Penguin Modern Poets 5: Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg by Gregory Corso (1970-08-05)
Penguin Books Ltd. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear. Rubbed edges and corners. Binding still tight and text unmarked. More
Penguin Books Ltd. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear. Rubbed edges and corners. Binding still tight and text unmarked. More
Fantasy Records, 1959-01-01 05:00:00. Vinyl. Good vinyl in mildly worn sleeve. More
Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap), August 1994. Trade Paperback. With the premiere of David Cronenberg's adaptation of Burrows' Naked Lunch, a new wave of fascination has been generated for this fierce anti-establishment crusader--the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed of genius (Norman Mailer). Photos. More
Ecco, 2004. Trade Paperback. Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it. More
Ecco, January 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The fourth of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America's most imitated and influential poet. Recent features in The New Yorker and on NPR's Morning Edition have proven that interest in Bukowski and his works is ever present..... More
Black Sparrow, 1981. Trade Paperback. There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure. Octavo. Mildly darkened spine and margins. Damp stains..... More
Black Sparrow, 1999. Trade Paperback. Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. More
Harpercollins, September 2001. Paper Back. This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom. More
Black Sparrow, June 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Ecco, January 2004. Trade Paperback. One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in..... More
City Lights Books, 1983. Trade Paperback. Exceptional stories that come pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again. This collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General..... More
Black Sparrow, September 1999. Trade Paperback. This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s. More
Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty..... More
Ecco, January 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Throwing away the alarm clock my father always said, early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. It was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee..... More
Viking Adult, July 1993. Hardcover. Solid binding, mildly worn at spine; Pages free of markings; Publisher remainder mark present at lower outer edge text-block; Un-clipped dust jacket VG, mildly edge-worn w/ single closed tear present at lower jacket front, approx. 1 inch; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure..... More
Grove Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. "Naked Lunch" is the unnerving tale of a monumental descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict as he travels from New York to Tangiers, then into Interzone, a nightmarish modern urban wasteland in which the forces of good and evil vie for..... More
Grove Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. "Naked Lunch" is the unnerving tale of a monumental descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict as he travels from New York to Tangiers, then into Interzone, a nightmarish modern urban wasteland in which the forces of good and evil vie for..... More
Grove Press, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in a commemorative edition that features restored text, archival material, Burroughs's own later introduction..... More
Grove Press, December 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. "Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader" brings together selections of Burroughs' most important and challenging work - beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel, "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks"..... More
Dutton Adult, February 1993. Hardcover. More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1960. Trade Paperback. Gregory Corso has been much publicized as one of the leading literary spokesmen for the "Beat Generation, " together with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs. It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the "Beats"..... More
Cambridge University Press, November 1989. Hardcover. Though the term "San Francisco Renaissance" is usually associated with the Beat movement, it was in reality a collage of different communities, often at odds with one another, whose agendas were social and political as much as aesthetic. These subcommunities provided important contexts for..... More
New Directions, January 1971. First Edition. Paper Back. 12mo.; Five-inch x Six & 1/4-inch. Clean, sound, gently handled. More
New Directions, January 1973. Trade Paperback. More