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Rumi: A New Translation of Selected Poems by Rumi Publisher Comments Championed by the likes of Madonna, Donna Karan, and Deepak Chopra, Rumi has won such a following in this country that a few years ago he was proclaimed our bestselling poet. But translations that have popularized the work of this thirteenth-century Sufi&... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Hardcover
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1996 by Sara Peters Synopsis Sara Peters visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition by Patricia O'sullivan Publisher Comments The historic, handsome city in the shadow of Los Angeles has been a creative hotbed since the Arroyo Arts and Crafts scene of the early twentieth century. This literary journal gathers short fiction by such Pasadena-area writers as Michelle Huneven... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Leaf Graffiti by Lucy Burnett Publisher Comments Exploring the interfaces between words and things, the rural and the urban, the natural and the human, the poems in this collection by Lucy Burnett are always in motion. Fascinated by sequence, repetition, and variation, Burnett uses words—and... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Serving Him: Sexy Stories of Submission by Rachel Kramer Bussel Publisher Comments Power and Pleasure "The moment I knocked on this door, I consented to become his plaything. From here on out I have no say in what will happen. No words are to leave my mouth in this space; I am at his mercy. I can only hope I've made a wise choice... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Travels in the South of France by Stendhal Publisher Comments Featuring engravings from its first edition, a captivating travelogue from one of France's greatest authors First published posthumously, Stendhal's travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer by Robert Bly Publisher Comments The illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Tranströmer One day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Sakhalin Island (Alma Classics) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Publisher Comments The only edition in print of Chekhov's exposé of the Tsarist penal system, with many topical reverberations In 1890, the 30-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous 11-week journey from Moscow... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Adultery and Other Diversions by Tim Parks Publisher Comments In Adultery and Other Diversions, Tim Parks seeks, as he puts it, to “dramatize the intimate relation between reflections that are timeless and the ongoing story of our lives.” He succeeds magnificently. Whether his focus is adultery... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The New Directions Poetry Pamphlets: 1-4 by Susan Howe Publisher Comments The first four collections in our revitalized Poetry Pamphlet series, established to highlight original work from writers around the world as well as forgotten treasures lost in the cracks of literary history. Included are: Two American Scenes: Our... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin Publisher Comments The complete poems of the most admired British poet of his generation This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkins poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila Synopsis The Arrangers of Marriage by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My new husband carried the suitcase out of the taxi and led the way into the brownstone, up a flight of brooding stairs, down an airless hallway with frayed carpeting, and stopped at a door. The... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Book of Variations: Love - Zygal - Art Facts by B. P. Nichol Publisher Comments "No other writer of our time and place was so diverse, attempted so much, and never lost sight of his intent."Michael Ondaatje a book of variations collects three difficult-to-find bpNichol textslove, zygal, and art factswhich... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 by Clive James Publisher Comments Six years after the much-heralded publication of Cultural Amnesia, Clive James presents his “prequel”—forty-nine essays that he has selected as the best of his half-century career. Originally appearing as As of This Writing, Cultural... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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English-Language Poetry from Wales, 1789-1806 (Wales and the French Revolution) by Elizabeth Edwards Publisher Comments This anthology presents a selection of poetry from Wales written in English in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. Arranged chronologically, it brings together a wide selection of little-known texts, some of which are published here for... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments In this incisive collection of speeches and essays, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recalling his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Portraits and Observations by Truman Capote Publisher Comments Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Whether he was profiling the rich and famous or creating indelible word-pictures of events and places near and far, Capotes eye for detail and... (read more) Your price: $23.00 New - Hardcover
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Under the Keel: Poems by Michael Crummey Synopsis Michael Crummeys first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Red Spectres: Russian Gothic Tales from the Twentieth Century by Muireann Maguire Publisher Comments In the first decades of the twentieth century, gothic fiction flourished in Russia, despite official efforts to stamp it out. Yet few of these stories have been translated or published outside Russia. This rare collection includes eleven vintage tales by... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Polymers by Adam Dickinson Synopsis The Polymers is a bold and brilliant new work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds. Structured as an imaginary science project, the varied pieces in this collection investigate the intersection of poetry and chemicals, specifically plastics... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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