Selected Poems, 1968-1996
By: Joseph Brodsky
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott sai…
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1. The Seven Ages
By: Louise Glück
4.02
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The Seven Ages was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1999. The fierce, austerely b… read more
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"I even loved a few times in my disgusting human way."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you it will not keep you alive."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"The curtains parted. Light coming in. Moonlight, then sunlight. Not changing because time was passing but because the one moment had many aspects."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?"-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
2. 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
3. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
4. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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5. Another Beauty
By: Susan Sontag , Adam Zagajewski , Clare Cavanagh
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
This brilliant memoir is Adam Zagajewski's recollection of 1960s and 1970s communist Poland, where … read more
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6. Blue of Noon
By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic take… read more
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7. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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8. 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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9. Don't Look Now and Other Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely school… read more
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"It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordina…"-Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now and Other Stories
10. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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11. Selected Poems
By: Derek Walcott , Edward Baugh
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous piece… read more
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12. A Sport and a Pastime
By: James Salter , Reynolds Price
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) desc… read more
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13. Mysticism for Beginners: Poems
By: Adam Zagajewski , Clare Cavanagh
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
Powerful New work by a modern master. You must listen, listen, listen. Tired springs breathe under … read more
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14. Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more
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15. The Festival of Insignificance
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an une… read more
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16. C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
By: Constantinos P. Cavafy , Edmund Keeley , Philip Sherrard , George Savidis
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
C. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of hi… read more
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"Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·"-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Η Ιθάκη σ’ έδωσε τ’ ωραίο ταξείδι. Χωρίς αυτήν δεν θάβγαινες στον δρόμο."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Vuelve a menudo y tómame, en la noche, cuando los labios y la piel recuerdan..."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Aunque sea con engaños, que me ilusione ahora: pero que no sienta el vacío de mi vida. (Septiembre de 1903)"-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
17. Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
By: Janet Malcolm
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green, " a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker write… read more
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18. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
19. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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20. Encounter
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new contribution to Kundera's ongoing reflections on art and artists, written with unpa… read more
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21. A Coney Island of the Mind
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life"and expresses the way Lawr… read more
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22. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
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23. 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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24. The Collected Poems
By: Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
"By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. T… read more
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25. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
26. Normal Distance
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to … read more
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27. Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
By: Steven Johnson
3.90
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Map and How We Got to Now returns with the story of … read more
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28. Selected Poems, 1968-1996
By: Joseph Brodsky
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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29. The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
By: June Jordan
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walk… read more
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30. Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination
By: Adam Zagajewski
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this varied collection of deeply personal, lyrical essays and short literary sketches, leading c… read more
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31. Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
At last, a compact, powerful overview of one of America’s most beloved and radical poets―spanning m… read more
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