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Birthday Letters
$19.00 Add to cartFormerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar litera
- Author: Hughes, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: March 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0374525811
- Language: English
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Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
$22.00 Add to cartIn this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and We
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Magris, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0374522456
- Language: English
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Visions from San Francisco Bay
$20.00 Add to cartInterrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called “remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374517630
- Language: English
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The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartPablo Neruda’s most famous long poem, with the English translations and original Spanish presented side by side.
The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda’s longer poems and- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 1967
- ISBN10: 0374506485
- Language: English
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My Father’s Glory & My Mother’s Castle: Marcel Pagnol’s Memories of Childhood
$29.00 Add to cartBathed in the warm clarity of the summer sun in Provence, Marcel Pagnol’s childhood memories celebrate a time of rare beauty and delight.Called by Jean Renoir “the leading film artist of his age,” Pag
- Author: Pagnol, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0865472572
- Language: English
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Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA visionary selection from one of America’s foremost poets
One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propuls
- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537313
- Language: English
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Berryman’s Sonnets
$16.00 Add to cartA brilliant and fiercely pitched sonnet cycle about love: at once passionate, forbidden, and doomed
John Berryman was an unconventional poet, but he must have surprised even himself when, in his thirt- Author: Berryman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534543
- Language: English
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Poems
$17.00 Add to cartFew American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has transl
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 18 2008
- ISBN10: 0374526419
- Language: English
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Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, the Ermine, the Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette
$25.99 Add to cartThe great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both “pink” bittersweet comedies and “black” tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays—the finest English-language anthology of his works—crackl
- Series: Five Plays #1
- Author: Anouilh, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 28 1990
- ISBN10: 0374522294
- Language: English
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In Suspect Terrain
$19.00 Read moreFrom the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana’s drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the
- Series: Annals of the Former World #2
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1984
- ISBN10: 374517940
- Language: English
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The Tummy Trilogy
$27.00 Add to cartIn the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants he referred to generically as La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisi
- Author: Trillin, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 1994
- ISBN10: 0374524173
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$33.00 Add to cartThis collection of poetry showcases the unique talent of James Schuyler and highlights the writing that won him a Pulitzer Prize.
“Schuyler’s subject is his life, and his poems often read like elegant
- Author: Schuyler, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0374524033
- Language: English
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District and Circle
$18.00 Add to cartSeamus Heaney’s new collection starts In an age of bare hands and cast iron and ends as The automatic lock / clunks shut in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530815
- Language: English
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Genesis
$30.99 Add to cartA probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time–the relationship between the United States and Israel
There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arab- Author: Judis, John B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535124
- Language: English
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
$29.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533997
- Language: English
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II
On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most cru- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531331
- Language: English
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The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartJohn Dryden called Virgil’s Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., “the best poem by the best poet.” The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs,
- Author: Ferry, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530319
- Language: English
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Collected Poems in English
$26.00 Add to cartThe poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last
One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned- Author: Brodsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0374528381
- Language: English
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Being John Malkovich
$16.00 Add to cartWhat do you get when a down-on-his-heels puppeteer working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a Manhattan office building discovers a secret portal into the brain of John Malkovich? Hi
- Series: Faber and Faber Screenplays
- Author: Kaufman, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0571205860
- Language: English
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The Man with Night Sweats: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartThe Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is al
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Gunn, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530688
- Language: English
