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1 2 3 >>>     sort list by title | publication date Memories of Our Future Selected Essays 1982-1999 Ammiel Alcalay Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice."An outstanding anthology of essays surveying the complexities of Mediterranean cultures; the diverse, changing space of the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa-areas of diasporas... Artaud Anthology Antonin Artaud "I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a... Prison/Culture Sharon E. Bliss, Kevin B. Chen, Steve Dickison, Mark Dean Johnson, Rebeka Rodriguez Nearly fifty artists, poets, and activists examine the contemporary prison system through heartrending art and community Anthology of Black Humor Andre Breton This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the... American Romances Essays Rebecca Brown New England Puritanism meets West Coast hedonism in an inventive remix of America's cultural history. Absence of the Hero Uncollected Stories and Essays, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with more boozy tales of extraordinary madness The Burroughs File William S. Burroughs Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot... Interventions Noam Chomsky "From 9-11 to the Iraq War, from the 'non-crisis' of social security to the leveling of Lebanon, Chomsky provides informed opinion and critical analysis" – Mumia Abu-Jamal Making the Future Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance Noam Chomsky Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics, from the economic crisis to Obama's strategies in Afghanistan and around the world. The Powers of the Word Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943 René Daumal Since his death in 1944, Rene Daumal has come to be recognized as one of the original minds of the twentieth century French letters. Poet, essayist, philosopher and translator, Sanscrit scholar and pupil of Gurdjieff, Daumal was a founder of the... Notes on Thought and Vision Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and the creative process; and a study of gender... Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis Frederick Douglass, Angela Y. Davis A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis The Monstrous and the Marvelous Rikki Ducornet With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous... The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George... 1 2 3 >>>