Poems 1962-2020
By: Louise Glück
4.46
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fif…
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1. The Yellow Wall-Paper
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.07
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tor… read more
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"I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may …"-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
2. Herakles
By: Euripides , Christian Wolff , Thomas Sleigh
3.88
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of… read more
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- poetry
"Even catastrophes grow weary, No wind can keep blasting all the time. And great happiness in the end falters. Yes, all is change."-Euripides, Herakles
"... Misfortunes in the end Grow tired of plaguing; storms in time blow themselves out. So luck will change from man to man; and everything Yields place to something else. Despair is cowardly; The bra…"-Euripides, Herakles
3. Letters to Milena
By: Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská
3.89
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as … read more
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- poetry
"I can't hold enough of you in my hands."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
4. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
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6. The Complete Stories
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Katrina Dodson
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new reader… read more
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7. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more
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- poetry
8. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
9. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
10. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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11. Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932)
By: Anaïs Nin
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taken from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, Henry and Junespans a single year in Nin… read more
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12. The Selected Poems
By: Federico García Lorca , Donald M. Allen , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorcahas introduced generations of American readers to mesmer… read more
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13. Selected Poems
By: Constantinos P. Cavafy , Avi Sharon
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
The spellbinding verse of one of the most distinctive poetic voices of the twentieth century C. P. … read more
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14. In Other Words
By: Jhumpa Lahiri , Ann Goldstein
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful, and eloquent nonfiction debut In Other Word… read more
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15. Why I Wake Early
By: Mary Oliver
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snak… read more
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16. New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
By: Mary Oliver
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Features previously published and new poems that explore the natural world and how it is connected … read more
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17. An Oresteia
By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Hardcover
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18. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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19. And Still I Rise
By: Maya Angelou
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this inspiring poem, Maya Angelou celebrates the courage of the human spirit over the harshest o… read more
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20. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
21. Septology
By: Jon Fosse
4.52
Format: 825 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more
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"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"-Jon Fosse, Septology
22. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- poetry
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
23. On Sun Swallowing
By: Dakota Warren
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
“On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinne… read more
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"IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE"-Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing
24. Poems 1962-2020
By: Louise Glück
4.46
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fif… read more
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25. Brood
By: Jackie Polzin
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A new literary voice--wryly funny, honest and observational,--depicts one woman's attempt to keep h… read more
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"Life is the ongoing effort to live. Some people make it look easy. Chickens do not."-Jackie Polzin, Brood
26. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
27. Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
By: Ali Smith
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred yea… read more
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"We move from one invisibility to another."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
28. This Is What Inequality Looks Like
By: You Yenn Teo
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, the… read more
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"Memories sustain us — they tell us who we are and to whom we’re connected."-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
"What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are — shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are re…"-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
29. Too Much of Life
By: Clarice Lispector
4.53
Format: 742 pages, Paperback
'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Bet… read more
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"Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"E a morte, que era para ser uma única boa vez, não: está sendo sem parar."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"A CHALLENGE FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS: I dreamed that a fish took off its clothes and was left naked."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"E tudo é muito para um coração de repente enfraquecido que só suporta o menos, só pode querer o pouco e aos poucos."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
30. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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31. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
