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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition
by Ernest Fenollosa  Publisher Comments First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that...
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Open City #26
by Open City Magazine Publisher Comments Open City’s opening credo, announced in an ad in a 1991 issue of The Village Voice calling for submissions, was “Primary sources, nervous voices.” Featuring fiction, poetry, and essays by an exciting array of debut writers and...
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McSweeney's Issue 29
by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments With our biggest line-up in quite a while – fifteen stories from writers like Yannick Murphy, Roddy Doyle, Ben Greenman, and Peter Orner – McSweeney's 29 offers everything a good book should: there is jungle warfare, there are boomerang...
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Borrowed Rooms
by Barbara Pelman Publisher Comments These poems, spare and nuanced, explore the borrowed rooms we inhabit in personal relationships: the temporary homes of marriage and parenting; the personas we carry for a little while and must ultimately abandon. In tight and unsentimental poems...
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Other Colors: Essays and a Story (Vintage International)
by Orhan Pamuk Review “Other Colors is composed of shrewdly arranged occasional pieces, fragments from journals and other miscellany, edited and at times rewritten to form a remarkably cohesive picture of a literary man…Beyond its clever charm and its wise...
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The Best American Essays 2008 (Best American)
by Robert Atwan Synopsis Edited by The New Yorker's much-loved Adam Gopnik, this year's Best American Essays continues the laudable tradition of collecting the finest essays, "judiciously selected from countless publications" (Chicago Tribune), ensuring that the 2008 edition is...
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John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets (Bloom's Classic Critical Views)
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Each title features: - An in-depth critical portrait of an essential writer presented in a historical context - A useful chronology - An introduction by Harold Bloom....
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Silence Fell
by Josephine Dickinson Synopsis Silence Fell marks the American debut of an extraordinary poet from the remote north of England. The poems are set on a sheep farm in the northern mountains and tell the story -- in the form of a modern shepherd's calendar -- of Josephine Dickinson's...
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Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women
by Ambar Past Publisher Comments This book of poems and stark, vivid illustrations is rooted in the female soul of indigenous Mexico. The Tzotzil women of the Chiapas Highlands are the poets and the artists. Ambar Past, who collected the poems and drawings, includes a moving essay about...
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Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle
by Pat Mora Publisher Comments As a Chicana, educator, poet, mother, lecturer, and native of El Paso, Texas, Pat Mora is a denizen of nepantla--a Nahuatl word meaning land in the middle. In her first collection of essays this award-winning writer negotiates the middle land's many...
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Inhabiting Memory: Essays on Memory and Human Rights in the Americas
by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments The relationship between historical or traumatic events and the memories created by them are examined in this selection of essays by writers who have been affected by the social and political upheavals of Latin America during the past four decades...
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Calypso
by Bob Orr Publisher Comments Arranged in four lyrical sections, this collection of poems presents colorful images with a narrative drive and the true cadences of a storyteller. Traveling from Troy and Waiheke to San Francisco and Spain, this variety of verse leads into a discussion...
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The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991
by Bill Morgan Publisher Comments One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg ventured west in 1956 and was introduced to Snyder by Kenneth Rexroth, a mentor to the Beats and the man who knew everyone...
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The Laundromat Essay
by Kyle Buckley Publisher Comments "I know the owner of the laundromat," reflects the narrator of this extended poem, "but can't remember his name (which could be for many reasons)." The poem is then swept up in narrative tangents and detours as the narrator, also nameless, tries to...
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The Treekeeper's Tale
by Pascale Petit Publisher Comments A poet known for her fierce confessional style focuses on her passion for the natural world in this startling collection of vignettes influenced by California's giant redwood trees. These lyrical, resonant, strange, and imaginative poems echo in the...
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Prairie Kaddish
by Isa Milman Synopsis Isa Milman uses historical and personal awakening, and archival sleuthing, to create a kaddish - a Jewish prayer of mourning and commemoration - for a prairie community that now exists only through remembrance. Prairie Kaddish begins with the author's...
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The Maltese Dreambook
by Gabriel Levin Synopsis With Jerusalem as its epicenter, Gabriel Levin's poems explore the Levant, his adopted homeland. On a Greek island, in the desert wastes of southern Jordan, and in Malta (with its Stone Age temples serving as a backdrop to the polyphonic title poem), the...
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In the Mind's Eye: Essays Across the Animate World
by Elizabeth Caroline Dodd Publisher Comments In this collection of exquisite essays, Elizabeth Dodd explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of southern France, the Kansas grasslands, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest. In the Mind’s Eye...
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Conjuring Jesus (Essential Poets)
by Brian Day Publisher Comments Offering a disarmingly fresh picture of Jesus as a mystic and poet, while still closely based on biblical texts, these poems are disruptive yet devotional, startling yet reassuring. They portray Jesus in his tumultuous times as well as moments of...
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Writer's for Relief: An Anthology to Benefit the Bay Area Food Bank
by Davey Beauchamp Synopsis The Writers for Relief anthologies feature collections of short fiction by top talents in the realms of fantasy and science fiction writing. The first and second volumes have brought help to Hurricane Katrina survivors through the Red Cross and the Bay...
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