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Picador, New York, 2003. First edition. Condition: Very good plus softcover, light edge nicks and creasing at spine.From the publisher: Born of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience. Achilles is an affirmation of the story's enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination.

Condition: Very good, edge wear and corner bumps, spine creasing. corner crease at top rear cover, light scuffing.Poetry, short fiction, photography by Elaine Yau, Tony Esolen, Thomas Mackay, Hans Straub, Stephen Pender, Margraet Wigglesworth, Carol Ashton, Chris D'Iorio, Antonino Mazza, David K. Fujino and others, and an interview with John Reibetanz.

Condition: Very good, edge wear and corner bumps, spine creasing. slight sunning on white background, light scuffing on rear cover.Poetry, short fiction, photography by Chris D'Iorio, Jacques Servin, Gerry Stewart, Kate Manahan, Katie Jaimet, Louise Allin, Cornelia Hornosty, Robert Martin, David K. Fujino and others, and an interview with Robert Fulfod.

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover.Travelling WritersIncludes an interview with Vassilis Vassilakos; essays by David French, Robin Magowan; fiction by David Mason, Joseph Matthews, Thomas Parker, Ersi Sotiropolous; Poetry by Antonis Fostieris, Theresa Pappas; and more.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover, faint sun shadow near spine.Gypsy FolktalesIncludes an interview with Yannis Tsarouchis; essays by Jacques Bouchard, Frank J, Frost, Savas Patsalidis; fiction by John Bradley, Dimitris Nollas, Lawrence P. Spingarn; Poetry by Andreas Anghelakis, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Theodora Stylianidouu; photo essay y Diane Tong; and more.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover, faint sun shadow near spine.Remembering Cafe NeonIncludes an interview with Olga Broumas; essays by Robin Magowan, Frank J, Frost, Fred A. Reed; fiction by Antonis Sourounis; Poetry by Olga Broumas, Kiki Dhimoula, Nikos Engonopoulos, Nicholas Samaras; photography by Hillary Liss; and more.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover, 2 interior pages have slight tears at bottom edge.The Cypress IssueIncludes profiles of Kyriakos Charalambides, Panos Ioannides, Costas Montis; essays by Theoclis Kouyialis, Andriana Lozides; fiction by Chistakis Georgiou, Andriana Ierodiaconou, Niki Marangou; Poetry by Kypros Chrysanthis, Sophocles Lazarou, Popi Soteriou, Lefkios Zafiriou; photography by Andy Sotiriou; and more.

Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa CA, 1995. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.A critical review of the work of Charles Bukowski.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear, price sticker residue.Features poetry by Richard Lemm, Elizabeth Philips, Jim Roberts, Sephanie Bolster, Neile Graham, Erina Harris, Anita Lahey, Linda Rogers, and P.K. Page.

New Directions, New York, 1968. First presumed edition NDP254. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, corner crease, spine nicks and creasing, slight tears at spine, a well read book.Rimbaud—a mythic name—his life as extraordinary as his work was influential in redirecting the course, first of French, and then of world poetry. He is, indeed, the very symbol of what we now call "modern" literature; nearly a hundred years before the arrival of the "mind-expanding" drugs, Rimbaud understood that the borders of the writer's consciousness must be extended and made the deliberate attempt to use hallucination as a creative method.Dr. Starkie, a lecturer in French literature at Oxford, has devoted many years of research to Rimbaud.

Perennial, New York, 1987. 12th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine nicks and creasing, price sticker on rear cover.Arthur Rimbaud, considered by some a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch but also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

Alan Wingate, London, 1946. First edition. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Some age-toning to the pages and page-edges, previous booksellers markings in pencil on inside front page, very light wrinkling of top corner of pages, dust shadow and several tears and nicks on dust jacket.Poems selected by Andre Deutsch and Mervyn Savill. Limited to 5000 copies.

Norton, New York, 8th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge wear and corner creasing, scuffing on predominately black covers, underlining and notes in ink.Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian past, it tells the story of the hero Beowulf, who comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar by killing first the terrifying, demonic monster Grendel, and then Grendel's infuriated and vengeful mother. A lifetime later, Beowulf's own kingdom, Geatland, is threatened by a fiery dragon; Beowulf heroically takes on this challenge, but himself dies killing the dragon. The poem celebrates the virtues of the heroic life, but Hrothgar and Beowulf are beacons of wisdom and courage in a dark world of feuds, violence and uncertainty, and Beowulf's selfless heroism is set against a background of ruthless power struggles, fratricide and tyranny.

Grove/Atlantic, New York, 2018. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl' and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. In The Best Minds of My Generation - a compilation of lectures from the course, expertly edited by renowned Beats scholar, Bill Morgan - Ginsberg gives us the convoluted origin story of the 'Beat' idea. Amongst anecdotes of meeting Kerouac, Burroughs and other figures for the first time, Ginsberg elucidates the importance of music, and particularly jazz rhythms, to Beat writing, discusses their many influences - literary, pharmaceutical and spiritual - and paints a portrait of a group who were leading a literary revolution. A unique document that works both as historical record and unconventional memoir, The Best Minds of My Generation is a vivid, personal and… Read More

Spectrum / Prentice Hall, NJ, 1966. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge wear and creasing, ex-library markings on inside rear cover, slight soiling on rear cover.Among the essays in this volume: Blake's Vision of Slavery by David V. Erdman, Poetry and Design in Blake by Northrop Frye, The Crystal Cabinet and The Golden Net by Hazard Adams, The First Illuminated Books by Anthony Blunt, Little Girls Lost: Problems of a Romantic Archetype by Irene H. Chayes, and States of Being: The Four Zoas by Harold Bloom.

City Lights, 1981. Presumed first printing of the 2nd edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear."In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about." - Kerouac

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2006. 4th hardcover printing. Condition: Near fine, book and dust jacket have light edge wear, light corner bumps.Leonard Cohen was one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing was Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller.Book of Longing contains erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen's artistry with language worldwide recognition.

Grove, New York, 1999. First edition. Condition: Near fine, slight edge wear, price sticker on back cover.From the publisher: Locked in The Arms of a Crazy Life is the acclaimed biography of Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking barfly whose semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure across the globe. Extensive research and unique contributions from friends, family and associates - including Mickey Rourke, Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Crumb, Sean Penn, Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg - as well as personal photographs and drawings make this a must for all Bukowski devotees and new readers alike.

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1987. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, faint dust shadow on covers, spine has light creasing, price sticker on rear cover.Purdy's poetry is notable for the breadth of its moods and concerns. It is at once erudite and populist, brawling and delicate, heart stricken and droll. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry.

New Directions, New York. 14th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight sun fading at top of rear and front cover, price sticker on rear cover.This edition of Dylan Thomas' poetry contains all of the poems which he himself wished to preserve. The poet made the selection in 1952, the year before his death.