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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments Novel, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Bataille's scandalous STORY OF THE EYE, written under the pseudonym Lord Auch, centers around the exploits of a young couple exploring the utmost boundaries of the sacred and profane. This hallucinatory melding... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 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) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories (83 Edition) by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments Fiction. These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.00 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ellen Ullman Publisher Comments A candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs a computer consulting business out of her live-work loft in San Francisco's multimedia gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like to give in... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aureole by Carole Maso Publisher Comments Two women leaf through a book of French slang, with its delicate and delicious mixing of food and sex. A man and a woman sit in a Parisian dive, caressing each other’s hands. Two lovers take late-night refuge in a beach cabana, their lovemaking... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Entering Fire by Rikki Ducornet 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."... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Poem of the Deep Song by Federico 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories of MR. Keuner (01 Edition) by Bertolt Brecht Publisher Comments Fiction. Politics. Translated by Martin Chalmers. STORIES OF MR. KEUNER gathers Bertolt Brecht's fictionalized comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. Written from the late 1920s till the late 1950s, STORIES OF MR. KEUNER is the precipitate of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #28: Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments Poetry. Jack Kerouac does not always receive credit as one of the great American poets of the twentieth-century, but SCATTERED POEMS helps show the great range he possessed across genres. This book includes "Pull My Daisy," written with Allen Ginsberg... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology by Max Blechman Publisher Comments Cultural Writing.REVOLUTIONARY ROMANTICISM: A DRUNKEN BOAT ANTHOLOGY draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revoltutionaries, the... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets Series #0001: Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Publisher Comments 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) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments Poetry. Here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs from God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations. Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Always Astonished by Fernando Pessoa 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... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $9.50 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... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History as Mystery by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Poems from Spain and Spanish America by Perry Higman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics & Culture by James Brook Publisher Comments Nonfiction. " This book celebrates the fact that we live in the most glorious of all human creations, a city, with living streets, more like ancient Athens or Samarkhand or Calcutta than like the aggregate office block/parking lot/shopping malls that... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets by David Meltzer Publisher Comments Interviews. SAN FRANCSCO BEAT: TALKING WITH THE POETS is an essential archive of the Bear Generation, as rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was chaged forever by a handful of people who refused an... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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