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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Staff Pick "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) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems by Billy Collins Staff Pick 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) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes Staff Pick 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles Staff Pick 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) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sheltering Sky: A Novel (P.S.) by Paul Bowles Staff Pick 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) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems: 1970-2005 by Floyd Skloot Staff Pick 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Annie Oakley's Girl by Rebecca Brown Staff Pick "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) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Measured by Stone by Sam Hamill Staff Pick What to say about Sam Hamill? The legendary founder of Copper Canyon Press is a gifted poet in his own right, and this fine collection will only go to further his reputation. Whether writing of love or politics, Hamill hones in on his subject and... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin by James Laughlin Staff Pick This is a fabulous book for anyone obsessed by the literary culture of our country. It shares snippets of the story of James Laughlin, legendary founder of New Directions Publishing, the man who single-handedly brought us Ezra Pound, William Carlos... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Byways (05 Edition) by James Laughlin Staff Pick 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories (Vintage Classics) by Katherine Mansfield Staff Pick 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (2ND 86 Edition) by Paul Bowles Staff Pick "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) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Dreams: Poems by Floyd Skloot Staff Pick "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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947 by William Stafford Staff Pick 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) List Price $24.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pocket Poets Series #55: Front Lines: Selected Poems by Jack Hirschman Staff Pick "Poet-warrior Jack Hirschman's is a poetry of witness. Veteran communist and word crafter, Hirschman finds beauty in the struggles of ordinary people to better their lives."... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Trade Paper
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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal Saadawi Staff Pick "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) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quiet American (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene Staff Pick 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #57: The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamu Daaood by Kamau Daaood Staff Pick "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) Your price: $10.75 New - Trade Paper
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Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Karen and Michael Braziller Books) by Nazim Hikmet Staff Pick 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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San Francisco Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Staff Pick "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) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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