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Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell. Bridging the Gap Between Symbolism and Surrealism by Kathleen Barth 9783656975670
RRP: $47.25Booksplease Price: $37.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656975670Author Kathleen BarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin... -
Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets Paul Muldoon 9780571373444
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.50An essential anthology of beloved classics, hidden treasures and standout contemporary examples of this ever-vital and enthralling verse form.In the introduction to his selection of some of the... -
Horrible Workers: Max Stirner, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Johnson, and the Charles Manson Circle by Donald A. Nielsen 9780739112007
Booksplease Price: $85.66The poet makes himself a seer by a long, boundless, and systematic derangement of all the senses_. What if he is destroyed in his flight through things unheard of and unnamed: other horrible workers... -
The Day on Fire: A Novel Suggested by the Life of Arthur Rimbaud (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by James Ramsey Ullman 9781943910441
Booksplease Price: $54.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943910441Author James Ramsey UllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint Valancourt BooksPublisher... -
Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations by Clive Scott 9780859897693
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $46.83Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of... -
This Young Monster by Charlie Fox
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a... -
The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $29.90The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual... -
Asero Franois Dominique 9781942658788
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55"A singular novel." -Lydia Davis, author of Can't and Won't and Essays One"An exhilarating adventure!" -Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night and Fabulous Monsters"Extraordinary. . . ... -
The Absinthe Frappé by Marielle Songy 9780807179291
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67The Absinthe Frappe examines the history of absinthe, its origins, and its influences, culminating in the story of the iconic New Orleans cocktail. Marielle Songy reveals how bartender Cayetano... -
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud by Dustin Kyle Pearson 9781950774593
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship. The poems in Dustin Pearson's A Season in Hell with Rimbaud... -
Bread of Angels Patti Smith 9781408867723
Booksplease Price: $39.21A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this... -
Understanding John Edgar Wideman by D. Quentin Miller 9781611178241
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $43.87Among the many gifted African American authors who emerged in the 1970s and 80s, John Edgar Wideman is one of the most challenging and innovative. His analytical mind can turn almost any topic into... -
Bread of Angels by Patti Smith 9781408867730
Booksplease Price: $25.94A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this... -
Proust and His Banker: In Search of Time Squandered by Gian Balsamo 9781611177367
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $60.82What Marcel Proust wanted from life most of all was unconditional requited love, and the way he went after it-smothering the objects of his affection with gifts-cost him a fortune. To pay for such... -
The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History by Phil Baker
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.26La Fee Verte (or "The Green Fairy") has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe's druglike sensations of mood lift and inspiration... -
The Other Orpheus: A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality Merrill Cole 9780415861359
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $73.40First published in 2003. This volume aims to re-establish an interest in poetry by integrating questions of prosody and aesthetics with political literary inquiry. The broader theoretical goal is... -
Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson 9781529924336
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.53'Sand seems as alive as if she had just walked out of the room... quietly witty... fascinating' The Times'Thought-provoking... written with energy, passion and commitment to its fascinating subject'... -
Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-Century France by Greg Kerr 9780367600242
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $57.18This book considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge on prose writing by poets: in Saint-Simonian literature, and in texts by Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire and... -
Eugenio Montale's Poetry: A Dream in Reason's Presence by Glauco Cambon 9780691613857
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.76Glauco Cambon draws on twenty-five years of commitment to Montale's poetry and prose for this extended critical analysis. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy Christopher K. Coffman 9781478029748
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $163.15In Clowns in the Burying Ground, Christopher K. Coffman presents intertextual readings of the Grateful Dead and their lyrics to argue that the band's lyricists were deeply and significantly engaged... -
Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Professor Edward Mendelson 9780691172491
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $62.37Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden... -
Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology by Carrie Noland
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $87.99Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to... -
Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-century France by Greg Kerr
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $112.54This book considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge on prose writing by poets: in Saint-Simonian literature, and in texts by Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire and... -
Varese: A Looking-Glass Diary by Louise Varese 9780393336160
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $39.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLouise Varese was an American biographer and translator of French. She is known for her translations of... -
The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries Terry V.F. Brogan 9780691001685
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $104.06Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this concise new reference book provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $83.24An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new... -
Guillen on Guillen: The Poetry and the Poet by Jorge Guillen 9780691604695
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $69.15Jorge Guillen is one of Spain's most important and productive poets of the twentieth century; yet though recently honored with prestigious literary prizes in Spain, Italy, and the United States, he... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.67An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history... -
George Seferis: Collected Poems - Revised Edition by George Seferis 9780691014913
Booksplease Price: $69.57In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $33.77An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's... -
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn 9780691167756
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $36.65A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the... -
Hothouses: Poems, 1889 by Maurice Maeterlinck
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.63On May 31, 1889, a young Belgian lawyer from a wealthy bourgeois family in Ghent published a book of 33 poems in 155 copies. Maurice Maeterlinck's legal career was floundering but his road to... -
Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy Christopher K. Coffman 9781478033202
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76In Clowns in the Burying Ground, Christopher K. Coffman presents intertextual readings of the Grateful Dead and their lyrics to argue that the band's lyricists were deeply and significantly engaged... -
Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime by Robert F. Storey 9780691611808
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $101.47This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard... -
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.67Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy talesJack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in... -
Poetic Art of W.H. Auden John G. Blair 9780691623665
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.63Attempts to isolate and describe the characteristic poetic mode in which Auden has worked for more than thirty years. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Joyce's Uncertainty Principle by Phillip F. Herring 9780691606408
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $65.50Phillip Herring distinguishes the solvable problems from the truly insolvable mysteries in Joyce studies. His unusual and often witty book contains enough background material to appeal to a beginning... -
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $55.86How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial miningThe 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $153.93This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only... -
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller 9780691205267
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $152.25How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial miningThe 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the...