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  • Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
    Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
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    Regarded 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
    Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
    Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
    $10.00 | , , ,

    Layering 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. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi
    Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi
    $9.00 | , , ,

    This 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, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
    Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lou Reed – Do Angels Need Haircuts?
    Lou Reed – Do Angels Need Haircuts?
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    In August of 1970, a 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry. Spending months […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Zaza Burchuladze – Adibas
    Zaza Burchuladze – Adibas
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    War 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vladislav Otroshenko – Addendum to a Photo Album
    Vladislav Otroshenko – Addendum to a Photo Album
    $8.00 | , , ,

    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dan Fante – 86’d: A Novel
    Dan Fante – 86’d: A Novel
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
    Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
    $15.00 | , , ,

    Like 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
    Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
    $65.00 | , , ,

    THE 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, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
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    Written 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. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ruggero Vasari – Raun
    Ruggero Vasari – Raun
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    Raun, 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
    Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
    $19.00 | ,

    Self-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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
    Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
    $34.00 | ,

    Written 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, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg
    Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of D…
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    Children 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gerhard Roth – The Will to Sickness
    Gerhard Roth – The Will to Sickness
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    Gerhard 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
    Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
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    Norma 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
    Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
    $15.00 | ,

    Composed 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Brendan Connell – Cannibals of West Papua
    Brendan Connell – Cannibals of West Papua
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    Few 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Habib Tengour – Crossings
    Habib Tengour – Crossings
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    Beginning 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
    Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
    $15.00 | ,

    “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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bénédicte Vilgrain – A Tibetan Grammar
    Bénédicte Vilgrain – A Tibetan Grammar
    $15.00 | ,

    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
    Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
    $20.00 | ,

    If 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
    J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
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    THE 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Trefry – Plats
    John Trefry – Plats
    $18.00 | ,

    Plats 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
    Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
    $27.00 | ,

    Collected 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; […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Copi – The Queens’ Ball
    Copi – The Queens’ Ball
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Last Dangerous Visions
    The Last Dangerous Visions
    $18.00 | ,

    An 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Horror/Science Fiction
  • Ingeborg Bachmann – The Honditsch Cross
    Ingeborg Bachmann – The Honditsch Cross
    $16.00 | ,

    Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
    Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
    $23.00 | ,

    Welcome 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Again, Dangerous Visions
    Again, Dangerous Visions
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    A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre. Grand Master of the Science Fiction [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Fanny Howe – Radical Love: Five Novels
    Fanny Howe – Radical Love: Five Novels
    $23.00 | ,

    Radical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe’s novels: Nod, The Deep North, Famous Questions, Saving History, and Indivisible, previously out-of-print and hard to find classics whose characters [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sol Yurik – Fertig
    Sol Yurik – Fertig
    $19.00 | ,

    Sol Yurick’s cult novel, originally published in 1966, blasts the American judicial system and society in general. It was called ‘one of the fiercest and most effective satires to [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Haruki Murakami – Kafka On The Shore
    Haruki Murakami – Kafka On The Shore
    $15.00 | , ,

    Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (as-is, scarce edition)
    Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (as-is, scarce edition)
    $40.00 | , ,

    With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anne Carson – The Beauty Of The Husband
    Anne Carson – The Beauty Of The Husband
    $10.00 | , ,

    “The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gail Scott – The Obituary
    Gail Scott – The Obituary
    $10.00 | , ,

    In order to traverse a city where identity is tagged by accent, Rosine, Gail Scott’s part-Indigenous protagonist, performs an ever-shifting amalgam, ventriloquizing often suspect voices, both [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William Benton – Birds
    William Benton – Birds
    $8.00 | , ,

    This book was first published in 1972 by the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Portland Museum of Art School in Oregon, as a limited edition of 200 copies. On the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chester Himes – If He Hollers Let Him Go
    Chester Himes – If He Hollers Let Him Go
    $8.00 | , ,

    This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adrienne Rich – Later Poems Selected and New: 1971–2012
    Adrienne Rich – Later Poems Selected and New: 1971–2012
    $12.00 | , ,

    “In Later Poems: Selected and New 1971–2012, the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most important artists of American letters is on display. This volume brings together […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
    Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
    $8.00 | , ,

    “Dedicated to America’s mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Klaus Mann – Alexander
    Klaus Mann – Alexander
    $8.00 | , ,

    “This historical fantasy, written by the son of the well-known German novelist Thomas Mann, takes Alexander the Great for its subject, charting his life and career, and examining his [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry
    Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Letters profiles Canadian artist Michael Morris during the period between 1964 and 1971 with a particular focus on his relationship with concrete poetry, considered to be among the first [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rocco Di Pietro – The Comedy Of The Real (Self-Published weirdness)
    Rocco Di Pietro – The Comedy Of The Real (Self-Published weirdne…
    $12.00 | , ,

    “This is a novel about metaphysics and philosophy in the form a biography.” Self-Published (via lulu books), 2023 Softcover edition. General light wear

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ron Silliman – Jones (Very rare chapbook)
    Ron Silliman – Jones (Very rare chapbook)
    $40.00 | , ,

    Part of Silliman’s Alphabet series/long-form poem. Generator, 1993 Staple-bound chapbook. Cornerwear, light discoloration and creasing to wraps.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Yukio Mishima – Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy (1st American Edition, Complete Set)
    Yukio Mishima – Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy (1st American Edition…
    $225.00 | , ,

    “The Sea of Fertility (豊饒の海 Hōjō no Umi) is a tetralogy written by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. The series, which Mishima began writing in 1964 and which was his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Roland Topor – The Tenant
    Roland Topor – The Tenant
    $18.00 | , ,

    “The Tenant chronicles a harrowing, fascinating descent into madness as the pathologically alienated Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, an enigmatic suicide whose presence saturates [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    $150.00 | , ,

    “VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever “book in a box”, called Composition No.1 by Marc Saporta. When we […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
    Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition…
    $200.00 | , ,

    “With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive