{"product_id":"2026200012334-secondhand-tales","title":"Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Some wear around edges of binding but otherwise in good condition with clean pages and tight binding. Does not contain the erratum slips with lino print works released on print. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the restless mind of one of South Africa's most overlooked Beat-era poets comes Tales, a visceral collection of verse that crackles with raw energy, dark humour, and an unyielding confrontation with mortality, exile, and the human condition. Sinclair Beiles — a South African-born writer who moved in the orbit of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and the inner circle of the Paris Beat movement — brings to these pages a voice that is at once confessional and surreal, rooted in personal anguish yet reaching toward something universal and uncontained.\n\nRendered all the more striking by the original woodcuts of celebrated South African artist Cecil Skotnes, Tales is as much a visual artefact as it is a literary one, with Skotnes's bold, primal imagery providing a visceral counterpoint to Beiles's incantatory lines. Published under the Gryphon Poets imprint, this rare collaboration stands as a testament to the fertile cross-disciplinary artistic culture of mid-twentieth-century South Africa — and leaves the reader wondering what further depths this singular, turbulent poet left unexplored.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130781343963,"sku":"2026200012334-SECONDHAND","price":250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4f0c2304-ca6e-42cb-afa0-354f5f176b2a.png?v=1786590072","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012334-secondhand-tales","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}