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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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Essential Neruda : Selected Poems (04 Edition)
by Pablo Neruda Publisher Comments This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's...
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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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Oblivion Seekers (75 Edition)
by Isabelle Eberhardt Publisher Comments Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman-adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult. Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa...
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City of God (94 Edition)
by Gil Cuadros Publisher Comments Gil Cuadros published stories and poems in Indivisible, High Risk 2, and Blood Whispers. His work is also on the compact disc, Verdict and the Violence: Poet's Response to the LA Uprising. He was awarded the 1991 Brody Literature Fellowship, and was one...
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
by Charles Bukowski 
Powells.com Staff Pick "Bukowski. You either love him or hate him. This is one of his best collections of short stories — raunchy, sodden, and bloated. Enjoy." Chris F., Powells.com...
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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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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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The Back Room
by Carmen Martin Gaite Publisher Comments Chapter One THE BAREFOOT MAN ... AND YET I'D swear that the position was the same-I think I've always slept this way, with my right arm underneath the pillow and my body turned slightly over onto that side, my feet searching for the place where the sheet...
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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...
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Entering Fire
by Rikki Ducornet
Powells.com Staff Pick "Rikki Ducornet's Entering Fire is a surreal, comic masterpiece, bubbling over with imaginative detail and hallucinatory intensity. Highly readable, highly provocative, and highly recommended." Chris F., Powells.com...
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Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
by Michelle Cliff Publisher Comments In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her...
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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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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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The Other World: Stories
by John Wynne Publisher Comments Peopled with prostitutes, circus performers, sociopaths, and god-fearing families, these stories have a hallucinatory edge, making the everyday seem like another world. John Wynne is the author of Crime Wave, a novel, and The Sightings, a chapbook. His...
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Always Astonished : Selected Prose (88 Edition)
by Fernando Pessao 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 by) his heteronyms-...
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Hectic Ethics: Stories
by Francisco Hinojosa Publisher Comments Unlike many Latin American writers whose work has been published in the United States, Francisco Hinojosa does not rely on magical realism, exotic recipes or cultural nostalgia. Rather, his stories convey a mercilessly sardonic view of family and society,...
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State of Siege
by Juan Goytisolo Publisher Comments A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where...
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Danger & Beauty
by Jessica Hagedorn Publisher Comments Fiction and poetry that draw from the beats of Latin soul and free jazz, rich evocations of the author's ancestral roots. Hagedorn muses about love and sex, mysticism and drugs, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart — and...
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Kicking
by Leslie Dick Publisher Comments Set in the London and New York underground culture's of the 70s and 80s, Kicking tracks the adventures of a group of close friends through the ambiguous pleasures and dangers of those years. Connie West's attachment to Mikey Stour begins one Sunday...
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