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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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