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  • Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
    Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
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    You’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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
    Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
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    This 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
    James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
    James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
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    No 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
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    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
  • 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
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    “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
  • Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
    Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
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    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
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    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
  • Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
    Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
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    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
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    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
  • 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
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    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
  • 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
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    “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
  • 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
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    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
  • Ingeborg Bachmann – The Honditsch Cross
    Ingeborg Bachmann – The Honditsch Cross
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    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
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    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
  • Fanny Howe – Radical Love: Five Novels
    Fanny Howe – Radical Love: Five Novels
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    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
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    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
  • William Benton – Birds
    William Benton – Birds
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    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
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    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
  • Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
    Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
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    “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
  • Rocco Di Pietro – The Comedy Of The Real (Self-Published weirdness)
    Rocco Di Pietro – The Comedy Of The Real (Self-Published weirdne…
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    “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
  • Don Delillo – Libra
    Don Delillo – Libra
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    “In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
    Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
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    “A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
    Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
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    “Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
    Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
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    Althea Gyles (1867-1949), Irish artist and mystic, though primarily remembered today for the book covers she did for the poet William Butler Yeats and her association with the author and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
    Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
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    The Red Sorcerer, originally published as a 64-part feuilleton serial in Le Journal  between 31 July 1910 and 3 October 1910, and here appearing in English for the first time […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
    D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
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    “A collaborative work “featuring a fictional encounter between a businessman and a Portuguese girl on holiday in London” (from the front flap). The authors take turns writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
    Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
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    Alberto Moravia’s nightmarish exploration of disaffected youth in fascist Italy. FSG, 1980 Hardcover First US edition. Light discoloration to dustjacket.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
    Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
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    There’s Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
    Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
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    The Nasr family is spread across the globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
    Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
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    Doruntine or Who brought Dorontine is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine Book is in “Like New” […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stig Dagerman – Sleet
    Stig Dagerman – Sleet
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    A selection of stories from Sweden’s greatest post-war writer. “Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
    Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
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    In 1994, in the company of Italian anarchist & photographer “Dekaro,” the author travelled across Morocco & the disputed Western Sahara. The notebooks from that journey [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
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    Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
    Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
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    In 1676, a century before the British colonized Australia, a defrocked French monk named Gabriel de Foigny published a novel imagining what the land was like. The work is told […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
    Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
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    Booklist review: In a stealthily affecting reportorial voice, debut novelist Falkner tells the story of tepidly successful 1960s movie actress Kitty Dawson via interviews, critiques, press [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
    Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
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    “The Labour of Reading is at the heart of AUTOBIOLOGY. Readership as authorship, authorship as readership – and all of it consequently as thinkership. Questions on ‘work’ and ‘value’ abound. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Grant Maierhofer – Works
    Grant Maierhofer – Works
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    Works is a collection, but also something new: it is a conversation between Maierhofer’s early and contemporary writings that shares its title with Édouard Levé’s masterful experimental Works. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sri Chinmoy – The Silence Of Death
    Sri Chinmoy – The Silence Of Death
    $15.00 | , ,

    Sri Chinmoy’s poetry ruminating on death. AUM Press, 1973 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Some wear and discoloration to wraps.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
    Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Through essays, poetry, stories, and images, writers and artists offer their perceptions of how we fit into the world and where we might be headed. The theory of evolution connects […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
    Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
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    This anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy
    Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy
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    Bruno K. Öijer, bestselling author and fierce social critic, has reached an iconic status in Sweden. He broke through as a rebellious young poet in the early 1970s with a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
    Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
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    The reader will find here the true aftermath of the adventures of Ahab, self-described captain, survivor of his last fight against a giant fish. We will see how this retiree […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alain Mabanckou – African Psycho
    Alain Mabanckou – African Psycho
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    Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho’s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive