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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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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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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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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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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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Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19)
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...
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Concerning the Angels (95 Edition)
by Rafael Alberti Publisher Comments First published in Spain in the summer of 1929, Concerning the Angels (Sobre los angeles) is the great Spanish poet Rafael Alberti's masterpiece, on a par with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Pablo Neruda's Residencia en la tierra, and Federico Garcia Lorca'...
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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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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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Pocket Poets #41: Roman Poems
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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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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Pocket Poets Series, #30: Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971
by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments "National Book Award for Poetry, 1973"<BR> Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person...
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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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Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems : a Book of Lives (99 Edition)
by Artemio Rodriguez Publisher Comments The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular lotera images. They were modern adaptations, made with painstaking detail (think of a turn-of-the-millenium, wired...
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Pocket Poets #57: The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamu Daaood
by Kamau Daaood
Powells.com Staff Pick "Jazz poetry at its best, Kamau Daaood's The Language of Saxophones is vibrant and rhythmic, relentlessly grappling with the myriad realities of life in today's world. This poetry is music for the soul." Chris F., Powells.com...
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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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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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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...
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Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
by Diane Di Prima
Powells.com Staff Pick "Diane di Prima is one of the great hidden treasures of the Beat movement. Her poems, flavored by shamanism, Tibetan Buddhism, and a generous dash of revolutionary idealism, are a joy to read — again and again." Chris F., Powells.com...
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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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