On Haiku
By: Hiroaki Sato
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the…
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1. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
By: Natalie Goldberg
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her b… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
"keep your hand moving"-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Write about “leaving."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Begin with “I remember."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"We learn writing by doing it."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
2. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
3. The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku
By: Sam Hamill , Kaji Aso , Kobayashi Issa
4.30
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest hai… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- japan
"Just beyond the gate, a neat yellow hole— someone pissed in the snow"-Sam Hamill, The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku
4. The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa
By: Matsuo Bashō , Robert Hass , Kobayashi Issa , Yosa Buson
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
American readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteen… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- history
- japan
5. The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan
By: Abigail Friedman , None
4.09
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
The problem came to a head one day as I was driving through Tokyo. While waiting for the light to c… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- writing
- japan
6. Intro to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki
By: Harold Gould Henderson
4.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Harold G. Henderson was, from 1927 to 1929, the Assistant to the Curator of Far Eastern Art at the … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- japan
7. Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku
By: William J. Higginson
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or tea… read more
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8. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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9. The Poet, the Warrior, the Prophet
By: None
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Rainer Maria Rilke, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Emily Dickinson, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud and the "T… read more
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10. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
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- japan
"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
11. Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku
By: Bruce Ross
3.66
Format: None pages,
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12. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… 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
"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. Mean Free Path
By: Ben Lerner
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Lerner [is] among the most promising young poets now writing."--Publishers Weekly "Sharp, ambitiou… read more
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15. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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16. Speak, Memory
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of en… read more
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17. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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18. Shuna's Journey
By: Hayao Miyazaki
4.34
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki comes a new manga classic about a prince on a quest for a go… read more
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- japan
19. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- nonfiction
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
20. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
21. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
22. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
23. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
24. Survival Is a Style: Poems
By: Christian Wiman
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman's first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best … read more
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25. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Whale Day: And Other Poems
By: Billy Collins
4.08
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
A collection of all-new poetry from former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Billy Collins's thir… read more
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- nonfiction
"But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life,"-Billy Collins, Whale Day: And Other Poems
27. This Afterlife: Selected Poems
By: A.E. Stallings
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning p… read more
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- nonfiction
28. On Haiku
By: Hiroaki Sato
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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- reference
- japan
29. The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda: Japan's Most Beloved Modern Haiku Poet: Includes a Translation of Santoka's "Diary of the One-Grass Hut"
By: Sumita Ōyama
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- japan
30. Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey: 25th Anniversary Edition: Revised & Expanded
By: Clark Strand
4.47
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
“A brilliant and engaging book on haiku, and on the state of the body and mind required in the mill… read more
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- poetry
31. So Happy to See Cherry Blossoms: Haiku from the Year of the Great Earthquake and Tsunami
By: Madoka Mayuzumi
4.25
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
A remarkable collection of haiku written by victims of the terrible tsunami of 2011. Their poems, a… read more
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