A Worldly Country: New Poems
 Thrill of a Romance It's different when you have hiccups. Everything is-so many glad hands competing for your attention, a scarf, a puff of soot, or just a blast of silence from a radio. What is it? That's for you to learn to your dismay when, at the end ... [... more]
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Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction
The bucolic poetry of Theocritus is the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls and from Hellenistic poetry as a whole. This book ... [... more]
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Winter Tennis
This book is about, among other things, reaching that age, usually thirty to forty, when you suddenly see right through yourself. With Swift, this moment of unobstructed vision is accompanied by a fresh view of others. He casts away youthful 'cool' and ... [... more]
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The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel
Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden from No Tell Motel (www.notellmotel.org), this anthology includes seductive poems by over 80 of today's most discreet poets including Aaron Anstett, Bruce Covey, Catherine Daly, Denise Duhamel, Jill Alexander ... [... more]
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Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004
Nicholas Christopher has been praised as one of America's most important poets by such literary talents as John Ashbery, Charles Simic, James Merrill, and Anthony Hecht. Crossing the Equator collects Christopher's best work from the past three decades ... [... more]
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The Works of Love (Bison Book)
"When I was a boy of eight in the Platte Valley of Nebraska, my father made the first of the many moves that would prove to be of interest to a future writer of fiction. They were east to Chicago, the point on the map where all the lines pointed. ... [... more]
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Let Us Compare Mythologies
Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of print, it is now available exactly as it appeared fifty years ago as one of the four hundred copies published by the McGill Poetry ... [... more]
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Audio, Faber)
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout. [... more]
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Selected Poems
Terrible Translations Finestein's translations are so awful, it is no wonder that few English speakers want to know who Tsvetaeva is. She loses the rhythm, rhyme, literary devices, and everything for which Tsvetaeva's poetry is so loved. The duality of ... [... more]
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George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman": A Study Guide ...
Term paper due tomorrow? Need to bone up for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary work? Turn to "Drama for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by the Gale Group--the world's ... [... more]
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Avenue of Vanishing (Triquarterly)
one of our best poets Since the debut of his first volume, William Olsen has emerged as one of the most important and most eloquent of his generation. Olsen's poems embrace a wide range of experiences and subjects but they are alway marked by his ... [... more]
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The Other Side of Nowhere: Contemporary Coyote Tales
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