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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
by Roland Barthes
Staff Pick
This is a book best read immediately after the end of an intimate relationship. Devoid of sentimentality, it is a meditation of a lover when alone. Written in fragments, the overriding theme is that the lover, I, never absolutely, truly sees the beloved,... (read more)

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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by Thomas Lynch
Staff Pick
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The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa
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Annie Oakley's Girl
by Rebecca Brown
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The Last Nostalgia: Poems, 1982-1990
by Joe Bolton
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This is a collection of the work of a poet who committed suicide at twenty-eight, posthumously edited by his mentor Donald Justice. Loss marks these poems: Still, in the soft metallic resonance of twilight, The closest thing you have left to a soul Is... (read more)

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The End of Youth
by Rebecca Brown
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Yale Series of Younger Poets #0072: Beginning with O
by Olga Broumas
Staff Pick
Winner of the 72nd Yale Younger Award, this is a lyrical collection bursting with eroticism. In it Broumas recasts figures of Greek myth (Artemis, Demeter, Calypso, Circe, others) and rewrites modern fairy tales (Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast... (read more)

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Because the Brain Can Be Talked Into Anything: Poems
by Jan Richman
Staff Pick
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