Fierce Elegy (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Peter Gizzi
4.20
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also―as it has been f…
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1. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
2. Waiting for the Barbarians
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny fr… read more
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"Nothing is worse than what we can imagine"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"I am now no more than a pile of blood, bone and meat that is unhappy."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
3. Hard Child
By: Natalie Shapero
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent aba… read more
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5. Granted
By: Mary Szybist
3.91
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and l… read more
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6. Trilce
By: César Vallejo , None , None
4.36
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
'Trilce' is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic le… read more
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7. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
8. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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9. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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10. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
11. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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12. Fierce Elegy (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Peter Gizzi
4.20
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also―as it has been f… read more
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- poetry
13. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
14. Autobiography of Death
By: Kim Hyesoon
4.08
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nin… read more
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15. Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems
By: Catherine Barnett
4.45
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces―at bedside vigils and in city streets―quickens Ca… read more
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16. Pleasure Principle: Poems
By: Madeleine Cravens
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more
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17. Wound Is the Origin of Wonder: Poems
By: Maya C. Popa
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
“This book is an astonishment. In ravishing, formally exploratory poems, Maya C. Popa wields the ly… read more
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18. Mirror Nation
By: Don Mee Choi
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly… read more
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19. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
20. Conversation Among Stones
By: Willie Lin
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Awakening to histories personal and social, Conversation Among Stones is a meditation on memory and… read more
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21. This Far North
By: Jason Tandon
4.33
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
"In a world of distraction, Jason Tandon's This Far North sings: be here now. Tandon is a master at… read more
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