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A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life.

An elegy for the dream of a radical queer community, and the mythical city that was supposed to nurture it.

With Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner explores the boundary the poem marks between poet and audience on the map of desire.

Tim Wise addresses whites' anxiety about cultural shifts displacing their power and privilege--and offers ideas on how to move forward.

Prose poems by one of Spain's greatest poets.

Essential interviews with makers of the San Francisco Beat Scene by one of their own.

Perloff's memoir of her career in the theater offers a provocative, passionate and deeply personal view of theater's role today.

The deluxe fiftieth anniversary edition.

A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.

Over Kansas, 'American Change,' 'Siesta in Xbalba,' 'The Green Automobile,' and more.

Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with more boozy tales of extraordinary madness.

Important, uncollected work from one of the most infamous, over-the-top writers of American literature.

The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents, and photographs.

"Tells more about Iraq than many commentaries being offered up these days." --Le Monde

Two lost Beat generation books: mystical poems by Philip Lamantia and the legendary poems of John Hoffman.

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

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

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.

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.