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The Oblivion Seekers: And Other Writings
by Isabelle Eberhardt
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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)
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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
by Nawal Saadawi
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"Memoirs of a Woman Doctor is a feminist masterpiece. Set in Egypt, El Saadawi's slim novel is the story of a woman who rebels against all of the traditions of her culture. It's spare and elegant, and a marvelous read."... ( read more)
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Pocket Poets #51: Scripture of the Golden Eternity
by Jack Kerouac
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These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.... ( read more)
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Tales from the Cuban Empire
by Antonio Jose Ponte
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In the manner of fabled storytellers, Ponte creates a vivid picture of contemporary Cuba-its real and imagined place in the world-through stories told by a foreign exchange physics student, urban planners who discover an underground metropolis in their... ( read more)
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In the Cold of the Malecon: And Other Stories
by Antonio Jose Ponte
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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)
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Artaud Anthology
by Antonin Artaud
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"I am the man,"wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self."Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman.... ( 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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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
by Pablo Neruda
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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)
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
by Charles Bukowski
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"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)
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The End of Youth
by Rebecca Brown
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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)
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Stories of Mr. Keuner
by Bertolt Brecht
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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)
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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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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 (77 Edition)
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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