Barthes, Roland, Richard Howard translator

Empire of Signs

New York, Hill and Wang, 1982. Perfectbound, 110 pp. 5.5"-8". Fine. A most subjective semiology of Japan as a lateral signifier against depth with haiku as the 'conductive thread'..Graphics and photos within. Chartreuse cover.

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Book number: 1660

Catalogue: Haiku and related

Barthes, Roland, Richard Miller, translator

Sade / Fourier / Loyola

New York, Hill and Wang, 1976. Perfectbound, 184 pp. 5.25"-8.25". fine. First American edition original in paperback. Crisp covers, stains to upper face but still fine overall.

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Book number: 942

Catalogue: Semiotics

Bartley, Jan

The Cradle will Fall

Toronto, Coach House, 1977. Stalebound, 36 pp. 4.5"-7.25". Good. Coach House Chapbooks No. 2. Has the great two lines “...you peeled back / my modifiers, left me�. Unascribed progressive colour graphic on front cover, rip to top of all pages. Yet a gem.

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Book number: 33

Catalogue: Poetry

Barton, John,Susan Clark and Laurie Schut, editors

From an Island, Volume 13, No. 1

Victoria BC, University of Victoria, 1981. Saddle stapled, 96 pp. 5.5"-8.5". good. Published by the Creative Writing Course at the Universiy of Victoria. Features poems by Doug Beardsley,Ralph Gustafson and Patricia Young. Waterstains to lovely covers.

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Book number: 292

Catalogue: Periodicals

Barwin, Gary

Th Punctuation of Thieves

Hamilton ON, serif of nottingham , 2010. Staplebound, 12 pp. 5.5"-8.5". As New. Poems riffing on the curves and impact of the common diacritical marks. E.g. "The ampersand dreams. Mother & Child, the primordial & ..." Crisp, cream coloured covers, great leading.

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Book number: 1637

Catalogue: Poetry

Basani, Giorgio, F. Valente et al., tr.

Rolls Royce & Other Poems

Toronto, Aya, 1982. Perfect binding, 49 pp. 6"-9". fine. Authorized translation of poems by the author of "The Garden of the Fritzi-Continis.

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Book number: 1289

Catalogue: Poetry

Basinski, Michael

Of Venus 93

Buffalo NY, little scratch pad, 2007. Staplebound, 24 pp. 6"-9". fine. Sycretic poetry curator goes for signifyings baroque: "indulgence deluge .... conjugated yellow". Manaically surreal cover as well. #3 of little scratch pad chapbooks.

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Book number: 1558

Catalogue: Concrete/visual

Basmajian, Sha(u)nt

The Metal Farm, number two: 3 poems

Toronto, Pnagen Subway Ritual, 1986. Stapled through the front and not taped, 6 pp. 8.5"-11". Second in a series of visual poems from Pangen Subway Ritual. 3 poems of typewrited and black pen interaction and reticence. Light coffee stains to rumpled covers.

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Book number: 1545

Catalogue: Concrete/visual

Baudelaire, Charles

Le spleen de Paris: petits poems en prose

Paris, Edition mille et une nuits, 200. Perfectbound, 112 pp. 4.14"-5.88". Fine. All 50 of these renal outbursts, tout en francais, with a postscript by Chloe Radiguet. Double-exposed red and pink on blue cardstock covers.

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Book number: 36

Catalogue: Poetry

Baudrillard, Jean, Paul Foss et alii, translators

Simulations

New York, Autonomedia, 1983. Perfectbound, 159 pp. 4.5"-7". good. Influential little paperback original when first it was translated. Covers printed violet on black show chips, scuffs and foxing. So 'good condition' only.

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Book number: 943

Catalogue: Semiotics

Bauerly, Donna

Raymond Roseliep: Man of Art Who Loves the Rose

Winchester VA, The Haiku Foundation, 2015. Perfectbound, 300 pp. 5.5"-8.5". fine. Enigmatic poet who was ordained a Catholic priest in 1943 and surged to the forefront of North American haiku by 1975. The life, the passions, the poems bewteen crimson covers.

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Book number: 1663

Catalogue: Haiku and related

Beausoleil, Beau

LASCAUX

San Francisco, Trike, 30103. Staplebound, 32 pp. 4"-10". good. Language Poetry meditations on the caves. Cover art by Andrea Hassiba. Some foxing to corners.

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Book number: 37

Catalogue: Poetry

Beck, Marianna and Jack Hafferkamp

Libido : The Journal of Sex and Sensibility Volume 4 Number 2 Spring 1992

Chicago, Beck & Hafferkamp, 1992. Perfect binding, 80 pp. 5.5"-8.5". As New. Permission to Play", photos from Della Grace's Love Bites and "In the Penis Colony"' by William Levy featured within. Squibs and explicit ads cheek-a-jowl with fine photography.

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Book number: 1303

Catalogue: Periodicals

Beckett, Tom, ed.

The Difficulties/ Charles Bernstein Issue

Kent, Ohio, Viscerlly Press, 1982. Perfectbound, 116 pp. 8.25"-1.75". Good. Best-known of the instigators of L=A Poetry (or, 'Languag Poetry'). 20 pages of poems, an interview and Jackson Mac Low's "Charels Bernstein and his SHADE" among other commentaries.

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Book number: 1295

Catalogue: Periodicals

Beckett, Tom, ed.

The Difficulties/ Ron Silliman Issue

Kent, Ohio, Viscerlly Press, 1985. Perfectbound, 106 pp. 8.5"-11". fine. Wide-open field poetry, some prose, an interview and considerations of, by the likes of Armantrout, Bernstein, Eigner and Davies. Includes his bibliography.

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Book number: 1428

Catalogue: Periodicals