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A candid and rich account of gay life as a poet in San Francisco since the 1960s.

An honest look at U.S. racism, and the liberal platitudes that attempt to conceal it.

A haunting exploration of identity, history, displacement, and war from an Arab American perspective

From one of Turkey's most influential authors, an arresting novel about male intimacy and desire.

An outrageous and wildly popular performance tour of queer-centric, feminist, sex-positive writers, captured in print and coming to your town!

Poems of surrealism by Mexico's famed poet-diplomat, in the tradition of Octavio Paz.

Forty years after Stonewall, a look at the origins and influences of the Gay Liberation movement.

A fantastical gonzo Aztlan mythology, where modern Aztecs and immigrant ghosts uncover blood sacrifice in Los Angeles.

This text is a compilation of primary sources for the appreciation of the Surrealist contribution to cinema and film criticism. This revised and expanded third edition adds new selections to the tables of contents as well as a new introduction by the editor.

This is the ultimate guide to Jack Kerouac's New York, packed with photos from the '50s and '60s, and filled with information and anecdotes about the people and places that made history.

Second, expanded edition, with eighteen new poems.

Carlos Baur is the translator of Garcia Lorca's The Public and Play Without a Title: Two Posthumous Plays, and of Cries from a Wounded Madrid: Poetry of the Spanish Civil War. He has also translated the work of Henry Miller and other contemporary American writers into Spanish.

Life on the outskirts of modern Rome, seen as an inferno.

Vietnam-era poems of rage and compassion. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.

Kraj Majales, 'Who Be Kind to?', 'The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express,' and more.

These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act it out in reality; Idir's victory over Lahcen is the classical story of the kif-smoker's ability to outwit the drinker. Driss the soldier, with aid of kif, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them the kif-pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others but above all with themselves."His work is art. At his best Paul Bowles has no peer." —Time"[W]riters and artists such as Williams, Jack Kerouac, Francis Bacon, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg to Tangier. . .sought Bowles as an oracle, a writer whose work demonstrated its author as an original who saw farther, deeper, and clearer, and who refused to flinch."--The AustralianPaul Bowles (1910-1999) was an expatriate composer, author, and translator. His other famous literary works include The Sheltering Sky, Travels: Collected Writings 1950-1993, and Without Stopping

Fernando Pessoa is one of Portugal's most important contemporary poets, having written under several identities. This volume brings back into print the collection of work published by Ecco Press in 1986.

A mix of myth, legend, and history evokes the vivid life of a frontier legend and abolitionist.

These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.

Clear and cinematic, the Picasso of modern French poetry writes as one talks while working.

Real-life hero of Kerouac's novels tells his own fast-driving story as a hustling, vagrant youth Out West.

Gregory Corso was born on March 26, 1930 in New York City. His first book of poetry was published by City Lights Press in 1955.