And Other Writings Covington Hall & David Roediger ed. 1999 264p 5x 8 In the half-century since it was written, Hall’s Labor Struggles In The Deep South, has become an underground classic among activist historians writing on the South and on working people. Hall—journalist, organizer, rebel, professor, and poet—brings … Continue reading Labor Struggles in the Deep South →
The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt Annette Kobak 1990 258p 6 x 9 Born in switzerland to an anarchist father, Isabelle’s family moved to Algeria when they were a young girl. By the time they were in their early teens, most of their immediate family had died and they set off to explore … Continue reading Isabelle →
André Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS and the Seven Cities of Cibola Penelope Rosemont 2008 250p 5.5 x 8 Nationwide campus surveys show that students today regard the 1960s as the most attractive, creative, and effective decade of the past century. Above all, the Sixties introduced an inspiring new radicalism—in truth, many new radicalisms, a … Continue reading Dreams and Everyday Life →
And Other Poems Penelope Rosemont 1992 80p 5 x 8 Forty-eight dense, sparkling poems resounding with mad love of the truly wild. Includes drawings by Enrico Baj. $3.50-5 Other works involving penelope rosemont, poetry, surrealism, black swan, charles h. kerr
Antonin Artaud 2001 253p 5.5 x 8 “I am the man,” wrote Artaud, “who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud was a poet who wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in … Continue reading Artaud Anthology →
A Pictorial History of the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union H.L. Mitchell 1987 96p 8 x 11 Founded near Tyronza, Arkansas, in 1934 by 11 white and seven black workers, within five years the STFU was organizing all across the South and counting its members in the tens of thousands. Reviving old IWW traditions of workers’ … Continue reading Roll the Union On →
Eileen Myles 1991 188p 3.5 x 8 This book of poetry takes the hallowed and seamy NYC underground of the 70s and 80s and brings it to terse and visionary life. Full of short lines and rollicking city-fied images spilling into each other, ‘Not Me’ takes Myles’ charismatic queer … Continue reading Not Me & The Real Drive →
Sean Arnold 2013 83p 5 x 8 ‘An Open Fall Window’ completes Arnold’s ‘Soliloquy From a Freight Yard…’ poetry book series. Filled to the brim with surrealist rebellion, rebellious surrealism and mad pride, ‘An Open Fall Window’ is sure to instruct and delight as a wholesale insurrection against the mundane and normalized visions of reality … Continue reading Soliloquy From A Freight Yard; An Open Fall Window →
Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists, & Provos in the 1960s Franklin Rosemont 2005 447p 6 x 9 While square critics derided them as “the left wing of the Beat Generation,” the multi-racial, working-class editorial groups of The Rebel Worker and its sister journal Heatwave in London became well known for … Continue reading Dancin’ in the Streets! →
A Memoir Reinaldo Arenas 1992 336p 5 x 8 Written while dying of AIDS in New York City in the late 1980s, this is Arenas’ incredible story, told so movingly and elegantly in all its misery and beauty. Born in impoverished countryside of Cuba, Arenas ran away to join guerrillas at … Continue reading Before Night Falls →