6 Best poetry books like Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber by Allen Ginsberg

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Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber

By: Allen Ginsberg

2.84

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the poetry plot in Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber by Allen Ginsberg , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Notes on Nationalism

By: George Orwell

4.01

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

In this essay, Orwell discusses the notion of nationalism, and argues that it causes people to disr… read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism."

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"For those who feel deeply about contemporary politics, certain topics have become so infected by considerations of prestige that a genuinely rational approach to them is almost impossible."

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of…"

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled…"

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

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2. The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.48

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgress… read more

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  • classics
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
"Sometimes she answered, 'My mouth wants you, I want to feel you in my mouth, way down in my mouth.' Other times she answered, 'I am moist between the legs."

-Anaïs Nin, The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)

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3. The Three Electroknights

By: Stanisław Lem

3.33

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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4. Three Japanese Short Stories

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

3.28

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales fr… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot."

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands o…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on th…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship – be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult – is something one has con…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

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5. The Vigilante

By: John Steinbeck

3.50

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of A… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • modern classics
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6. The Breakthrough

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.59

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of lif… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"These involve programming it with a series of questions. The answers are then fed back into the computer, and are themselves used to modify the questions that follow."

-Daphne du Maurier, The Breakthrough

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7. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady

By: Clarice Lispector

3.52

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently thro… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • modern classics
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8. Piers of the Homeless Night

By: Jack Kerouac

3.18

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of li… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • modern classics
"The hobo has two watches you can't buy at Tiffany's, on one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky."

-Jack Kerouac, Piers of the Homeless Night

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9. Letter from Birmingham Jail

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

4.54

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

There is an alternate edition published under ISBN13: 9780062509550. 'Injustice anywhere is a th… read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
"It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

"There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over..."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

"Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

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10. The Black Ball

By: Ellison Ralph

3.79

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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11. The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

By: Federico García Lorca

3.33

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
"The evening, lacking intelligent relations, crumbles down into the haze of the horizon.)"

-Federico García Lorca, The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

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12. Food

By: Gertrude Stein

1.96

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • short stories
  • modern classics
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13. New York City in 1979

By: Kathy Acker

3.11

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible." A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to …"

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

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14. The Finger

By: William S. Burroughs

3.31

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of bloo… read more

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  • classics
  • the united states of america
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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15. I Have More Souls Than One

By: Fernando Pessoa

3.96

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumbere… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • modern classics
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16. Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber

By: Allen Ginsberg

2.84

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering. read more

Similar categories in Allen Ginsberg's Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber book and Allen Ginsberg's Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber

  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • modern classics
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17. The Custard Heart

By: Dorothy Parker

3.68

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heart… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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18. The Great Hunger (Penguin Modern)

By: Patrick Kavanagh

3.48

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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19. The Legend of the Sleepers (Penguin Modern)

By: Danilo Kiš

2.93

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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20. An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern)

By: Ryszard Kapuściński

3.61

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World … read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys

21. Till September Petronella

By: Jean Rhys

3.39

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl—all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws' In stor… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • modern classics
"We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt…"

-Jean Rhys, Till September Petronella

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