Cali's Picks

Cali photo - black and white image, facing forwardCali is a barista and bookseller at Malaprop's. She enjoys making mead, music, and merry. She has been a bookseller for almost 15 years, and enjoys reading the Lake Poets, American Transcendentalists, and contemporary psychoanalysts. Her favourite activities are foraging and cooking with her partner.

 

 

 

 

 

Books: 
The Complete Poems By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Keach (Editor) Cover Image
$21.00
ISBN: 9780140423532
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Published: Penguin Classics - October 1st, 1997

This collection casts fresh light on Coleridge's nuances and motivations, revealing him to be far more than merely the "metaphysical dreamer". A timeless collection with a useful index.


Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) By Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria Glaser (Translated by) Cover Image
$22.44
ISBN: 9780472065219
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Published: University of Michigan Press - December 22nd, 1994

A vital leap in our understanding of postmodernity, as Baudrillard demonstrates our world's increasingly symbolic parameters, and reveals a masterpiece theory of contemporary culture, which relies on transposing economic ideologies concerning cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.  A radical rethinking of cultural theory.


Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 By Seamus Heaney Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780374526788
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 25th, 1999

Heaney's own selections from twelve previous books of poetry, as well as passages from two of his essential translations, and some previously-uncollected poems.  Strength and pithy colour gush in his short lines and powerful imagery.