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What If?
Randall Munroe · Mariner Books
Pages: 303
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From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language,... |
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This Blue: Poems
Maureen N McLane · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 107
Format: Hardcover |
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National Book Award Finalist A vital, exhilarating new collection of poems from the National Book Critics Circle nominee From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it's "another day in this here cosmos," in Maureen N. McLane's stunning third poetry collection, "This... |
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Roget's Illusion
Linda Bierds · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 98
Format: Print book |
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"Her poems, with their constantly surprising delicacy and their language rich with insight and a sensuous music, radiate real power and authority and animal presence." - W. S. Merwin (U.S. Poet Laureate, 2010-2011) He is best known for his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases,... |
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Brigid Schulte · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 353
Format: Hardcover |
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Can working parents in America - or anywhere - ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously... |
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A Poet's Glossary
Edward Hirsch · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch's sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore - a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over.... |
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Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
James Baldwin · Beacon Press,
Pages: 94
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All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread praise.... |
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The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse, 1926-1938
W. H. Auden , · Princeton University Press
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This book contains all the essays and reviews that W. H. Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full original versions of his two illustrated travel books, Letters from Iceland (written in collaboration with Louis MacNeice) and Journey to a War (written... |
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Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing
Deborah Levy · Bloomsbury
Pages: 111
Format: Hardcover |
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Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay "Why I Write." Orwell identified four... |
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