Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros…
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1. 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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- poetry
"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
2. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- poetry
- mythology
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
3. The Master Letters: Poems
By: Lucie Brock-Broido
4.17
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The title of this richly textured book derives from two of the three mysterious letters left by Emi… read more
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- poetry
4. On Being Blue
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a philosophical approach to color, Gass explores man's perception of the color blue as well as i… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
5. Erotism: Death and Sensuality
By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
6. The Book of Promethea
By: Hélène Cixous , Betsy Wing
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In writing Le Livre de PrometheaHelene Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
7. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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- classics
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
8. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
9. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
10. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- mythology
11. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- mythology
12. The Lesbian Body
By: David LeVay , Monique Wittig
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a fictional Sapphic island where women live exclusively among themselves, the narrator-protagoni… read more
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- poetry
13. A Village Life
By: Louise Glück
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village,… read more
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14. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
15. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
By: Maggie Nelson
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiven… read more
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16. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- philosophy
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
17. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
18. Caffeine
By: Steven Bruce
4.57
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Caffeine is an intimate and evocative collection of poetry encompassed by the thoughts that keep us… read more
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- poetry
"We drift apart from each other until we are so alone the ache becomes routine."-Steven Bruce, Caffeine
"And night comes with a gentle storm to permeate the conduits of my blood. And shy rain whispers your name."-Steven Bruce, Caffeine
"All of us wild and fighting for our lives. In the fragrant wilderness of this blue night, my heart sings along with the other nocturnal beasts."-Steven Bruce, Caffeine
19. White Knuckle
By: Steven Bruce
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
White Knuckle is Steven Bruce's poignant debut poetry collection, providing a stark autobiographica… read more
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- nonfiction
"Our scars are a testament that we arrived at the battle."-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
"Strength comes, not in the grip, but the opening of the hand."-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
"We are not the ashes of our past, but embers burning towards a future fire."-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
20. Fugue for Other Hands
By: Joseph Fasano
4.73
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The debut poetry collection by Joseph Fasano, Fugue for Other Hands won the 2011 Cider Press Review… read more
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21. Poesía masculina
By: Luna Miguel
4.09
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Después de sus dos trilogías de juventud, Luna Miguel se despide en Poesía masculina de algunos de … read more
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