Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
By: Jimmy Santiago Baca
4.31
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martín & Meditations on the South Valley revolve…
Want to Read $ 9.99"It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect."-Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
"It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect."-Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
"It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect."-Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
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"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."-James Joyce, The Dead
"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pareció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"-James Joyce, The Dead
2. The Raven
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré
4.29
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"Quoth the raven nevermore."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
3. Slow Lightning
By: Eduardo C. Corral
3.10
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Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such dis… read more
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4. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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5. The House on Mango Street
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.31
Format: None pages,
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6. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
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7. Understanding by Design
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3.64
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8. The English Patient
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more
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9. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
By: Alice Walker
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, moth… read more
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10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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4.50
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11. Zigzagger: Stories
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4.27
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3.75
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14. Nervous Conditions
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4.54
Format: 253 pages,
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15. ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
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3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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"I recall that one time he told the people to read the poems out loud because the spoken word was the seed of love in the darkness."-None, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
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3.00
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17. City of God
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18. New Kid (New Kid, #1)
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19. Calling for a Blanket Dance
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4.25
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"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
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3.89
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21. River Woman, River Demon
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3.60
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"Shadow can protect us. Darkness, too, has its blessings. Brujas know this. Mama knew this. Energy is energy. And brujas also know not to stay in one without the other for too long. Balance. An ourobo…"-Jennifer Givhan, River Woman, River Demon
"As we wind through the graves, I’m reminded of growing up down the road from the town dump to the north and the cemetery to the south, my own house haunting the center, equal radius to either destina…"-Jennifer Givhan, River Woman, River Demon
22. Afterparties
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3.95
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"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
23. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
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"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
24. The Flowers of Buffoonery
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3.83
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The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
25. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
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3.14
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"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
26. The Book of Goose
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3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
27. Walking Practice
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3.59
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"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
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"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
28. Floaters: Poems
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4.40
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29. Date & Time (Button Poetry)
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4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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30. Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
By: Jimmy Santiago Baca
4.31
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
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"It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect."-Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
31. The Woman Who Lost Her Soul and Other Stories: Collected Tales and Short Stories (Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
By: Jovita Gonzalez
3.42
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
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