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And the Cat Says
And the Cat Says
by Susan L. (cor) Helwig
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A love-you-love-you-not daisy petal game for the 21st century. Weave in some strange haircuts, flying carpets and two sets of twins. Oh, and did we mention the horses?... (read more)

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Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self (William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self (William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)
by Gish Jen
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For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders' Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her... (read more)

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The Prairie Schooner Book Prize: Tenth Anniversary Reader
The Prairie Schooner Book Prize: Tenth Anniversary Reader
by James Engelhardt
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After ten years of selecting great books from writers, new and established, Prairie Schooner celebrates the first decade of its Book Prize series by offering this collection of excerpts from each years winners in fiction and poetry. Writers such as Brock... (read more)

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Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer
Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer
by Robert Bly
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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)

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Possibility: Essays Against Despair
Possibility: Essays Against Despair
by Patricia Vigderman
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Possibility: Essays Against Despair attempts to translate some of life's disordered events into the orderly happiness of art. The book includes encounters with manatees, children, and snakes; with Henry Adams, Marcel Proust, and W.G. Sebald ; with Texas... (read more)

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Letter from Brooklyn
Letter from Brooklyn
by Jacob Scheier
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Having lived part time in Brooklyn for the past several years, Jacob Scheiers new poems are solidly rooted in Jewish New York life and examine love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of Letter from Brooklyn is the notion... (read more)

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Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011
Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011
by Paul Auster
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"Not since Disgrace, has he written with such urgency and feeling." -The New Yorker Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee's new book follows a young biographer as he works on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. The biographer embarks on a... (read more)

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Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
by Paul Hoover
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Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology galvanized attention on its publication in 1994, making “the avant-garde accessible” (Chicago Tribune) and filling “an enormous gap in the publication annals of contemporary poetry”... (read more)

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Sounds of a Cowhide Drum / Imisindo Yesigubhu Sesikhumba Senkomo
Sounds of a Cowhide Drum / Imisindo Yesigubhu Sesikhumba Senkomo
by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali
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Written from the perspective of working men in South Africa, this classic explores both the banality and the extremity of apartheid as it recalls the energy of the "ancestors," as the author calls them. Showing that poetry is much more... (read more)

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The Last Expedition (Vintage Classics)
The Last Expedition (Vintage Classics)
by Robert Falcon Scott
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Includes the British Antarctic track chart and Ponting's glass plate negatives of the photographs that he took while on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13 Captain Scott's gripping account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 tell of... (read more)

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Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic
Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic
by Eva Heisler
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A series of prose poems set in Iceland paired with a group of lyric experiments that stage the problem of the lyric “I,” this compilation evokes a time in which the romance and astonishments of a foreign land are challenged by the... (read more)

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Rapture: Poems
Rapture: Poems
by Carol Ann Duffy
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Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, “essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages” (The Guardian) The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffys verse have made her much admired among contemporary poets.... (read more)

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Pneumatic Antiphonal
Pneumatic Antiphonal
by Sylvia Legris
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris — her first publication in the U.S. An excerpt: The theory of... (read more)

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Civil Elegies: And Other Poems (List)
Civil Elegies: And Other Poems (List)
by Dennis Lee
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Civil Elegies is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General's... (read more)

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Supplying Salt and Light
Supplying Salt and Light
by Lorna Goodison
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This stunning new book of poems from internationally renowned poet Lorna Goodison opens in Spain and Portugal, conjuring up a new history of the Caribbean and a new way of setting up its heritage.      The title sets the tone for... (read more)

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An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
by Wes Davis
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Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. Collected here is a comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and... (read more)

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Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction
Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction
by Whates Ian
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Following the exceptionally well received first collection, Solaris Rising 2 brings even more best-selling and cutting edge SF authors together for another extraodrinary volume of ground-breaking stories. Having re-affirmed Solaris’s proud... (read more)

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The Bees: Poems
The Bees: Poems
by Carol Ann Duffy
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A winner of the Costa Book Award, “beautiful and moving poetry for the real world” (The Guardian) The Bees is Carol Ann Duffys first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot... (read more)

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Paul Celan: 70 Poems
Paul Celan: 70 Poems
by Paul Celan
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Paul Celan is the preeminent poet of the Holocaust. His chilling, haunted verse, evocative and agonizingly spare, is among the essential writing of the modern age. Paul Celan: 70 Poems is a portable selection of some of his most essential work... (read more)

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The Circle Game (List)
The Circle Game (List)
by Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know... (read more)

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