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Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature)
by Anne Carson  
Powells.com Staff Pick Beginning with Sappho's description of Eros as "sweetbitter," Anne Carson traces the treatment and understanding of Eros in philosophy and literature, both classical and contemporary. Written in accessible, smart, and lyrical prose, Eros the...
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Anne Carson
Powells.com Staff Pick Autobiography of Red is the story of Geryon, a winged red monster slain by Herakles, as well as a young boy, tormented by his family, who writes his life story at the age of five. It is both an elaborate re-creation of ancient Greek myth and a...
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Behind My Eyes: Poems with CD (Audio)
by Li-Young Lee
Powells.com Staff Pick Li-Young Lee has the rare gift of being able to write about the personal and the communal in a humble and truthful voice that lends his poems great authority and reach. Behind My Eyes, his fourth book, demonstrates again his ability to allow the...
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Twenty Questions
by Alison Clement
Powells.com Staff Pick June's close connection to a murder in her town becomes an obsession that leads her into an intimate and increasingly deceptive relationship with the dead woman's child and brother, forcing her to confront her own marriage and past. Nominated for the...
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Nightwood - With New Preface (06 Edition)
by Djuna Barnes
Powells.com Staff Pick There's no denying that Nightwood is a demanding text. In her preface, Jeanette Wintersone aptly writes of Djuna Barnes' prose: "You can slide into it, because the prose has a narcotic quality, but you can't slide over it." When given the attention it...
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Madeleine Is Sleeping (05 Edition)
by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Powells.com Staff Pick A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol: these are all characters in Sarah Shun Li Bynum's marvelous gem of a novel....
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
Powells.com Staff Pick Pale Fire consists of a long, elegiac poem written by John Shade and a rambling commentary on the poem produced by a Professor Charles Kinbote. Shade's poem is a touching, emotional work portraying the poet's attempt to understand and confront death....
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Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
Powells.com Staff Pick Yasunari Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories is a collection of very short stories Kawabata wrote throughout his career, in which he claimed the essence of his art was to be found. Ephemeral and fantastical while grounded in the everyday, these stories...
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Circadian (Penguin Poets)
by Joanna Klink
Powells.com Staff Pick Joanna Klink's new book, Circadian, is a wonderful exploration of inner and outer landscapes, speaking to the underlying rhythm that connects us, even in the most solitary moments, to the world around us. Klink's poems always seem to have a meditative...
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Habit of Being : Letters of Flannery O'connor (79 Edition)
by Flannery Oconnor
Powells.com Staff Pick "I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters," writes Sally Fitzgerald in her introduction to The Habit of Being. This extensive collection of...
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Elegy: Poems
by Mary Jo Bang
Powells.com Staff Pick To write a single poem about grief and loss without slipping into sentimentality or self-pity is a rare achievement. To write a book of poems that not only avoids these pitfalls but demonstrates a brave loyalty to the truth is Mary Jo Bang's Elegy...
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Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry
by Louise Gluck
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