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Selected Poems
$23.99 Add to cartIn Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler’s achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century’s truly vital and distinctive poetic voices. One of the most si
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Schuyler, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530890
- Language: English
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Above the River: The Complete Poems
$23.00 Add to cartOne of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, sturdy, and generous poems with an honesty, clarity, and stylistic range matched by very few–then
- Author: Wright, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0374522820
- Language: English
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Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
$36.00 Add to cartMemory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan’s first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as a major post-World War II German-language poet.
Cel- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0374603235
- Language: English
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Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
$21.99 Add to cartA philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves
In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva No? argues that our- Author: No?, Alva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0809089165
- Language: English
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A Giacometti Portrait
$18.00 Add to cartWhen we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose–the finished work of art. What remains mysterious is the process of creation itself–the
- Author: Lord, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01, 1980
- ISBN10: 0374515735
- Language: English
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
$18.00 Add to cart“Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix’s The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven.” –Hamish Bowles, Vogue
“Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Mar- Author: Brown, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538395
- Language: English
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Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation: Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Read moreA masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney’s translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil’s epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC,- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537046
- Language: English
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Human Chain
$16.00 Add to cartA Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011
Seamus Heaney’s new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband
Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0374533008
- Language: English
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Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division
$19.00 Add to cartThe only in-depth biographical account of the lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow.
Revered by his peers–Bono described his voice as holy–and idolized by his fans, musician Ian Curtis l- Author: Curtis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0571224814
- Language: English
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
$26.99 Add to cartAn NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancie
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0865478767
- Language: English
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Rushmore: A Screenplay
$20.00 Add to cartRushmore is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film Bottle Rocket. It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fi
- Author: Anderson, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 31 1999
- ISBN10: 0571200125
- Language: English
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The Threshold: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet.
Iman Mersal is Egypt’s–indeed, the Arab world’s–great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voi- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607850
- Language: English
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Speak Low
$15.00 Add to cartSpeak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive–and one of poetry’s most essential–contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncomprom
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532168
- Language: English
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Without End: New and Selected Poems
$21.99 Add to cartI love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he’s been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and- Author: Adam, Zagajewski
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528616
- Language: English
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Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition
$23.00 Add to cartReflective later poems of the fiery, Nobel-Prize winning Chilean poet, with English translations and the original Spanish side-by-side on facing pages.
While things are settling down,
here I’ve left m- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0374512388
- Language: English
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
$22.00 Read moreIn Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories–Hermes in Greec
- Author: Hyde, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532559
- Language: English
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Archaic Smile: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA new edition of A. E. Stallings’s first book of poems, which was awarded the Richard Wilbur Award.
In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stall- Author: Stallings, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0374600724
- Language: English
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On Giving Up
$26.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.
To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giv- Author: Phillips, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614148
- Language: English
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story
$17.00 Add to cartNobel Prize winner Peter Handke–“the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games” (Kirkus)–ponders the life and early death of his mothe
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533644
- Language: English
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
$19.00 Add to cartCarsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America’s most beloved weirdo.
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thi- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535450
- Language: English
