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The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
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The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s new translation—decades in the making—presents Dante’s entire epic poem in a single song. While many poets and translators have attempted to capture the... (read more)

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The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
by Alice Walker
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In her newest collection of wide-ranging meditations on our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, Alice Walker writes that “we are beyond a rigid category of color, sex, or spirituality if we are truly alive.” For the... (read more)

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Rumi: A New Translation of Selected Poems
Rumi: A New Translation of Selected Poems
by Jalal-ad-din Rumi
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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)

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Serving Him: Sexy Stories of Submission
Serving Him: Sexy Stories of Submission
by Rachel Kramer Bussel
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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)

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Sakhalin Island (Alma Classics)
Sakhalin Island (Alma Classics)
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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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)

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The Granta Book of the African Short Story
The Granta Book of the African Short Story
by Helon Habila
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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)

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Twice the Pleasure: Bisexual Women's Erotica
Twice the Pleasure: Bisexual Women's Erotica
by Rachel Kramer Bussel
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Come One, Come All For Rachel Kramer Bussel, bisexuality is not about keeping your options open; instead it's about looking at the world and seeing a lot more sexy out there. This big book of bi explores it all—there are girlfriends and wives... (read more)

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Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002
Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002
by Clive James
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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)

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Biblioasis International Translation #10: For as Far as the Eye Can See
Biblioasis International Translation #10: For as Far as the Eye Can See
by Robert Melancon
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In the 144 poems of For as Far as the Eye Can See, Robert Melançon re-imagines the sonnet as a "rectangle of twelve lines," and poetry as "a monument as fragile as the grass." Impressionistic, seasonal, allusive, in language sharp and clean... (read more)

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Reckitt's Blue
Reckitt's Blue
by John Wilkinson
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An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard’s L’escarpolette, or The Swing, is often reproduced and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper mid-swing is widely familiar. In Reckitt’s Blue, John Wilkinson explores... (read more)

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Adultery and Other Diversions
Adultery and Other Diversions
by Tim Parks
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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)

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The New Directions Poetry Pamphlets: 1-4
The New Directions Poetry Pamphlets: 1-4
by Susan Howe
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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)

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Farther Away: Essays
Farther Away: Essays
by Jonathan Franzen
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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)

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Portraits and Observations
Portraits and Observations
by Truman Capote
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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)

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1996
1996
by Sara Peters
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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)

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Under the Keel: Poems
Under the Keel: Poems
by Michael Crummey
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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)

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Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition
Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition
by Robert Pinsky and David Lehman
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Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American Poetry. The Best American Poetry is the most prestigious poetry publication in the United States and has been so almost from its... (read more)

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The Polymers
The Polymers
by Adam Dickinson
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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)

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The Collected Poems: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions)
The Collected Poems: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions)
by Marcel Proust
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For the centennial of Swann's Way: the most complete volume of Proust's poetry ever assembled, in a gorgeous deluxe edition As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the age... (read more)

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The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
by Andrew (edt) Jewell
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This first publication of the letters of one of America’s most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade the publication of her letters... (read more)

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