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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
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"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)
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
by Charles Bukowski
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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)
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
by Charles Bukowski
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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)
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Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille
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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)
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Pocket Poets #28: Scattered Poems
by Jack Kerouac
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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 VISIONS OF... ( read more)
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The Yage Letters
by William Burroughs
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The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix."In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York... ( read more)
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Reality Sandwiches, 1953-1960 (Pocket Poets Series, No. 18)
by Allen Ginsberg
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"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)
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Pocket Poets #0048: Pomes All Sizes
by Jack Kerouac
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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)
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Pocket Poets Series #14: Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960
by Allen Ginsberg
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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)
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San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets
by David Meltzer
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San Francisco Beatis an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America-somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s-was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise,... ( read more)
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First Third and Other Writings
by Neal Cassady
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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)
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The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary
by Rebecca Brown
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The nameless narrator of The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary lives in her studio apartment with a pack of Doberman pinchers. The dogs, led by the cruel, charismatic bitch named Miss Dog, alternate between being brutal attack animals and loyal companions, being... ( read more)
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Essential Neruda : Selected Poems (04 Edition)
by Pablo Neruda
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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)
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Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda
by Luis Cernuda
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The Prose and Poems of Luis Cernuda.... ( 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
by Ralph Rumney
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Ralph Rumney has been in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths with every avant-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Rumney's traveling companions-Guy Debord... ( read more)
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Love Poems from Spain and Spanish America
by Perry Higman
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The nearly seventy poems in this bilingual anthology are concerned with many kinds of love: erotic love, sublime love, filial love, maternal love, and love between brother and sister. They also explore feelings of friendship, solidarity, and the... ( read more)
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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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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
by Paul Bowles
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"Paul Bowles, author of the magisterial novel The Sheltering Sky, was also
a master of the short story. This book, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard,
demonstrates that fact succinctly, using hashish as a means of delivering
bizarre, dreamlike tales of... ( read more)
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Joe's Word: An Echo Park Novel
by Elizabeth Stromme
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This noir-style novel vividly brings to life an embattled community of mostly have-nots who attempt to survive city corruption, police harassment, and the daily grind with humor and sheer grit.... ( read more)
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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
by Lawren 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 an... ( read more)
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