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Pocket Poets #28: Scattered Poems
Pocket Poets #28: Scattered Poems
by Jack Kerouac
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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)

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The Tears of Eros
The Tears of Eros
by Georges Bataille
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Nonfiction. THE TEARS OF EROS is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Gilles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton,... (read more)

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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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"This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history. From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Even though some say that... (read more)

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The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems from Old India
The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems from Old India
by Andrew Schelling
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Poetry. "THE CANE GROVES is a brilliant selection of refined, provocative, shivery-lovely poems. It has a generous bibliography and an astute introduction that illuminates both poetics and scholarship with its insights into the wealth of nature imagery... (read more)

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by Michael Parenti
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Blackshirts and Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti... (read more)

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Pocket Poets Series #0008: Gasoline
Pocket Poets Series #0008: Gasoline
by Gregory Corso
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Poetry. "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with corso's individual (therefore universal) desire" -Allen... (read more)

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Entering Fire
Entering Fire
by Rikki Ducornet
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"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)

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Poem of the Deep Song
Poem of the Deep Song
by Federico 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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Shadows of Berlin: The Berlin Stories of Dovid Bergelson
Shadows of Berlin: The Berlin Stories of Dovid Bergelson
by Dovid Bergelson
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Shadows of Berlin is, in part, a bleak chronicle of life in Europe growing ever more hostile at the edge of World War II, part mythic parable. Bergelson’s stories—passionate, honest, dark and often hilarious—hint at the possibility of... (read more)

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Stories of Mr. Keuner
Stories of Mr. Keuner
by Bertolt Brecht
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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)

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Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology
Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology
by Max Blechman
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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)

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Pocket Poets Series #0001: Pictures of the Gone World
Pocket Poets Series #0001: Pictures of the Gone World
by Lawrence 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
Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes
by Jack Kerouac
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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)

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Impossible (91 Edition)
Impossible (91 Edition)
by Bataille
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In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a... (read more)

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The Oblivion Seekers: And Other Writings
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... (read more)

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Twenty Prose Poems
Twenty Prose Poems
by Charles Baudelaire
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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)

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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
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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Fiction. Cultural Writing. Translation. Translated from the French by Malcolm Imrie, interviews by Gerard Berreby in collaboration with Giulio Minghini and Chantal Osterreicher. Ralph Rumneyhas been in constant flight from the wreckage f postwar Europe... (read more)

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History as Mystery
History as Mystery
by Michael Parenti
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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)

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A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
by Ward Churchill
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Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America. Here, he explores the history of holocaust and denial in this hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and... (read more)

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The Celibacy Club
The Celibacy Club
by Janice Eidus
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"Janice Eidus has won the O. Henry Prize twice, and The Celibacy Club helps demonstrate why. Her stories are, by turn, erotic, bawdy, and hilarious. Great reading for the plane, bus, Max, or bathtub."... (read more)

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