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by Charles Noble  Publisher Comments Each of the poems in Noble's latest collection is seventeen syllables, a kind of haiku. Nobel explains that these "short hairs," or pseudo haikus, are not in fact traditional haikus. Rather he prefers to call them logopoeic haikus, even though this is a... (read more)  List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Nick Mamatas 
Publisher Comments The year is nineteen-sixty-something, and after endless millennia of watery sleep, the stars are finally right. Old R'lyeh rises out of the Pacific, ready to cast its damned shadow over the primitive human world. The first to see its peaks: an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Keith Botsford Publisher Comments "One of the more attractive oddities of the United State is that our minorities are so numerous, so huge. A minority of millions is not at all unusual. But there are in fact millions of literate Americans in a state of separation from others of their... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia Synopsis "Dissent from the Homeland" begins a new evaluation of how Americans think about September 11, 2001. In this special issue well-known writers and scholars from across the humanities and social sciences take a critical look at US domestic and foreign... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Plimpton Publisher Comments The latest issue of the magazine highlights the art of biography, in interviews with esteemed biographers Robert Caro, David McCullough, and Author Schlesinger, Jr. For the magazine's famous Writers-at-Work series, three of the most prominent... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Maziar Publisher Comments 'What is this book about' blurb: A collaboration by Paul G. Maziar and Maust Experimental, sincere and mercurial memoir, prose and poetry-married with equally sincere, gorgeous, deconstructed yet meticulous, typography and photo-driven design. Each facet... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Jack Publisher Comments Simon Gray on smoking, absent friends, getting old, smoking, and why Gary Cooper walked the way he did. Lynn Barker on the con man who seduced her, and then her parents. Kathryn Chetkovich on living with envy, bred by a partner who is more successful... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Frank Publisher Comments The Baffler is back, now fully redesigned, with an eclectic collection of essays, and fiction from Mahmoud Darwish and Eileen Myles amongst others.... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Fasanaro Publisher Comments Collection of short poems about author's experience in Vietnam.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Benjamin Zephaniah Publisher Comments Benjamin Zephaniah dedicated this collection of 22 new poems to "the caring, dedicated young vegans of the world...who will not stand for any exploitation whatever the species." Filled with the unique "radical rapper" poems that Zephaniah is famous for... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosemarie London Publisher Comments Meet Natasha, Anna and Mona, their inarticulate longings, their persistent humor in the face of sad relationships and their tendency toward slightly fraudulent good manners. In this collection of new and selected stories, RoseMarie London unveils in... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Raphael Rubenstein Publisher Comments This book is a collection of poems which are lucid, compelling, and endowed with astonishing authority.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lewis Grassi Gibbon Publisher Comments Far removed from the recognisable Scottish and rural themes of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's best known works, Persisan Dawn, Egyptian Nights, (first published in the 1930s), gives full reign to Gibbon's fascination with the fantastic and exotic following his... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $2.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Chasman Publisher Comments "In the beginning, Bob didn't plan to start a religion, it just happened." So begins the heroic journey of Bob, who on his fifieth birthday, finds himself wifeless, childless, and conversing with his dog. Soon God will talk to Bob, too. He will order... (read more) Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ben Greenman Publisher Comments The original McSweeney's Superbad comprised more than two dozen pieces in various genres from serious fiction to post-modern satire to lyric. As Susan Minot put it, Greenman's mind may contain "a Russian short story writer, a slap-stick gag writer, an... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Longhi Publisher Comments "Anyone who's an admirer of Richard Brautigan's unclassifiable Trout Fishing in Americawill be drawn to the eccentric, wandering vision of Longhi's prose."-San Francisco Bay Guardian "Longhi's prose is carefully measured, engaging, laid-back."-Guardian... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Dery Publisher Comments Flame Wars, in comp-slang, are vitriolic on-line exchanges. Often they are conducted publicly, in discussion groups clustered under thematic headings on electronic bulletin boards. Like public bathroom graffiti, their authors are sometimes anonymous... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Samuel R. Delany Publisher Comments Phallos is the tale of a tale. Neoptolomus pursues mystic knowledge through the Mediterranean world in the time of Emperor Hadrian. From Egypt to Syracuse, from Athens to Byzantium and further, filled with wit and eruditon — and deeply homoerotic... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rusty Barnes Review "Barnes's writing shows a true understanding of the human condition." Boston Area Small Press and Poetry... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Curcio Publisher Comments Religions. Philosophies. Advertising campaigns. Gurus. Prozac. All of these drugs are sold as answers to our deepest questions: Why are we here? What truly has meaning? For a group of young adults desperately searching for meaning in the bleak... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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