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The Crofter and the Laird
$18.00 Add to cartWhen John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors–Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland–a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofter
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0374514658
- Language: English
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Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
$15.00 Read moreA powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.
Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 0374539359
- Language: English
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Oranges
$18.00 Add to cartA classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually fou
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374512973
- Language: English
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Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1633, at age eleven, Bankei Yotaku was banished from his family’s home because of his consuming engagement with the Confucian texts that all schoolboys were required to copy and recite. Using a hut
- Author: Yotaku, Bankei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0865475954
- Language: English
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Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
$25.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Fr
WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY- Author: Bidart, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537690
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Petrarch
$24.00 Add to cart“David Young’s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West’s crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.”
- Author: Petrarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529612
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$19.00 Add to cartIntense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street–these have been the qualities of Robert Pin
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533164
- Language: English
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A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry
$26.99 Add to cartOne of The New Yorker‘s “Books We Loved in 2017”
A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley’s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and bri- Author: Paley, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537410
- Language: English
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The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
$22.00 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Books of the Year
A provocative, entertaining account of Italy’s diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and present Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped it- Author: Gilmour, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533601
- Language: English
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Sweeney Astray
$15.00 Add to cartSweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney’s version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a b
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0374518947
- Language: English
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The Fsg Poetry Anthology
$25.00 Add to cartTo honor FSG’s 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list–past, present, and future
Poetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s- Author: Galassi, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0374606447
- Language: English
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Bees
$16.00 Add to cartA winner of the Costa Book Award, “beautiful and moving poetry for the real world” (The Guardian)
The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much ant- Author: Duffy, Carol Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0865478082
- Language: English
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Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
$20.00 Add to cartScientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively about our behavior and our world. Surprisingly, despite their utility, many of these
- Author: Nisbett, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536244
- Language: English
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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
