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The Poetry Lesson by Andrei Codrescu 9780691178059
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.29"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and... -
License to Carry a Gun by Andrei Codrescu 9780887482809
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887482809Author Andrei CodrescuFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Walker Evans - Signs by Andrei Codrescu 9780892363766
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.22"Walker Evans: Signs" traces one particular theme - signs of all kinds - through the long career of this master photographer. The book brings together images from the era and place most closely... -
Andrei Codrescu and the Myth of America by Kirby Olson 9780786421374
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €23.31"This is one of those times, a time choked in the weeds of academic and civilian formalism. To put it mildly, most of what we see in print in North America is unbearably trivial and singularly... -
The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess by Andrei Codrescu 9780691137780
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.46"This is a guide for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life."--The Posthuman Dada Guide The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical... -
How to Live Under Fascism: New Poems and Photographs by Andrei Codrescu 9798991139151
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €17.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991139151Author Andrei CodrescuFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments by Andrei Codrescu 9780691143378
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.27"I fear each passing night that I will not receive my maintenance dose of suspense, and then I will cease to exist."--Whatever Gets You through the Night Whatever Gets You through the Night is an... -
Teaching Literature: Writers and Teachers Talking by Judy Kravis 9781859180266
Booksplease Price: €42.90In this text, writers and teachers such as Grace Paley, Edmund White and Andrei Codrescu explore their responses to literature. They describe how they teach and what they teach, and remember the... -
The Color of Loss: An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katrina by Dan Burkholder 9780292717138
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.00The devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has been imprinted in our collective visual memory by thousands of images in the media and books of dramatic photographs by Robert Polidori,... -
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn 9780691167756
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €23.25A 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... -
Ramones' by Nicholas Rombes
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.16What could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched out three-minute powerhouses in the style that made them famous? The Ramones' repetition and attitude... -
Ancient Acid Flashes Back: Poems 9780874173529
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.96Ancient Acid Flashes Back is the true story of one who was there---and remembers---through the cloying marijuana haze, around the jagged edges of L.A. cross tops and crystal cranks, on wild... -
The Wife Who Wasn't: A Novel by Alta Ifland
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02"This comedy of errors is a page-turner, where a mail-order bride service, enough love triangles to boggle the mind, a stolen Egon Schiele painting, and a devastating fire lead the worlds of Santa... -
Second Line: Two Short Novels of Love and Cooking in New Orleans by Poppy Z. Brite 9781931520607
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40hese two short novels bookend Poppy Z. Brite's cheerfully chaotic series starring two chefs in New Orleans. The Value of X introduces G-man and Rickey, who grew up in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward... -
On Wing by Robert Gal
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.84On Wing, the first published work of fiction by the Slovak poet-philosopher Robert Gal, is a constellation of hundreds of aphorisms, dreams, anecdotes, and inquiries, all written in a restless,... -
The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy: A New Translation by C. P. Cavafy
RRP: €22.61Booksplease Price: €21.21C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has written some of the most powerful poems in history. His work uncannily translates history, the record of the many, into an individual personal document. Though Cavafy is... -
In Short by Judith Kitchen 9780393314922
Booksplease Price: €14.86Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational,... -
Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre 9781408854464
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.39It is the early months of the Arab Spring, 2011. But for three young men, two American and one Iraqi, their minds return again and again to 2006, to the bloodiest stretch of the Iraq War. Members of... -
Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu by Ted Anton 9780810129740
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.52Winner of 1997 Carl Sandburg Award On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and... -
Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music by Jim Daniels
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €25.68While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including... -
Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi 9780742513617
Booksplease Price: €56.06The state of being called nostalgia has a history fraught with ambiguity and poetical connotation. In the late 17th century, nostalgic reminiscences were thought to be the symptoms of a deadly... -
American Patriotism in a Global Society by Betty Jean Craige 9780791429600
RRP: €27.97Booksplease Price: €23.47Argues that the transformation of our world into a global society is causing a resurgence of tribalism at the same time that it is inspiring the ideology of political holism and global... -
Like Blood in Water: Five Mininovels by Yuriy Tarnawsky 9781573661355
Booksplease Price: €21.28In these five surrealist collages, waking life continually gives way before the onslaught of dreams. Yuriy Tarnawsky has condensed the vastness of scope typical of novels into shorter fragments -... -
Head First jQuery by Ryan Benedetti 9781449393212
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €28.41Want to add more interactivity and polish to your websites? Discover how jQuery can help you build complex scripting functionality in just a few lines of code. With Head First jQuery, you'll quickly... -
Aimlessness by Tom Lutz 9780231199346
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €78.94Our culture values striving, purpose, achievement, and accumulation. This book asks us to get sidetracked along the way. It praises aimlessness as a source of creativity and an alternative to the... -
Maintenant 14: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art by Peter Carlaftes 9781941110911
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.47Today's war is for the survival of the planet. In Maintenant 14: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, the weapon of choice is Dada. Today, everyone in the world is affected by the growing... -
Groundwork: Before the War/In the Dark by Robert J. Bertholf 9780811216531
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.77I am speaking now of the Dream in which America sleeps, the New World, moaning, floundering, in three hundred years of invasions, our own history out of Europe and enslaved Africa.Robert Duncan, from... -
Maintenant 20: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art by Peter Carlaftes 9781953103741
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €19.19"A smorgasbord for those who are sick and tired of it." -Seattle Book Review "Three Rooms Press doesn't just preserve Dada-they evolve it . . . In an era dominated by algorithmic taste-making and... -
The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein 9780801868825
Booksplease Price: €52.72"Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the... -
Maintenant 15: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art Peter Carlaftes 9781953103062
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.47"A smorgasbord for those who are sick and tired of it." -Seattle Book Review The 2021 edition of the premiere journal of contemporary dada writing and art considers humankind past and present with a... -
MAINTENANT 17: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art Peter Carlaftes 9781953103352
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.47When a war ends provisionally, the agreement is called a ceasefire. But when peace ends, there is only war. War and peace are co-dependent. Perhaps it is now time for a "Peacefire." In Maintenant... -
'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide by Andrew Hugill 9780262527569
Booksplease Price: €38.59The first complete account in English of the evolution of 'pataphysics from its French origins, with explications of key ideas and excerpts from primary sources, presented in reverse chronological... -
Talking to Robots: A Brief Guide to Our Human-Robot Futures David Ewing Duncan 9781472142900
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.80One of Time magazine's '32 Books You Need to Read This Summer' -- 'a riveting read'.'Intensely readable, downright terrifying, and surprisingly uplifting.'Vanity Fair'A fascinating work of... -
Forgotten Journey by Silvina Ocampo
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28"The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice Lispector."-Mariana Enriquez, LitHubDelicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the... -
Get the Money!: Collected Prose (1961-1983) by Ted Berrigan
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.21A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan."Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his... -
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Bela Balazs 9780691147116
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €21.36A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A... -
Maintenant 16: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art Peter Carlaftes 9781953103222
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.47"A compilation of leading Dada-influenced artists from around the world." TRIBE LA Magazine The 2022 edition of the world's premiere journal of contemporary dada writing and art continues a... -
Maintenant 18: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art Peter Carlaftes 9781953103482
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €18.45In MAINTENANT 18, contemporary dada writers and artists from around the world redistribute a wealth of new ideas, to shape public opinion using the theme of PLUTOCRAZY. "Timely and relevant." -Tribe...