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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg 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."... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Oblivion Seekers: And Other Writings 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. She... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Reclaiming San Francisco (98 Edition) by James Brook Publisher Comments Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control."The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Against Empire by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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The Yage Letters by William Burroughs Publisher Comments The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix."In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Cold of the Malecon: And Other Stories by Antonio Jose Ponte Publisher Comments Departing from both the utopian-political and the romantic-baroque styles of past Cuban literature, Ponte deftly sketches a picture of a contemporary Cuba that is very different from the stereotype of Caribbean life, full of music and dance and colorful... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski 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."... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Youth by Rebecca Brown Staff Pick Continuing with the intimate first person narrator who whispers taut, iambic sentences in our ears, Rebecca Brown's latest work is The End of Youth. With wit and care, the thirteen linked stories show us that coming of age moments happen at any age.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems 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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht Publisher Comments Bertolt Brecht's Stories of Mr. Keuneris 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... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History as Mystery by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Volcan: Poems from Central America: A Bilingual Anthology by Alejandro Murguia Publisher Comments A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt" describes not only Central America in the 1980s but-in the conception of its editors-this anthology of contraband poetry. The poems themselves were often copied by hand and smuggled onto Mexico, from Honduras, El... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gypsy Cante: Deep Song of the Caves by Will Kirkland Publisher Comments Over centuries, Andalusian Gypsies developed cante jondo, or deep song, which grew from the experience of exile and marginalization. Although flamenco music enjoys wide popularity today, the words of the songs are often lost in the passion of the... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Amazon Dream by Roberta Allen Publisher Comments At last, an alternative to the Harrison Ford-style travel adventure! Amazon Dream is the real story of a woman's journey into the Peruvian Amazon, a mysteriously beautiful region of the world that is also the nexus of calamitous ecological realities... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard by Paul Bowles 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... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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