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History As Mystery (99 Edition)
by Michael Parenti
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Essays on how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work. "Michael Parenti, always... ( read more)
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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
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"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)
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First Third and Other Writings
by Neal Cassady
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Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of... ( read more)
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Dirty Truths
by Michael Parenti
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This eye-opening and entertaining collection of essays investigates media and culture, conspiracy and state power, ideology and political consciousness. Parenti ranges over such crucial issues as free speech, the rise of neofascism, the relationship... ( read more)
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
by Charles Bukowski
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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... ( read more)
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The Beggar's Knife
by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
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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... ( read more)
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Poem of the Deep Song
by F Garcia Lorca
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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)
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Pocket Poets #28: Scattered Poems
by Jack Kerouac
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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 VISIONS OF... ( read more)
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Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda
by Luis Cernuda
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The Prose and Poems of Luis Cernuda.... ( read more)
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The Marx Family Saga
by Juan Goytisolo
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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... ( read more)
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The Other World: Stories
by John Wynne
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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... ( read more)
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Longing: Selected Poems
by Jaime Gil De Biedma
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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... ( read more)
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Pocket Poets Series #0001: Pictures of the Gone World
by Lawren Ferlinghetti
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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)
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Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes
by Jack Kerouac
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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... ( read more)
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State of Siege
by Juan Goytisolo
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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... ( read more)
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Hectic Ethics: Stories
by Francisco Hinojosa
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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,... ( read more)
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Danger & Beauty
by Jessica Hagedorn
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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... ( read more)
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Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille
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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... ( read more)
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Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time #02: The Consul: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time, Volume II
by Ralph Rumney
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Ralph Rumney has been in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths with every avant-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Rumney's traveling companions-Guy Debord... ( read more)
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Love Poems from Spain and Spanish America
by Perry Higman
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The nearly seventy poems in this bilingual anthology are concerned with many kinds of love: erotic love, sublime love, filial love, maternal love, and love between brother and sister. They also explore feelings of friendship, solidarity, and the... ( read more)
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