Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
At last, a compact, powerful overview of one of America’s most beloved and radical poets―spanning m…
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
3. Everything's Eventual
By: Stephen King
3.97
Format: 605 pages, Paperback
In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for g… read more
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"Time belongs to the Tower."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
"A broken spoon may become a fork."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
"I decided it didn't matter a fuck in a rabbit hutch."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
4. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
5. Mexico City Blues
By: Jack Kerouac , Pierre Joris
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
Le poete Jack Kerouac nous livre, en 242 chorus poetiques, de superbes "meditations sensorielles". … read more
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6. Book of Haikus
By: Jack Kerouac , Regina Weinreich
4.83
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master o… read more
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7. Big Sur
By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his min… read more
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8. I Heard the Owl Call My Name
By: Margaret Craven
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In a world that knows too well the anguish inherent in the clash of old ways and new lifestyles, Ma… read more
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9. Notes of a Dirty Old Man
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages,
"People come to my door--too many of them really--and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man tur… read more
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10. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
By: David Sedaris
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more
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11. The Strange Library
By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more
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12. 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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13. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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14. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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15. Musical Tables: Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more
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16. Snow Road Station
By: Elizabeth Hay
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more
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17. Silence: In the Age of Noise
By: Erling Kagge
3.77
Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition
Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notio… read more
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"When you’ve invested a lot of time in being accessible and keeping up with what’s happening, it’s easy to conclude that it all has a certain value, even if what you have done might not be important. …"-Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise
"What we are experiencing is experiential poverty. Such poverty may not only be about a lack of experiences, where nothing is happening. An abundance of activities can also create a feeling of experie…"-Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise
18. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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19. The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more
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20. Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 62)
By: Tongo Eisen-Martin
4.38
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Allian… read more
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21. Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
At last, a compact, powerful overview of one of America’s most beloved and radical poets―spanning m… read more
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