Poems 1962-2012
By: Louise Glück
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Even when collected, Louise Gluck's poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive …
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1. Collected Poems
By: Edna St. Vincent Millay , Norma Millay
4.24
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It g… read more
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- womens
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"Give back my book and take my kiss instead."-Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
"I met the wolf alone and was devoured in peace."-Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
"I bleed, but know not wherefore, know not where."-Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
"And so beneath the weight lay I And suffered death, but could not die."-Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
2. 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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- american
- 20th century
"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
3. The Dream of a Common Language
By: Adrienne Rich
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for e… read more
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- womens
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"and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms."-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
4. The Antelope Wife
By: Louise Erdrich
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
One of America's most celebrated authors offers a powerful story suffused with a Native American se… read more
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5. Sharks in the Rivers
By: Ada Limon
3.95
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more
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- poetry
- american
- nonfiction
6. Thirst
By: Mary Oliver
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Thirst,a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
7. The Complete Poems
By: Anne Sexton , Maxine Kumin
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the i… read more
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- womens
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- 20th century
8. Nature Poem
By: Tommy Pico
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more
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9. A Breath of Life
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more
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- poetry
10. The Melancholy of Resistance
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more
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11. 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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12. The Collected Stories
By: Lydia Davis
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American v… read more
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- american
13. Poems 1962-2012
By: Louise Glück
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Even when collected, Louise Gluck's poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive … read more
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- 20th century
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14. The Hatred of Poetry
By: Ben Lerner
3.71
Format: 435 pages,
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wr… read more
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15. War of the Foxes
By: Richard Siken
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more
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16. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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17. 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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- poetry
- american
- nonfiction
"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
18. The Flame
By: Leonard Cohen
4.05
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span gene… read more
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- nonfiction
"And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical"-Leonard Cohen, The Flame
"Straighten up, little warrior [...] It's not as though you wasted your life by loving me."-Leonard Cohen, The Flame
"the flags from the nation but your absence comes from a terrible sleep under a huge museum Enter the moth holes of my longing"-Leonard Cohen, The Flame
"I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I’m old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering com…"-Leonard Cohen, The Flame
19. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- poetry
- womens
- nonfiction
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
20. 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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21. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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- nonfiction
- female authors
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
