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Samuel R. Delany – Big Joe
$20.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print Add to cartAn uproarious and scandalous Southern picaresque by the master Samuel R. Delany. A chance encounter with two older fellows at the movie theater has the young vagabond Ligie on his […]
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Kathryn Harrison – Poison
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrancisca de Luarca, the daughter of a silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams – dreams in which the work of her father’s silkworms is woven into robes for […]
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Denis Johnson – Angels (1st Edition)
$80.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson’s novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays—a runaway wife toting along two kids—and Bill Houston—ex-Navy man, ex-husband, ex-con—on a [...]
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Sam Greenlee – Blues For An African Princess
$75.00 | New Arrivals, Print, Used Items, Zine Add to cartEarly poetry chapbook by the author of The Spook Who Sat By The Door. Third World Press, 1971 Staplebound Chapbook, 1st edition/1st printing. Noticeable rubbing and discoloration to both wraps. [...]
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Heiko Julien – I Am Ready To Die A Violent Death
$30.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHeiko Julien’s cutting edge hybrid prose/poetry debut. CCM, 2013 Softcover Edition. Light general wear
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C.A Conrad – The Book Of Frank
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPraised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surreal portrait,” The Book of Frank is also, in the words of poet-critic Alan Gilbert, a “candid portrayal of human cruelty and […]
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Arthur Rimbaud – The Spiritual Hunt
$20.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print Add to cartA long lost poem purportedly by Rimbaud is finally made available in English. Referenced only in a few letters of Paul Verlaine, The Spiritual Hunt is Arthur Rimbaud’s forgotten masterwork, [...]
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A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn anthology of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics. Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten are internationally recognized poet/critics. Together they edited the highly influential [...]
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Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 4: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRestoration and Reform, 1872-1905, is the fourth and final volume in a monumental new series that traces kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The twelve [...]
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Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartYou’ve met the characters in these stories before. We meet them in folktales from all around the world. There is the simple, wise old man who understands far more than […]
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Régis Bonvicino – Sky-Eclipse: Selected Poems
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPlayful and depth-filled poetry by the Brazilian luminary. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.
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Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis gorgeous hardback edition brings the writing of Lafcadio Hearn to life. Ranging from the legends of the West Indies to the mysteries of the Orient, Lafcadio Hearn blurs the […]
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James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a [...]
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James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartNo James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to […]
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David Goodis – Black Friday
$4.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the author of Dark Passage and Shoot the Piano Player, a thriller about the dark ethics of crime, and the man unlucky enough to violate them. With its chilling […]
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Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRegarded as one of Europe’s great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable ear for dialogue and a […]
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Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Rain Mirror”, writes poet Michael McClure, “is my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, ‘Crisis Blossom’ and ‘Haiku Edge’ which are [...]
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Sophocles – Oedipus at Kolonos: A New Translation
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAmong the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus at Kolonos is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a […]
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Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartLayering joy and urgent defiance―against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone―Trethewey’s work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. [...]
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Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank-robber, [...]
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Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe rhetorically gorgeous essay-stories of Kenneth Burke were unlike any other fiction of the 1920s. Here & Elsewhere gathers, for the first time, all of Burke’s fiction: 23 short stories [...]
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Zaza Burchuladze – Adibas
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWar is raging in Georgia, Russian fighter planes are thundering overhead, and yet, for some, the falling bombs cause no more impact than the slight ripple moving through the purified […]
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Vladislav Otroshenko – Addendum to a Photo Album
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Addendum to a Photo Album” is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife [...]
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Dan Fante – 86’d: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads [...]
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Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartLike an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first [...]
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Frank Stanford – What About This
$50.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartMichael Ondaatje writes of this volume: “Frank Stanford died in 1978, but his writing has been almost a secret or an unknown force in American Poetry. So it is wondrous […]
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Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
$65.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartTHE SINGING KNIVES, originally published in 1971 by Broughton’s Mill Mountain Press, is Frank Sanford’s first collection of poetry. Reprinted by his own press, Lost Roads Publisher, [...]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini’s imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. [...]
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Ruggero Vasari – Raun
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRaun, certainly one of the great works of Futurist drama, if not the greatest, was written by Ruggero Vasari from 1926 to 1927 before being published in 1932. Here, presented […]
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Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSelf-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation [...]
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Rainer J. Hanshe – Dionysos Speed
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAs the digitization of every aspect of existence grows more pervasive and absolute, from the monitoring of thought to the tracking even of genitals, the central nervous system of the […]
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Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten in his Bastille cell in the years between 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, this is the first English translation of Marquis de Sade’s collection of short works, Stories, […]
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Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChildren of the New Flesh is a wide-ranging compendium of reflections on the enduring impact of David Cronenberg, one of the most significant filmmakers of all time. Focusing on a […]
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Gerhard Roth – The Will to Sickness
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGerhard Roth burst on the German-speaking scene in the early 1970s with three fiercely experimental novels, among them our present DER WILLE ZUR KRANKHEIT (1973). It is here that Roth […]
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Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNorma Cole has combed through books, little magazines, and correspondence to gather an exciting body of writing by our French contemporaries. There are letters, poems, interviews, critical [...]
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Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartComposed of poems, prose segments, and visual pieces, this remarkable first book is both formal and colloquial, fluid and hard-edge, with the diction riffing between Biblical and Dylanesque. A [...]
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Brendan Connell – Cannibals of West Papua
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFew indeed have penetrated the remote areas of West Papua, a land abounding in ritual and magic. A breviary of anthropophagy and the supernatural, Cannibals of West Papua recounts the […]
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Jean Grosjean – An Earth of Time
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten while Jean Grosjean was a prisoner in the Second World War, Terre du temps, his first book, was published by Gallimard in 1946 and attracted a great deal of […]
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Habib Tengour – Crossings
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBeginning with the astonishing prologue poem, “Conversation with Mohammed Dib,” followed by four long, spectacular poems, each a small book in itself, Habib Tengour’s Crossings takes us through [...]
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Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“About Champollion I knew: that he did not go to Egypt with Napoleon, that he never saw the actual Rosetta stone, only more or less bad copies, that he suffered […]
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Bénédicte Vilgrain – A Tibetan Grammar
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“For the past several years, Vilgrain has been working on an open-ended project titled A Tibetan Grammar, which explores language from an almost architectural perspective, using the [...]
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Bernardo Couto Castillo – Asphodels
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Greek mythology, the asphodel is a flower associated with death; the souls of ordinary mortals are sent to the Asphodel Meadows, vast fields of the underworld. In the twelve […]
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Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIf you search on references to Ron Silliman in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011), you [...]
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J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTHE CATHEDRAL, by J.K. Huysmans was originally published in French in 1898. The same year, this English translation by Clara Bell was published. THE CATHEDRAL is the second in a […]
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John Trefry – Plats
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPlats is the ornate debut novel by John Trefry. A hallucinatory meditation on life in Los Angeles by a schizophrenic consciousness, Plats turns a funhouse mirror on the banality of […]
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Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGarden of Ashes, Cookie Mueller’s second entry into the Hanuman Books canon (following 1988’s Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls) brings together ten stories, autobiographical [...]
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Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCollected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; two if his most memorable novels, Car and The Gypsy’s Curse; […]
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Copi – The Queens’ Ball
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first English translation of Copi’s comic masterpiece, a careening pyrotechnic picaresque across France, America, and Ibiza. Set among the flamboyant demi-monde of the 1970s Paris [...]
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The Last Dangerous Visions
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series. In 1973 celebrated […]
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Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWelcome to a miasmic world of passion and play, in which humans and dolls interact to the ecstatic point of blurring the boundaries between waking reality and dark dreams; between […]
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