Horses in the Air and Other Poems
by Jorge Guillen Publisher Comments Winner of the 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translati+C100on Award. A major Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, Jorge Guilln's luminous poetry, marked by nobility of mind, balance, and clarity of vision, deserves to be more widely known to readers of...
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