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<<< 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 >>>     sort list by title | author Destruction of the Jaguar From the Books of Chilam Balam Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno writes in his introduction to Destruction of the Jaguar that ""The Books of Chilam Balam are the only principal surviving texts of the ancient Maya. Written in the Mayan language but in European script, they are generally... Animations Pocket Poets Number 45 Adam Cornford Speculative and yet impassioned, Adam Cornford's poems animate in the same breath his interior landscape and the terrain of everyday life. Like a lens, his writing can concentrate the light of speech to reveal a world hidden in a single metaphor. You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense Charles Bukowski Alcohol, madness, and the true way. Poetry as life...done in hard time. Roman Poems Pocket Poets Number 41 Pier Paolo Pasolini The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the... Love Poems from Spain and Spanish America Perry Higman The nearly seventy poems in this bilingual anthology are concerned with many kinds of love: erotic love, sublime love, filial love, maternal love, and love between brother and sister. They also explore feelings of friendship, solidarity, and the... Meadowlark West Philip Lamantia Meadowlark West is the final complete collection of poetry written by legendary surrealist and beat-era author, Philip Lamantia (1927-2005). It is, in many ways, his masterpiece... From Nicaragua with Love First edition Ernesto Cardenal San Francisco City Lights 1986, 1986. First edition 79pp. Slight wear to wraps; near fine. Pocket Poets series book number 43. New, 1st Edition War All the Time Poems, 1981-1984 Charles Bukowski Octavio Paz Selected Poems Octavio Paz Volcan Barbara Paschke, Alejandro Murguía Poems from Central America A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt" describes not only Central America in the 1980s but-in the conception of its editors-this anthology of contraband poetry. The poems themselves were often copied by hand and smuggled onto Mexico, from... Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame Charles Bukowski Verses soaked in cheap booze and bad living. Donne this ain't. 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... Dangling in the Tournefortia Charles Bukowski Pound for pound, these poems conjure up the pathology of the human condition better than all those second-card lightweights. Crossing the Water Sylvia Plath <<< 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 >>>