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10 best books like City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Lawrence Ferlinghetti): Growing Things and Other Stories, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Year of the Monkey, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848, Basho: The Complete Haiku, Turtle Island, Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle, Pomes All Sizes, When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

Growing Things and Other Stories
AuthorPaul Tremblay
ISBN0062679147
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting...
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN0316184136
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON’S POEMS

Only eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumously published collections-some...
Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
AuthorEric Hobsbawm
ISBN0679772537
Having read this first in 2011, I decided to read it again. I've learned a fair bit about the period since then, and so better appreciate the virtues and limits of this volume.

It contains a great deal of condensed analysis - hence it is rich, but often dry. It is also very British -- not only in its...
Basho: The Complete Haiku
AuthorMatsuo Bashō
ISBN4770030630
Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters.

Yet despite his stature, Bashos...
Turtle Island
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN0811205460
Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is "the old/new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millennia, and reapplied by some of them to 'North America'...
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle
AuthorGregory Corso
ISBN0872860884
A good collection from one of the more undervalued Beat poets. Corso has strong merits, but his work comes across as darker and more pessimistic than others, and does not speak to me in the way that Ferlinghetti does or (to a lesser extent) Ginsberg. Much as "Howl" was in many ways Ginsberg's defining poem,...
Pomes All Sizes
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN0872862690
The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac’s death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems,...
When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest
AuthorJimmy Santiago Baca
ISBN0807059358
Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border.

Jimmy Santiago Baca makes the immigration crisis painfully personal in this new interpretation...
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
AuthorJoyce Johnson
ISBN0140283579
Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. But what about Joyce Johnson (nee Glassman), Edie Parker, Elise Cowen, Diane Di Prima, and dozens of others? These female friends and lovers of the famous iconoclasts...
Human Chain
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374173516
A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011
Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award

Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present--the...
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN0811201805
The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate...
The Portable Beat Reader
AuthorAnn Charters
ISBN0140151028
Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstacy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs,...
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
AuthorHanshan
ISBN1556591403
A Zen-Taoist poetry classic, in a handsome Chinese-English format

This definitive translation of Han Shan’s poetry appears in a bilingual Chinese-English format. Included are extensive notes, a preface by renowned translator Red Pine, a findings list, and photographs of the cave and...
The Floating Admiral
AuthorDorothy L. Sayers
Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the...
Mind Breaths
AuthorAllen Ginsberg
ISBN0872860922
Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing crazy Wisdom’s hopeless...
The Rattle Bag
AuthorSeamus Heaney
The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary...
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
AuthorBrenda Knight
ISBN1567312969
The Beat Generation created an American revolution in literature and culture that transformed the mid-twentieth century. The Beats helped make literature a democracy. All one needed, they believed, was passion and a love of the written word. The names of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady,...
Book of Haikus
AuthorJack Kerouac
Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following in the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre,...
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
AuthorJohn Waters
ISBN1250223946
"[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — Booklist

This program is read by the author and includes a bonus...
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