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Five Works by Octavio Paz: Conjunctions and Disjunctions / Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare / The Monkey Grammarian / On Poets and Others (Arcade Classics) by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century has some of his finest art, culture and literary criticism collected here for the first time. A Nobel laureate, Octavio Paz's lucid poetry has been translated by such luminaries as Mark Strand, Elizabeth... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Other Walk: Essays by Sven Birkerts Publisher Comments A series of autobiographical pieces by the master of reflection and slow time Throughout his life, Sven Birkerts, one of the countrys foremost literary critics, has carved out time for himself—to walk, to swim, to read, to contemplate. Now in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books by Arnold Weinstein Publisher Comments From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life’s most significant stages—growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein&rsquo... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach Publisher Comments James Longenbach is the author of three poetry collections, including Draft of a Letter; five works of criticism, including The Resistance to Poetry, as well as numerous essays and reviews. He is Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems (Harvest Original) by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Long before she fell in love with Tuscany, Frances Mayes fell in love with poetry. The author of five poetry collections, she was also a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. In this accessible field guide, Mayes invites... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young Publisher Comments *Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism* *A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012* The first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman Publisher Comments One of The Economists 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED—ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!—TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batumans first article (in the journal n+1) will... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Novelist's Lexicon: Writers on the Words That Define Their Work by Villa Gillet Publisher Comments At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their musings, collected here for the first time, offer an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst Synopsis In this companion volume to The Tree of Meaning, Robert Bringhurst collects twenty essays under the subversive principle that everything is related to everything else.” His studies build upon this sense of basic connection, and involve the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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S/Z: An Essay by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr Publisher Comments Contemporary poetry may seem like a foreign country you've barely visited and wouldn't dream of living in. Beautiful & Pointless, however, reveals how to accept the foreignness of poetry in the same way we accept the strange delights of a place we're... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Freud and the Non-European by Edward W Said Publisher Comments Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said’s abiding... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Heart of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral Philosophy by Anthony Cunningham Publisher Comments Cunningham addresses Kantian ethics as the most prominent modern ethical theory and demonstrates that the theory cannot adequately account for the claims of our most intimate attachments and commitments.... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim by Seymour Krim Book News Annotation Despite the revival of interest in Beat Generation writers of the past decade or so, the innovative work of Seymour Krim has, until now, been largely forgotten. This book corrects that situation, collecting eighteen of essays worth of Krim's "Jewish... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Hardcover
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How Fiction Works by James Wood Publisher Comments In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Poetry Lesson by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments "The Poetry Lesson is a gem--a consistently engaging and entertainingly rambling meditation on teaching and poetry that is filled with Andrei Codrescu's quicksilver mental responses. His teacher-narrator keeps vacillating between denouncing the new, text-... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief by James Wood Publisher Comments Published when he was thirty-three, The Broken Estate is the first book of essays by the man who would become one of America's most esteemed literary critics. Ranging in subject from Jane Austen to John Updike, this collection introduced American... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays by Daniel Mendelsohn Publisher Comments Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Harold Bloom Review Praise for Harold Bloom:“Harold Bloom reminds us what matters. He is our most valuable critic.”—Boston Globe New York Times Book... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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