Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Arab Women's Poems
By: Kamal Boullata
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
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1. Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
By: Gabriela Mistral , Randall Couch
3.90
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international … read more
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"And she grasps it because it's her fate."-Gabriela Mistral, Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
"No happiness or pain, no more forgetting."-Gabriela Mistral, Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
"Now what mattered to me no longer matters."-Gabriela Mistral, Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
"I killed a woman in me: one I did not love."-Gabriela Mistral, Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
2. The Beauty
By: Jane Hirshfield
3.87
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry’s most distinctive and esse… read more
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"In a room with many windows some thoughts slide past uncatchable, ghostly."-Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty
3. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
By: Mahmoud Darwish
4.37
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poe… read more
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"May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!"-Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
"One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions."-Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
"The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands."-Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
"So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph"-Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
4. Sputnik Sweetheart
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
3.83
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more
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"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
5. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
6. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
7. Brokeback Mountain
By: Annie Proulx
4.00
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more
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"I wish I knew how to quit you."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
8. Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems
By: غسان زقطان , Fady Joudah
3.54
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
In this inspired translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me,Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most rec… read more
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9. In the Presence of Absence
By: Mahmoud Darwish , محمود درويش , Sinan Antoon
4.36
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
"Darwish is to be read with urgency, in the night, when nothing else moves but his lines." —The Vil… read more
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"هل أبتعدت لتقترب أم اقتربت لتبتعد"-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
"الحنين يكذب ولا يتعب من الكذب لأنه يكذب بصدق ."-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
"Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third."-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
"الحنين مسامرة الغائب للغائب , و التفات البعيد إلى البعيد ."-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
10. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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12. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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13. A River Dies of Thirst: journals
By: Mahmoud Darwish , Catherine Cobham
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
"There are two maps of Palestine that the politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in… read more
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- poetry
14. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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15. Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
By: Mahmoud Darwish , Adonis , None
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today. Vi… read more
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16. Mornings in Jenin
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did fo… read more
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17. Nothing More to Lose
By: Najwan Darwish , Kareem James Abu-Zeid
4.25
Format: 127 pages, ebook
Nothing More to Loseis the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear i… read more
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18. Bestiary: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological m… read more
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19. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
20. Diving Into the Wreck
By: Adrienne Rich
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more
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21. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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23. Fragments of Horror
By: Junji Ito
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. An old wooden mansion… read more
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24. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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25. The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton , Nina Bawden
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, p… read more
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26. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
By: Lana Del Rey
3.98
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more
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"Live your life like no one’s listening"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
27. Aphrodite Made Me Do It
By: Trista Mateer
3.97
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in th… read more
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"Not all gods are born. Plenty of us rise."-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It
"I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my parents taught me."-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It
"love has little to do with blood relations and more to do with who you choose to bleed for"-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It
"The thing about embracing your own chaos is that it never becomes clear when you need to stop."-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It
28. Brute: Poems
By: Emily Skaja
4.03
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more
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"unfull but full of loathing"-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"I know what to do with the dark."-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
29. Yesterday I Was the Moon
By: Noor Unnahar
3.88
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
yesterday i was the moon is a collection of poetry by noor unnahar - it explores courage, self-love… read more
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"Dreams live as long as the dreamers do"-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
"Words; they are powerlessly powerful so use yours well."-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
"in pieces yet at peace i am a building in a post war city"-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
"Nothing teaches better than this trio the fears, the tears, the years."-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
30. Water & Salt
By: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
4.60
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's debut, Water & Salt, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war a… read more
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"An olive tree is like an iceberg, he tells us, the roots run so deep what we can see above the ground is nothing compared to what lies beneath."-Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Water & Salt
31. Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Arab Women's Poems
By: Kamal Boullata
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
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