Smog Mother
By: John Wall Barger
4.56
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In Smog Mother, John Wall Barger asks: What is a poet without a home? Over and over he finds answer…
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1. The Bridge
By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler
4.08
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more
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"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."-Hart Crane, The Bridge
"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"-Hart Crane, The Bridge
2. Down Below
By: Leonora Carrington , Debra Taub
3.84
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Black Swan Press 1983 Surrealist Editions Paperback. read more
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"I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all."-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
"I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg …"-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
3. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
4. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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5. If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more
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6. Hera Lindsay Bird
By: Hera Lindsay Bird
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl.........with many beneficial… read more
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- poetry
7. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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8. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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9. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan
3.85
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more
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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
10. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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11. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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12. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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13. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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14. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
15. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
16. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
17. Women Talking
By: Miriam Toews
3.62
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past … read more
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"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
18. The Baudelaire Fractal
By: Lisa Robertson
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the c… read more
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19. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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20. Three Poems
By: Hannah Sullivan
3.90
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 201… read more
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21. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
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22. Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
By: Mike Reiss
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary, the show’s longest-serving writer and produce… read more
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"There were three great comedians in my formative years—Bill Cosby, Bill Murray, and Richard Pryor—and they wrecked comedy for a generation. How? By never saying anything funny. You can quote a Steve …"-Mike Reiss, Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
23. Guillotine: Poems
By: Eduardo C. Corral
4.34
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more
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24. Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir
By: Kathryn Davis
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age … read more
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25. 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin
By: Thomas King
4.32
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptional Seventy-seven poems intended as a… read more
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26. Debths
By: Susan Howe
4.03
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize A collection in five parts, Susan Howe’s electrify… read more
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27. Best Canadian Poetry 2021
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Guest editor Souvankham Thammavongsa, Giller Prize-winning author of How to Pronounce Knife, brings… read more
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28. Smog Mother
By: John Wall Barger
4.56
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In Smog Mother, John Wall Barger asks: What is a poet without a home? Over and over he finds answer… read more
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29. The Bad Wife (Robert Kroetsch Series)
By: Micheline Maylor
4.56
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Micheline Maylor's The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This … read more
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30. Lines Off
By: Hugo Williams
3.30
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Catching a sudden look of defiance from his granddaughter inspires Hugo Williams to take up his pen… read more
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31. Nightlight
By: David Barrick
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Patterned on a series of dream states, David Barrick’s Nightlight delves into the surreal nature … read more
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