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Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life by anonymous Review "Love Is Not Constantly is a small masterpiece of twentysomething romantic trauma – a book with real clarity of vision that reads, at times, like a horror story." Slate... (read more) Your price: $5.00 New - Trade Paper 
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers) by Mla Publisher Comments The seventh edition is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to research and writing in the online environment. It provides an authoritative update of MLA documentation style for use in student writing, including simplified guidelines for citing works... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems by Mark Doty Publisher Comments Mark Doty's Fire to Firecollects the best of his seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought, as one of contemporary American poetry's most lauded... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essay by Adair Lara Publisher Comments The material is right there in front of you. You’ve known yourself for, well, a lifetime—and you finally feel ready to share your story with the world. Yet when it actually comes time to put pen to paper, you find that you’re stumped. &#... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics by John Pollack Publisher Comments A funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on human history. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack-a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Woolgathering by Patti Smith Publisher Comments A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, "a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me." She discovers--often at night, often in nature--the pleasures... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Hardcover
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If You Want To Write : a Book About Art, Independence, and Spirit ((Rev)07 Edition) by Brenda Ueland Publisher Comments But we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and cheerfulness. Here lies the ability to choose the good... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa Publisher Comments An award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Metamorphoses by Ovid Publisher Comments The Metamorphoses of Ovid offers to the modern world such a key to the literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an important event when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into English verse. --John Crowe Ransom ... a... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Remember by Shane Allison Publisher Comments Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. Inspired by the underground classic I REMEMBER by Joe Brainard, Shane Allison takes us on a fragmented, lustful, and poetic tour of his life, from a turbulent childhood in Florida to his life in New York... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems by Robinson Jeffers Staff Pick I foist this little book on folks every chance I get. Anyone who is concerned with the fate of both the natural world and of a humanity hell-bent on destroying it needs an introduction to Jeffers.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Baby Geisha by Trinie Dalton Publisher Comments Baby Geisha is a collection of thirteen sexually-charged stories that roam from the Coney Island Ferris wheel to the Greek Isles. True to Trinie Dalton's form, the stories in Baby Geisha are distinctly imagined while also representing a more grounded... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard by Joe Brainard Publisher Comments An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember ("a completely original book" -Edmund White) has had a wide and growing influence. It... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch Publisher Comments Nina Sankovitch has always been a reader. As a child, she discovered that a trip to the local bookmobile with her sisters was more exhilarating than a ride at the carnival. Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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I Remember by Joe Brainard Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Gay and Lesbian Studies. "I REMEMBER is both uproariously funny and deeply moving. It is also one of the few totally original books I have ever read" -- Paul Auster. "Joe Brainard's memories of growing up in the '40s and '50s have... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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New Directions Paperbook #1211: A Season in Hell & the Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud Publisher Comments New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bi- lingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat -- a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Heavy Petting by Gregory Sherl Publisher Comments Poetry. "HEAVY PETTING is a hell of a sexy book. A sexy and generous book. A book where thighs are 'spread like warm apple butter,' where one eye is so close to another there is no sight, where we don't 'feel clean unless...burning,' where the not... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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What Is Amazing (Wesleyan Poetry) by Heather Christle Publisher Comments Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Meditations (Modern Library Classics) by Marcus Aurelius and Gregory Hays Staff Pick Consigned to notebooks by one of Rome's last great emperors, Meditations contains the blood and fire of Stoic philosophy. It has been a favorite for many ages and graced the bedside of kings and laity alike.... (read more) Your price: $10.00 New - Trade Paper
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Tell It Slant, 2nd Edition by Brenda Miller Publisher Comments Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction. --Sheila Bender, editor and publisher of writingitreal.com and author of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays When the... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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