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Legs Get Led Astray
by Chloe Caldwell
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A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver
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I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I... (read more)

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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
by David Shields
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The Polysyllabic Spree
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Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature)
by Anne Carson
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
by Roland Barthes
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This is a book best read immediately after the end of an intimate relationship. Devoid of sentimentality, it is a meditation of a lover when alone. Written in fragments, the overriding theme is that the lover, I, never absolutely, truly sees the beloved,... (read more)

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The Boys of My Youth
by Jo Ann Beard
Staff Pick
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Abc of Reading (10 Edition)
by Ezra Pound
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