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by Janice Eidus  Publisher Comments Babette Bliss, the decidedly modern heroine of this comical novel, suffers from an unsettling problem: ambivalence. She has taken leave from her job with an avant-garde New York theater to face her dilemmas concerning her marriage, career, and soul... (read more)  List Price $9.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Leslie Dick Publisher Comments Tracy, who compulsively repeats familiar feminine tragedies, moves from one disastrous love affair to the next, almost oblivious to the cities in which she finds herself-London, Berlin, Ankara, New York-and even to the objects of her passion. Without... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by C Sawyer Laucanno Publisher Comments Between 1944 and 1960, a second wave of expatriate American writers took up residence in Paris, some seeking the exiting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris has offered earlier generations, some escaping from racist and materialistic aspects... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg 
Publisher Comments Plutonian Ode: Titlepoem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground millionaire Pluto Lord of Death, jack in the gnostic box of... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $2.40 (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) Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William S Burroughs Publisher Comments Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Reed Publisher Comments Delirium, an intuitive and original interpretation of the poet Arthur Rimbaud's life and genius, brings into close focus the crucial period of 1873, when Rimbaud left school and the provinces and lived his "season in hell." Jeremy Reed brings his own... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Hammond Publisher Comments During the early days of the Second World War, the Cataln painter Joan Mir created a startling series of twenty-three gouaches, his Constellations, works redolent with the nightmare of contemporary events. In 1958 the French poet Andr Breton composed his... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean-Patrick Manchette Publisher Comments Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game-so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession! But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans. Once again, the gunman... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Swartz Publisher Comments Instant Karma is a novel in the form of a diary written by an overzealous reader who daily browses the stacks of the Chicago Public Library in search of connections between obscure volumes, scrupulously footnoting his research, which seems to argue for... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ammiel Alcalay Publisher Comments Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice. "An outstanding anthology of essays surveying the complexities of Mediterranean cultures; the diverse, changing space of the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa-areas of diasporas... (read more) List Price $17.95 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 . . ." In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Wolverton Publisher Comments In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David L Ulin Publisher Comments Stories, chronicles, and poems by both well-established and up-and-coming young writers about how it was to come to LA or what it was like to grow up there, about the ocean and the desert, the entertainment industry and earthquakes, riots and racism... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Kerouac
Powells.com Staff Pick "Jack Kerouac needs no introduction. Book of Dreams is his journal of his dream life, and it is as wild and magical as any of his fiction." Chris F., Powells.com... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (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 Juan Felipe Herrera Publisher Comments The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular lotera images. They were modern adaptations, made with painstaking detail (think of a turn-of-the-millenium, wired... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments "Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy."Many of Ginsberg's most famous poems. Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments Planet News collecting seven years'Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation and messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee and Ganges till... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $6.00 (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 $4.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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