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A reprinting of Olson's important novel originally published by Simon and Shuster/Linden Press.

One of the major playwrights in the Nyorican writers group.

An autobiographical fiction of major appeal.

A new collection of poems by the noted Italian poet Mario Luzi.

A new volume of poetry by the noted American poet.

The fourth volume in the ongoing series of PIP anthologies of world poetry.

The third in Messerli's study of 20th century evil, The Structure of Destruction.

The first English-language publication of one of the major works of the great Romanian Surrealist poet and novelist, Gellu Naum.

A selection of short pieces in the form of drama and dialogue.

The first major selection of poems by the great Hungarian poet.

Drama. The seven short plays of this volume all concern social or sexual tension and confusion of identity, the joyful chaos that comes of those everyday dilemmas. In "Past Present Future Tense, " husband and wife fight interminably, attempting to utterly control and destroy one another until order is returned with a ritualistic murder, in the title play, "A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky, " a man is disturbed that no one but he can hear a wailing ...

A book of 24 tales by the great Greek writer.

One of the most important texts of American political thought, "Civil Disobediance" eloquently states a position that has influenced the thinking of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and many figures of the protests in the 1960s against the Vietnam War. Thoreau argues that "the progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual." "There will never be a reall...

Born in New Caledonia in the South Pacific, Francis Carco began his life as a libertine youth in the streets of southern France, and when he moved to Paris in 1910 he began writing, producing Instincts, from which most of the works in this volume are taken. Through these years before the war, Carco became the personification of a true bohemian, engaging in alcoholic jags and abusing his body with ether, opium and cocaine. He counted among his ...

The great Christmas classic by Dickens is reprinted in the Green Integer series.

Previously announced on Sun & Moon Press, this is the important volume of dances written by Louis-Ferdinand Celine.

The important long play by Djuna Barnes.

A brilliant new novel by the author of Swanny's Way and Florry of Washington Heights

A new book of poetry by one of the major young French poets.

In this important new collection, publisher Douglas Messerli has collected 80 lyrics of American folksongs and popular music from the 19th century. Some of these songs, particularly the African-American spirituals, chanteys and cowboy songs-are beautiful paens to the American way of living. But the vast majority, minstrel songs of the 19th century and Civil War ballads, are almost perverse in their black humor and sexual undertones. These lyri...