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by Allen Ginsberg  
Powells.com 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." Chris F., Powells.com... (read more)  List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $6.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments 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) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bertolt Brecht
Publisher Comments Bertolt Brecht's "Stories of Mr. Keuner" is 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 $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Neal Cassady Publisher Comments Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments America Besiegeddeals with the underlying forces within U.S. society that deeply affect our lives. Showing how we are being misled and harmed by those who profess to have our interests at heart, Michael Parenti writes: "We are indeed a nation besieged... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, "in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . ." <P> In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rodrigo Rey Rosa Publisher Comments From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories-at once brutal and intensely lyrical-are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments A penetrating analysis of the hidden political, economic, and religious agendas behind the September 11 attacks and the war, with an emphasis on Afghanistan's history and the U.S.-led globalization process that has impoverished and angered much of the... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments 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 France where... (read more) Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Finley Publisher Comments Shock Treatment includes Karen Finley's most provocative and acclaimed performance monologues, essays, and poems, with "The Constant State of Desire,""We Keep Our Victims Ready,""It's Only Art,"and "The Black Sheep."Excoriating misogyny, homophobia... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments Superpatriots, writes Michael Parenti, are those people who place national pride and American supremacy above every other public consideration, those who follow leaders uncritically, especially in their war policies abroad. Superpatriotismis the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments "National Book Award for Poetry, 1973"<BR> Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) check for new and sale copies
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