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You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard Publisher Comments Thirty-four of America's most distinguished fiction writers--including Oscar Hijuelos, John Irving, and Joyce Carol Oates--introduce the short stories that inspired them most.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Poems by Garrison Keillor Publisher Comments Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Granta Book of the American Short Story by Richard Ford Synopsis Fords first short story collection, published in 1992, became the definitive anthology of American short fiction. This new collection features more than 40 stories, including some he regretted overlooking the first time around, as well as many by a new... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2012 by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction by Linda H Peterson Publisher Comments The Norton Reader has introduced millions of writing students to the essay as a genre. First published in 1965, it is still the best-selling thematic reader--and the only thematic reader that also supports a genre-based approach. The Thirteenth Edition... (read more) List Price $71.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart : Poems for Men (92 Edition) by Robert Bly Publisher Comments Boys feel wild; they love their tree houses, their wild spots in the woods, they all want to go down to the river, with Huck, away from domesticating aunts. Boys love to see some wildness in their fathers, to see their fathers dancing or carrying on... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Short Stories of the Masters by Charles Neider Publisher Comments Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions) by American Poetry & Li Publisher Comments Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman... (read more) Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling author David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath with CD (Audio) by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby Publisher Comments Hear the Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath. Includes three free audio CDs.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era by Jeffrey Lamar Coleman Publisher Comments Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Believer Book of Writers Talking To Writers (08 Edition) by Vendela Vida Synopsis This collection of conversations between writers and their mentors includes Zadie Smith with Ian McEwan; Jonathan Lethem with Paul Auster; Adam Thirlwell with Tom Stoppard; Susan Choi with Francisco Goldman; ZZ Packer with Edward P. Jones; and Dave... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction by Margot Singer Publisher Comments Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. This debate over ethics, however, has sidelined... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Publisher Comments "This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history. From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Even though some say that... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by Billy Collins Publisher Comments Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collinss poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Top 500 Poems by William Harmon Publisher Comments Here, for the first time, is our generations' definitive view of the greatest poetry in the English language. This is the story of poetry in English, a collection of the best 500 poems, based not on one critic's choice, not on one poet's choice, but on... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sixty Women Poets by Linda France Publisher Comments A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. This anthology charts the irrepressible growth and flowering of women's poetry in Britain and Ireland from the early 1970s to the 90s. Included are many distinctive female voices, no longer apologetic, but... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology by Beverly Lawn Publisher Comments Economical in both size and price, 40 Short Stories offers a well-chosen array of popular and significant stories, enhanced by unobtrusive but effective editorial features. This volume in Bedford/St. Martins series of Portable Anthologies and Portable... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crossing State Lines by Bob Holman and Carol Muske-Dukes Publisher Comments A collaborative poem about America, from fifty-four of our best poets Crossing State Lines: An American Renga is a poetic relay race across the continent: fifty-four poets responding to ideas of America—and to each other. This is a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Translations by Ted Hughes Publisher Comments “EXPAND[S] OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THIS FASCINATING LITERARY CHARACTER.” —STEVEN RATINER, THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Known (with Philip Larkin) as the most distinctly English of the postwar British poets, Ted Hughes was a... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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