Walking Backwards: Poems 1966-2016
By: John Koethe
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Collected poems from America’s searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet . . . There ’ s something…
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1. Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
By: William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects … read more
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"they are mystified by certain instances."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my …"-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
2. Meadowlands
By: Louise Glück
4.08
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. Th… read more
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"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"-Louise Glück, Meadowlands
3. 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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"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
4. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
5. Watt
By: Samuel Beckett
4.50
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Fiction. WATT was the beginning of Samuel Becket's post-war literary career, the fruition of the ye… read more
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6. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
By: Ezra Pound
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very larg… read more
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7. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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8. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more
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9. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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10. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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11. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
12. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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13. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
14. A Coney Island of the Mind
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life"and expresses the way Lawr… read more
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16. Without: Poems
By: Donald Hall
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
You might expect the fact of dying--the dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet--to make for a blea… read more
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17. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more
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18. House of Light
By: Mary Oliver
4.23
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston GlobeLawrence L. Winship Book Award Th… read more
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19. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
20. The Sun and Her Flowers
By: Rupi Kaur
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited s… read more
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21. Human Chain
By: Seamus Heaney
3.43
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A Boston GlobeBest Poetry Book of 2011 Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2011 P… read more
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22. Red Bird
By: Mary Oliver
2.83
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's… read more
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23. The Bhagavad Gita
By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more
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24. New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994
By: Stephen Dunn
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects from his eight collections an… read more
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25. The Complete Poems 1927-1979
By: Elizabeth Bishop
3.35
Format: None pages,
Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't want to be seen as a "woman… read more
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26. Twilight of the Idols
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more
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27. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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28. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
29. Walking Backwards: Poems 1966-2016
By: John Koethe
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Collected poems from America’s searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet . . . There ’ s something… read more
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