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In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes ...

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Poetry. Latin American Studies. THE NEW WORLD BORDER is a new collection of essays, poems, and performance text through which Gomez-Pena muses on matters of race, nationality, language, and identity. The book is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic...

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San Francisco's history, politics, and culture here receive fresh appraisals: Popular resistance to the corporate agenda, waterfront labor struggles that reshaped the City and set the stage for economic globalization, the need to preserve the libr...

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This anthology of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries discusses the links between romantic arts and political radicalism. The pieces argue that Romantic views of liberatory dimensions of aesthetics and the promise of radical democra...

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A collection of essays dealing with those monstrous and those marvellous known to us from literature, art, film and politics. It covers writing by Swift, Kafka, Borges and Angela Carter, films by the Brothers Quay and David Lynch, and artworks by ...

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Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice. As a poet, translator, critic, and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New Republic, and Middle east Report, as well as for such literary jo...

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Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Stories, chronicles, and poems by both well-established and up-and-coming young writers about how it was to come to LA or what it was like to gro...

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Shadows of Berlin is, in part, a bleak chronicle of life in Europe growing ever more hostile at the edge of World War II, part mythic parable, Bergelson's stories - passionate, honest, dark, and often hilarious - hint at the possibility of redempt...

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A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, from Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. Rants, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater, ant...

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<p>"You have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And no one else, I repeat, can write it."--William S. Burroughs<p>Edie Parke...

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