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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
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"Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today."... (read more)

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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
by Karl Marlantes
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Karl Marlantes's Matterhorn is visceral, raw, and gripping; an exceptionally moving and insightful novel of young men at war. If you love Bao Ninh and Tim O'Brien, you can't fail to be moved by this immensely compelling foray into the leech- and tiger... (read more)

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Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems
Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems
by Billy Collins
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Billy Collins is America's poet. Funny, evocative, and subtly wise, he etches a new word in our hearts. Former Poet Laureate of the United States and frequent guest on National Public Radio, he may be our most prolific and energetic champion of poetry... (read more)

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The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
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I've recently been rereading some of my favorite books; or, at least, what I thought were my favorite books — I was surprised by how few of them I actually enjoyed after all these years. One of the exceptions, however, was Sheltering Sky. If... (read more)

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The Sheltering Sky: A Novel (P.S.)
The Sheltering Sky: A Novel (P.S.)
by Paul Bowles
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I've recently been rereading some of my favorite books; or, at least, what I thought were my favorite books — I was surprised by how few of them I actually enjoyed after all these years. One of the exceptions, however, was Sheltering Sky. If... (read more)

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The Quiet American (Penguin Classics)
The Quiet American (Penguin Classics)
by Graham Greene
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This fabulous novel by one of the 20th century's greatest writers explores issues of guilt, complicity, and redemption in the context of the very early years of America's intervention in Vietnam.... (read more)

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Byways (05 Edition)
Byways (05 Edition)
by James Laughlin
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This is a great, sprawling book, a memoir in verse by the legendary founder of New Directions Publishers. It tells memorably of his life as a rich young literary upstart, his relationships with the likes of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, and... (read more)

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Entering Fire
Entering Fire
by Rikki Ducornet
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"Rikki Ducornet's Entering Fire is a surreal, comic masterpiece, bubbling over with imaginative detail and hallucinatory intensity. Highly readable, highly provocative, and highly recommended."... (read more)

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Stories (Vintage Classics)
Stories (Vintage Classics)
by Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Mansfield lived a tragic life, dying young of tuberculosis. However, in her short life, she proved herself a master of the short story, likened by many to a 20th century Chekhov. She's also the only writer who Virginia Woolf ever admitted being... (read more)

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The End of Dreams: Poems
The End of Dreams: Poems
by Floyd Skloot
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"These poems are luminous and transformative. Poem after poem is quietly breathtaking, whether telling of his father's role as a civil defense leader in 'doomsday' drills in the fifties, or writing of Cezanne's experience of light at the end of a... (read more)

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Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (2ND 86 Edition)
Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (2ND 86 Edition)
by Paul Bowles
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"Paul Bowles, author of the magisterial novel The Sheltering Sky, was also a master of the short story. This book, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, demonstrates that fact succinctly, using hashish as a means of delivering bizarre, dreamlike tales of... (read more)

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Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947
Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947
by William Stafford
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In Another World Instead, we receive a true gift: the early writings of one of our best-loved modern American poets. These poems, most of them composed while Stafford was interned as a conscientious objector during World War II, are small and beautiful... (read more)

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Homegirls and Handgrenades
Homegirls and Handgrenades
by Sonia Sanchez
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Winner of the American Book Award, Homegirls and Handgrenades is strong, heroic, and deeply moving. The poems, ranging from haiku to fairly traditional free verse to longish story-like poems, are devastating. They speak of drugs and loyalty, politics and... (read more)

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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
by Nawal Saadawi
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"Memoirs of a Woman Doctor is a feminist masterpiece. Set in Egypt, El Saadawi's slim novel is the story of a woman who rebels against all of the traditions of her culture. It's spare and elegant, and a marvelous read."... (read more)

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Pocket Poets #57: The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamu Daaood
Pocket Poets #57: The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamu Daaood
by Kamau Daaood
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"Jazz poetry at its best, Kamau Daaood's The Language of Saxophones is vibrant and rhythmic, relentlessly grappling with the myriad realities of life in today's world. This poetry is music for the soul."... (read more)

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Selected Poems: 1970-2005
Selected Poems: 1970-2005
by Floyd Skloot
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Frankly, Floyd Skloot deserves to be better known. His lovely poems, many dealing with subjects made familiar to his readers through nonfiction books such as In the Shadow of Memory, are rigorous and technically brilliant. He writes with equal and... (read more)

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Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Karen and Michael Braziller Books)
Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Karen and Michael Braziller Books)
by Nazim Hikmet
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Nazim Hikmet is one of the truly great individual voices of the 20th century. His eminently readable poems speak of the tragedies of his life — political repression, prison, the loss of love, poor health, and exile — in the voices of the people... (read more)

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San Francisco Poems
San Francisco Poems
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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"Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the founder of City Lights Books, and also a legendary Beat poet in his own right. This little collection consists of Ferlinghetti's poems about his beloved San Francisco."... (read more)

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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
by Charles Bukowski
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"Bukowski. You either love him or hate him. This is one of his best collections of short stories — raunchy, sodden, and bloated. Enjoy."... (read more)

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Annie Oakley's Girl
Annie Oakley's Girl
by Rebecca Brown
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"A cult classic, Annie Oakley's Girl has been described as "one of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime" by Tillie Olsen. High praise indeed."... (read more)

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