Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1593762755 ISBN 13: 9781593762759
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Armed with a map, a motorcycle, an infectious sense of humor, and a dim understanding of Sri Lankas war, author, artist, and adventurer Mark Stephen Meadows arrives in the country intending to have, as it were, afternoon tea with terrorists. Figuring that the first step to solving a problem is understanding it, he journeys north into the war zone, interviewing terrorists, generals, and heroin dealers along the way.He discovers an island of beauty and abundance ground down by three decades of war. As he travels north through Colombo, Kandy, and the damaged city of Jaffna, Meadows gives his riveting take on the war. Known for child conscription and drawn-out torture methods, he explains, the Tamil Tigers also invented suicide bombing and were the first to lace together terrorists and financiers into international networks of militant uprising.In Sri Lanka, Meadows discovers a deep view into an ancient culture. Along the way, he learns to trap an elephant, weave rope from coconut husks, and cast out devils, and he actually has tea with a few terrorists. This is the inspiring story of his journey and an enlightening meditation on the interconnectedness of globalization, the media, and modern terrorism.
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Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1932360158 ISBN 13: 9781932360158
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Stencil Pirates is the most comprehensive book dedicated to the street art of the stencil. The book contains an exhaustive collection of close to 1000 photographs from around the globe. The photos show work by hundreds of different artists, exposing the width and breadth of stencil graffiti, from political to abstract and purely aesthetic, from tagging to public announcements. Stencil Pirates offers in-depth writings on the complex history of stencil graffiti, its political context, and how stencils fit into the larger pantheon of street expression. It discusses stenciling as a way for political movements to resist and mark territory, whether as part of gentrification struggles in New York and San Francisco or as part of the general uprising in Argentina over the past couple years.Stencil artists are the printmakers of the urban landscape, dropping art on sidewalks, walls, park benches, bus stops, store windows, etc. By far the most accessible form of printmaking, stencil artists simply need a piece of cardboard, a knife, a can of spray paint and something to express. Stenciling is a form of expression that boldly reclaims public space by inserting political or metaphysical messages into corporate landscapes.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1887128271 ISBN 13: 9781887128278
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. God Save My Queen is a collection of lyrical essays drawing on a very unliterary source: the British rock band Queen. World famous in the 1970s for such songs as "We Will Rock You," "We Are The Champions," "Another One Bites The Dust," and "Bohemian Rhapsody," Queens music is embedded in our public consciousness, in our sports stadiums, in TV commercials, and Waynes World.But it is a source of a deeper obsession for the author, poet and journalist Daniel Nesterin God Save My Queen, a short essay or riff accompanies, in order of album and track, every song recorded by the band, in chronological order, until its flopped "disco" album, 1982s Hot Space. Part memoir, part prose poetry part rock book, Nester draws connections betwen everyone from Liza Minelli, Leni Riefenstahl, Billie Jean King, Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury sharing a kiss in 1981, even a rant on Courtney Loves giggling over Kurt Cobains mention of Freddie Mercury in his suicide note. The entries for the songs add up to a love letter to a band, and a time when all that mattered was a record player and a pair of headphones.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press/Red Rattle Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 1932360352 ISBN 13: 9781932360356
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Megan Kelso (illustrator). The author presents a manual for identifying and overcoming the poisonous effects of the media, highlighting the role of community building, teamwork, a sense of history, and self-expression in empowering young people to take control of their mental environment. Original.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1932360840 ISBN 13: 9781932360844
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: used. /Uncensored Box ed. Benka takes us on a re-imagining that cuts through the psychic landscape of America and explores the United States as a "a box of longing with fifty drawers." Like Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Allen Ginsberg before her, she expresses a profound regard for the possibility of America, while delineating the many ways in which America fails to deliver on its promise. She delves not so much into the growing cynicism of Americans as to the deep bewilderment and sadness of us. She asks the deepening question of what is happening to core values such as economic justice, civil rights, a humane foreign policy, freedom and a decent life for everyone and below that, what is happening to the individual psyches within a nation that has lost faith in itself.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1932360182 ISBN 13: 9781932360189
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: new.
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Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1933368187 ISBN 13: 9781933368184
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Collaborative poetry poems written by one or more people grew out of word games played by French surrealists in the 1920s. It was taken up a decade later by Japans Vou Club and then by Charles Henri Ford, who created the chainpoem, composed by poets who mailed their lines all over the world. After WW II, the Beat writers collaborative experiments resulted in the famous Pull My Daisy. The concept was embraced in the 1970s by feminist poets as a way to find a collective female voice. Yet, for all its rich history, virtually no collections of collaborative poetry exist. This exhilarating anthology remedies the omission. Featured are poems by two, four, even as many as 18 people in a dizzying array of forms: villanelles to ghazals, sonnets to somonkas, pantoums to haiku, even quizzes, questionnaires, and other nonliterary forms. Collaborators notes accompany many of the poems, giving a fascinating glimpse into the creative process.
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Published by Brand: Soft Skull Pr, 2002
ISBN 10: 188712876X ISBN 13: 9781887128766
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1887128808 ISBN 13: 9781887128803
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 1887128654 ISBN 13: 9781887128650
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1932360875 ISBN 13: 9781932360875
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1932360778 ISBN 13: 9781932360776
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 1887128441 ISBN 13: 9781887128445
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Pr, 2000
ISBN 10: 1887128476 ISBN 13: 9781887128476
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1932360271 ISBN 13: 9781932360271
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 1887128344 ISBN 13: 9781887128346
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1887128980 ISBN 13: 9781887128988
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1932360794 ISBN 13: 9781932360790
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1932360409 ISBN 13: 9781932360400
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1932360107 ISBN 13: 9781932360103
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 188712831X ISBN 13: 9781887128315
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 1887128336 ISBN 13: 9781887128339
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Soft Skull Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 193236059X ISBN 13: 9781932360592
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.