The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
By: Dionne Brand
4.51
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's …
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1. English, August: An Indian Story
By: Upamanyu Chatterjee , None
3.78
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His frien… read more
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"We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity."-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless cent…"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams cou…"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, …"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
2. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more
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"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
3. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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4. Immortality
By: Milan Kundera
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out … read more
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"The reign of imagology begins where history ends"-Milan Kundera, Immortality
"واحسرتاه! ففي حالة الحب يكفي القليل جداً لزرع اليأس في النفس!."-Milan Kundera, Immortality
"To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers."-Milan Kundera, Immortality
"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."-Milan Kundera, Immortality
5. Paris Spleen
By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more
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6. A Breath of Life
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more
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7. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
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8. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
9. Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more
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10. A Map to the Door of No Return
By: Dionne Brand
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Map to the Door of No Returnis a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity a… read more
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11. El viento que arrasa
By: Selva Almada
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Un reverendo y su hija de viaje por el Chaco, en un clima de conflictos y tormentas, entreveros y c… read more
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12. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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13. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
14. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
By: Ada Calhoun
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relation… read more
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15. 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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16. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
17. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
18. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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19. 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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20. The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
By: Dionne Brand
4.51
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's … read more
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21. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos
By: Liz Howard
4.09
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of… read more
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