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
Beat Generation
Howl (7013)
Fantasy Records, 1959-01-01 05:00:00. Vinyl. Good vinyl in mildly worn sleeve. More
William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible : A Portrait
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
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
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
Come On In!: New Poems
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 The fourth of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America's most imitated and influential poet.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
Dangling in the Tournefortia
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
The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Black Sparrow, 1999. Trade Paperback. Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. More
Night Torn Mad With Footsteps : New Poems
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 This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of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
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories and Poems
Black Sparrow, June 1990. Trade Paperback. More
sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
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
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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
The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship
Ecco, March 1998. Trade Paperback. A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own lives and natures, and to give new meaning to what..... More
Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain : New Poems
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
Slouching Toward Nirvana : New Poems
Harpercollins, February 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and brought to the..... More
Exterminator
Penguin Group USA Inc, October 1985. Trade Paperback. Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike..... More
Naked Lunch
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
Hunter The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson
Dutton Adult, February 1993. Hardcover. More
The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
Harper Perennial, February 2008. Trade Paperback. Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activities Piloting of automobiles under impaired conditions Transporting large sums of cash across national borders *Stunts performed in this..... More
The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 35)
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
Back Roads To Far Places
New Directions, January 1971. First Edition. Paper Back. 12mo.; Five-inch x Six & 1/4-inch. Clean, sound, gently handled. More
Unfair Arguments With Existence: Seven Plays for a New Theatre
New Directions, January 1963. Paper Back. Fifth printing; Mild wear from use; 1.5 in crease presetn at rear cover upper corner; Clean text. More
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950–2013
Liveright, September 2015. Hardcover. Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Francisco's legendary City Lights bookstore. Now the man whose A Coney Island of the..... More
On Bread and Poetry: A Panel Discussion Between Gary Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen
Grey Fox Pr, August 1977. Paper Back. Some fading, shelf wear to the cover. More
Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culed from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period -- thoughts, poems, dreams..... More
