11 Best fiction books like The Complete Poems by Hart Crane, Harold Bloom

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The Complete Poems

By: Hart Crane , Harold Bloom

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of…

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1. The Complete Poems

By: Hart Crane , Harold Bloom

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • united states
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • queer
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2. Zero K

By: Don DeLillo

3.20

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great Am… read more

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  • american
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"The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it."

-Don DeLillo, Zero K

"He told me that I hadn't done anything yet. Hadn't lived yet. All you do is pass the time, he said."

-Don DeLillo, Zero K

"This is how I thought of it. An intuitive link, a reciprocal, one number related to another in such a way that when multiplied together, day or night, their product is one."

-Don DeLillo, Zero K

"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of s…"

-Don DeLillo, Zero K

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3. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

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4. 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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  • american
  • the united states of america
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  • fiction
"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

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5. Cane

By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more

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  • classics
  • american
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  • 20th century
  • fiction
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"

-Jean Toomer, Cane

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6. The Collected Poems

By: Wallace Stevens

4.27

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthd… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
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  • 20th century
  • fiction
"Consider the odd morphology of regret."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

"The death of one god is the death of all."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

"Spring is umbilical or else it is not spring."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

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7. Wittgenstein's Mistress

By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more

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  • literature
  • american
  • fiction
Cover of On the Heights of Despair by Emil M. Cioran, Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

8. On the Heights of Despair

By: Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this b… read more

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  • classics
  • 20th century
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9. Spring and All

By: William Carlos Williams

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Valerie Rouzeau, translator. Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination -- a hybrid of altern… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • the united states of america
  • 20th century
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10. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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11. Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings

By: Daniil Kharms , Matvei Yankelevich

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
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12. 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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13. Selected Poems

By: Robinson Jeffers

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

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  • 20th century
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14. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

By: Peter Handke , Jeffrey Eugenides , Ralph Manheim

3.56

Format: None pages,

Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the … read more

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  • literature
  • classics

15. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

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16. Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more

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17. Selected Stories

By: Robert Walser , Susan Sontag , Christopher Middleton

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the mo… read more

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18. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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19. Song of Myself

By: Walt Whitman

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, "Song of Myself" is an optimistic and inspirat… read more

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20. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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21. The Collected Poems

By: Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

"By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. T… read more

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11 Top classics books like The Complete Poems by Hart Crane, Harold Bloom

Transform Your Habits

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Hart Crane , Harold Bloom

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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Cane

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3.83

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4.27

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George Bacovia

4.18

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Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson

4.20

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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

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