Shifting the Silence
By: Etel Adnan
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our …
Want to Read $ 10.99"Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing with numbers, but not counting. Silence demands the nature of night, even in full day, it demands shadows."-Etel Adnan, Shifting the Silence
"Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing with numbers, but not counting. Silence demands the nature of night, even in full day, it demands shadows."-Etel Adnan, Shifting the Silence
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1. The Dream of a Common Language
By: Adrienne Rich
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for e… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms."-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
2. Meadowlands
By: Louise Glück
4.08
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. Th… read more
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- poetry
"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"-Louise Glück, Meadowlands
3. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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- poetry
- female authors
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
4. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
5. Glass, Irony and God
By: Guy Davenport , Anne Carson
4.32
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with s… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"...I am talking about evil. It blooms. It eats. It grins."-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God
"My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it."-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God
"Not passion but compassion. Com—means "with." What kind of withness would that be?"-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God
"Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days."-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God
6. 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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- poetry
- essays
- female authors
"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
7. 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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- poetry
- france
8. O amor dos homens avulsos
By: Victor Heringer
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more
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- lgbt
9. Devotion
By: Patti Smith
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more
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10. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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11. Fair Play
By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more
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12. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
By: Maggie Nelson
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiven… read more
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13. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
14. Exteriors
By: Annie Ernaux
3.57
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more
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- nonfiction
- france
- memoir
- essays
15. On Women
By: Susan Sontag
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"-Susan Sontag, On Women
16. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
17. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
18. The Water Statues
By: Fleur Jaeggy
3.49
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar b… read more
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- female authors
"Ich war dermaßen glücklich, dass ich mich aus Versehen in einer Mauer spiegelte, die in der schönen Jahreszeit glänzte, mein Auge lachte im Frühlingslicht, und das Licht spiegelte sich in den lachend…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Er verließ seinen Vater, Witwer seit wenigen Stunden, um, wie er sagte, "Statuen kaufen" zu gehen, und dabei schien er zu scherzen. Er war den figürlichen Nachbildungen des Schmerzes und der Ruhe sch…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Ich habe viel Zeit in den Kellergewölben verbracht, nicht aus Überdruß an der Sonne oder plein air, ich verlor nur die Kontrolle über die Stunden und über das Leben, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf;…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
19. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- lgbt
20. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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21. Shifting the Silence
By: Etel Adnan
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our … read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- female authors
- lgbt
- philosophy
- france
- nonfiction
- essays
- lebanon
"Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing …"-Etel Adnan, Shifting the Silence
