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  • With My Back to the World: Poems

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    A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.

    Yesterday I slung my depre

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    • Author: Chang, Victoria
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 0374611130
    • Language: English
  • Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

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    “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.”
    ―John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review


    Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city,

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    • Author: Sante, Lucy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: November 24 2003
    • ISBN10: 0374528993
    • Language: English
  • Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

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    As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney’s twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Tr

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    • Author: Heaney, Seamus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: October 25 1999
    • ISBN10: 0374526788
    • Language: English
  • Crowds and Power

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    Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology.

    Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and t

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    • Author: Canetti, Elias
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: April 01 1984
    • ISBN10: 0374518203
    • Language: English
  • The Survival of the Bark Canoe

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    In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival

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    • Author: McPhee, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 01 1982
    • ISBN10: 0374516936
    • Language: English
  • 77 Dream Songs

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    A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds

    John Berryman was hardly unknown when he published 77 Dream Songs, but the volume was, nevert

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Berryman, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 21 2014
    • ISBN10: 0374534527
    • Language: English
  • The Art of Teaching Art to Children: In School and at Home

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    An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education from Nancy Beal, with Gloria Bley Miller.

    In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows how

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    • Author: Beal, Nancy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 30 2001
    • ISBN10: 0374527709
    • Language: English
  • Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition

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    A revised edition of this major writer’s complete poetical work

    And I who was walking
    with the earth at my waist,
    saw two snowy eagles
    and a naked girl.
    The one was the other
    and the girl was neither.
    -fro

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Garc?a Lorca, Federico
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1056
    • Publish Date: August 01 2002
    • ISBN10: 0374526915
    • Language: English
  • The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

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    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
    AN NPR BEST BOOK

    Selected by New York Times‘ critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
    A Washington Post Best Political

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    • Author: Packer, George
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: March 04 2014
    • ISBN10: 0374534608
    • Language: English
  • The Women

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    A New York Times Notable Book

    Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conc

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    • Author: Als, Hilton
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: August 06 2004
    • ISBN10: 0374525293
    • Language: English
  • For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

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    For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice

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    • Author: Miller, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: November 14 2002
    • ISBN10: 0374522693
    • Language: English
  • Cain Named the Animal: Poems

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    A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)

    Writing you I give the death I take
    I know I should feel wounded by your de

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    • Author: McCrae, Shane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 0374607842
    • Language: English
  • Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

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    2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction

    Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secre

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    • Author: Spring, Justin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: July 19 2011
    • ISBN10: 0374533024
    • Language: English
  • The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

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    The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.

    A national bestseller and “hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant” (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation o

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    • Author: Menand, Louis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 576
    • Publish Date: April 10 2002
    • ISBN10: 0374528497
    • Language: English
  • Selected Poems

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    Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott’s lifetime of work.

    Walcott’s Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his ear

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    • Author: Walcott, Derek
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: December 26 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374531110
    • Language: English
  • My Brother

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    Jamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid’s incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother’s life and death

    • Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: November 09, 1998
    • ISBN10: 0374525625
    • Language: English
  • Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

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    “Meticulous . . . [Nagle’s] passion for the subject really comes to life.” The New York Times

    New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quick

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    • Author: Nagle, Robin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 18 2014
    • ISBN10: 0374534276
    • Language: English
  • Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems

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    The complete poems of the most admired British poet of his generation

    This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin’s poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988)

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    • Author: Larkin, Philip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 768
    • Publish Date: April 02 2013
    • ISBN10: 0374533660
    • Language: English
  • The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays

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    Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin’s fam

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    • Author: Berlin, Isaiah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 704
    • Publish Date: August 02 2000
    • ISBN10: 0374527172
    • Language: English
  • Scorsese on Scorsese

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    Martin Scorsese’s challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gooodfellas–these titles

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    • Author: Thompson, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 325
    • Publish Date: January 14 2004
    • ISBN10: 0571220029
    • Language: English
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