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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 $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mygale by Thierry Jonquet Publisher Comments Mygale[MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . . Richard Lafargue, a well-known plastic surgeon, pursues and captures Vincent Moreau, who raped Lafargue's daughter and left her hopelessly mad in an asylum. Lafargue is determined to exact... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Publisher Comments "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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pocket Poets #51: Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments 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) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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M'Hashish by Mohammed Mrabet Publisher Comments “Ah,” said Hassan, “I don’t believe in the world. There’s another world where life is different." These are stories of that world. The word m’hashish (equivalent in Moghrebi of “behashished” or “full... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 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: $5.95 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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Shadows of Berlin: The Berlin Stories of Dovid Bergelson by Dovid Bergelson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.50 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 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: $4.50 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments 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) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 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: $6.95 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: $6.50 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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State of Siege by Juan Goytisolo Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Story of the Eye (77 Edition) 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: $6.00 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: $5.95 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: $5.50 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 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) List Price $12.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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