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Collected Poems I: 1944-1949 (Green Integer)
by Nelly Sachs  Publisher Comments Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as a "mute outcry" to the Holocaust....
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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition
by Ernest Fenollosa Publisher Comments First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that...
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Open City #26 (Open City)
by Open City Magazine Publisher Comments Open City’s opening credo, announced in an ad in a 1991 issue of The Village Voice calling for submissions, was “Primary sources, nervous voices.” Featuring fiction, poetry, and essays by an exciting array of debut writers and...
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #29: McSweeney's Issue 29
by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments With our biggest line-up in quite a while – fifteen stories from writers like Yannick Murphy, Roddy Doyle, Ben Greenman, and Peter Orner – McSweeney's 29 offers everything a good book should: there is jungle warfare, there are boomerang...
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A State of Laughter: Comic Fiction from Alabama
by Don Noble Publisher Comments Don Noble follows up on his immensely popular Climbing Mt. Cheaha to produce another anthology of Alabama fiction, comic, this time. Over twenty writers, including Suzanne Hudson, Tom Franklin, Lee Smith, Dan Wallace, Joe Formicella, and Madison Jones....
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Between the Covers: The Book Babes' Guide to a Woman's Reading Pleasures
by Ellen Heltzel Publisher Comments With wit and wisdom, the bibliophile’s Ebert & Roeper recommend more than 600 books based on what women care about most. Between the Covers is organized around their wide-ranging curiosity—about themselves, friends and family, the larger...
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Borrowed Rooms
by Barbara Pelman Publisher Comments These poems, spare and nuanced, explore the borrowed rooms we inhabit in personal relationships: the temporary homes of marriage and parenting; the personas we carry for a little while and must ultimately abandon. In tight and unsentimental poems...
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Other Colors: Essays and a Story (Vintage International)
by Orhan Pamuk Review “Other Colors is composed of shrewdly arranged occasional pieces, fragments from journals and other miscellany, edited and at times rewritten to form a remarkably cohesive picture of a literary man…Beyond its clever charm and its wise...
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The Best American Essays 2008 (Best American)
by Robert Atwan Synopsis Edited by The New Yorker's much-loved Adam Gopnik, this year's Best American Essays continues the laudable tradition of collecting the finest essays, "judiciously selected from countless publications" (Chicago Tribune), ensuring that the 2008 edition is...
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton Publisher Comments Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The...
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Silence Fell
by Josephine Dickinson Synopsis Silence Fell marks the American debut of an extraordinary poet from the remote north of England. The poems are set on a sheep farm in the northern mountains and tell the story -- in the form of a modern shepherd's calendar -- of Josephine Dickinson's...
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Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women
by Ambar Past Publisher Comments This book of poems and stark, vivid illustrations is rooted in the female soul of indigenous Mexico. The Tzotzil women of the Chiapas Highlands are the poets and the artists. Ambar Past, who collected the poems and drawings, includes a moving essay about...
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Songs for Tomorrow: Poems 1961-2001 (Green Integer)
by Ko Un Publisher Comments Recognized as the greatest living Korean poet, Ko Un has produced a vast amount of poetry over the years, including the noted collection Ten Thousand Lives, previously published by Green Integer. This new volume selects work from Ko Un's entire career to...
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Correspondence: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
by Pablo Picasso About the Author Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is the colossus of 20th Century art, legendary for his gargantuan capacities for both consuming life and producing art. Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was an art critic, one of the first collectors of Cubism, and author...
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Inhabiting Memory: Essays on Memory and Human Rights in the Americas
by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments The relationship between historical or traumatic events and the memories created by them are examined in this selection of essays by writers who have been affected by the social and political upheavals of Latin America during the past four decades...
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Calypso
by Bob Orr Publisher Comments Arranged in four lyrical sections, this collection of poems presents colorful images with a narrative drive and the true cadences of a storyteller. Traveling from Troy and Waiheke to San Francisco and Spain, this variety of verse leads into a discussion...
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The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991
by Bill Morgan Publisher Comments One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg ventured west in 1956 and was introduced to Snyder by Kenneth Rexroth, a mentor to the Beats and the man who knew everyone...
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The Laundromat Essay
by Kyle Buckley Publisher Comments "I know the owner of the laundromat," reflects the narrator of this extended poem, "but can't remember his name (which could be for many reasons)." The poem is then swept up in narrative tangents and detours as the narrator, also nameless, tries to...
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The Treekeeper's Tale
by Pascale Petit Publisher Comments A poet known for her fierce confessional style focuses on her passion for the natural world in this startling collection of vignettes influenced by California's giant redwood trees. These lyrical, resonant, strange, and imaginative poems echo in the...
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Fiction on a Stick: New Stories by Minnesota Writers
by Daniel Slager Publisher Comments Widely regarded as one of the most progressive and educated states in the nation, Minnesota boasts a rich literary tradition. Writers from Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Louise Edrich and Garrison Keillor have called it home. Like the rest of...
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