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Paperback. Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautreamont (1846-1870). It analyses closely the texts, pretexts and intertexts of this innovative poet, bringing Les Chants de Maldoror and Poesies to the foreground of contemporary critical debates around poetics, genre, intertextuality and influence. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780859894982
ISBN
9780859894982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 84.77

Paperback. What are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great's romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion? What did it mean when the ancient writers told that Alexander had been sired by a thunderbolt or by a gigantic snake? This title addresses these questions and others. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898386
ISBN
9780859898386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. The re-issue of Just Give me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie by Maya Angelou - one of the most celebrated writers and poets of the world. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 94.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Virago London
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860682646
ISBN
9780860682646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. In a series of vignettes of life in her village, Alice Taylor reasserts the priorities of public space and local community. The Parish evokes and explores the positive values of community, which could be renewed and reinvigorated for a present and future that achieves harmony between comfort and the pressing need to respect the environment. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Brandon
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780863223976
ISBN
9780863223976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. Series: Plays. Num Pages: 64 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780868192345
ISBN
9780868192345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Franzen, Cola. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872862425
ISBN
9780872862425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.38

Paperback. The second volume in the City Lights Spotlight series--experimental poems by innovative New York poet and former St. Mark's Poetry Project director. Series: City Lights Spotlight. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142. 100 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DC. Dimension: 178 x 139 x 9. Weight: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872865020
ISBN
9780872865020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.38

Paperback. Poems of surrealism by Mexico's famed poet-diplomat, in the tradition of Octavio Paz. Translator(s): McWhirter, George. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Bilingual
SKU
V9780872865044
ISBN
9780872865044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.10

Paperback. With "Nervous Device, " Catherine Wagner explores the boundary the poem marks between poet and audience on the map of desire. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872865655
ISBN
9780872865655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. A selection from twenty years of poetry from one of the key avant-garde women poets of the post-Language generation. Series: City Lights Spotlight. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 139.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872865983
ISBN
9780872865983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.68

Paperback. The second coming of gurlesque. Here Come the Warm Jets is the highly anticipated, swaggering debut of Alli Warren. Series: City Lights Spotlight. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 147.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872866096
ISBN
9780872866096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.30

Paperback. Lion roars, detonated dada, and visceral emotional truths: McClure describes these tantras as "ceremonies to change the nature of reality." Series: City Lights/Grey Fox. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872866270
ISBN
9780872866270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.96

Paperback. Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry is a compelling and humorous collection of poems by the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Poets. Editor(s): Flores, Juan; Lopez Adorno, Pedro. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 271.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872866560
ISBN
9780872866560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.32

Paperback. New and selected work by a major Latino poet, the best kept secret of the New York School. Editor(s): Caples, Garrett; Poirier, Julien. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 178. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872866676
ISBN
9780872866676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.28

Paperback. Out of Print is a bicoastal surrealistic political poetry extravaganza from the co-founder of Ugly Duckling Presse. Series: City Lights Spotlight. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872867048
ISBN
9780872867048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.38

Paperback. A retrospective of crucial periods in modernism via portraits of its literary lions by the co-founder of the Surrealist Movement. Translator(s): Bernheimer, Alan. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872867277
ISBN
9780872867277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.59

Hardback. Takhyil is a term from Arabic poetics denoting the evocation of images. It has a broad spectrum of connotations throughout classical philosophical poetics and rhetoric, and it is closely linked to the Greek concept of phantasia. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 249 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 942.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906094693
ISBN
9780906094693
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.89
€ 108.53

Paperback. New poems from the award-winning author of Oubliette. Series: Adventures in Poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Zephyr Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780939010745
ISBN
9780939010745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.49

Paperback. Dara Wier's poems call to mind "the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska ..[and] draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absence of sound makes a material presence."-Harvard Review Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 185.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Wave Books United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780970367266
ISBN
9780970367266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.57

Paperback. Clumsy acrobats tumbling through the circuses of philosophy, architecture, politics, religion and just about anything else you can think of, Steve Shavel's wild meditations drift and whirl with spastic brilliance among language's most earnest and playful coincidences. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 173 x 10. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Wave Books United States
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
SKU
V9780972348737
ISBN
9780972348737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.63

Paperback. A rich, thoughtful investigation of this political/historical moment that both illuminates and transcends that moment. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 7. Weight in Grams: 199.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Wave Books United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed
SKU
V9780974635323
ISBN
9780974635323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.65

Paperback. Interconnected poems in voices of a band of explorers. An epic of memory, hope and questioning. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Wave Books United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780974635347
ISBN
9780974635347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. From the Frank Stanford archives: unpublished poems, drafts, letters, and audio. Editor(s): Wiegers, Michael; Weise, Chet. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Third Man Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780991336135
ISBN
9780991336135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.94

hardcover. The letters (1907-1929) present immediate accounts of events and relationships that profoundly shaped Hemingway's life and work. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway. Num Pages: 1870 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 150. Weight in Grams: 3760.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
1870
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107128392
ISBN
9781107128392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.03

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