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The Beauty: Poems
Jane Hirshfield · Knopf
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The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetrys most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging My poems—My Skeleton, My Corkboard, My Species, My Weather—using materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude,... |
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Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
Tim Parks · New York Review Books
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Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where Im Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges... |
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Nothing More to Lose
Najwan Darwish , · NYRB Poets; Tra edition |
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Nothing More to Lose is the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear in English. Hailed across the Arab world and beyond, Darwish’s poetry walks the razor’s edge between despair and resistance, between dark humor and harsh political realities.... |
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
Kevin Birmingham · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 417
Format: Hardcover |
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"A great story - how modernism brought down the regime of censorship - told as a great story. Kevin Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to life. There is a fresh detail on nearly every page." - Louis Menand, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Metaphysical... |
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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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What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford
Frank Stanford , · Copper Canyon Press
Pages: 747
Format: Print book |
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"The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford." - NPR.org"What About This ... introduces to a broader audience an important and original American poet - sensitive, death-haunted, surreal, carnal, dirt-flecked and deeply... |
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Dad Is Fat
Jim Gaffigan · Crown Archetype; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, whos best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonalds, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children—everything from cousins celebrities for little kids to toddlers communication skills... |
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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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The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe
Ann Morgan · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover |
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A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's year-long journey through a book from every country.Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading,... |
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