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 | Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda Product# 458505193 Selling for $15 "'Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon' features nearly 50 of Neruda's poems and brings them to life for a whole new generation of readers. Unlike most other anthologies of his work, this edition is bilingual, with Mitchell's translation faced by Neruda's original Spanish-language work." |
 | Selected Short Fiction Product# 460450734 Selling for $10 "Dickens's sense of comedy and concern with the human psyche are evident in tales of the supernatural, impressionistic sketches, and dramatic monologues" |
 | SELECTED POEMS Product# 460543353 Selling for $12 Selections from three earlier volumes reflect the distinguished poet's response to the realities of modern life |
 | Desire Reclining Product# 460544580 Selling for $16 This collection of prose lyrics is a series of fugal parables about the forms faith takes. These poems point to the forms of faith as both genius and as the fount of much of the world's anguish. |
 | Good Poems Product# 460544581 Selling for $16 "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 'utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m.' Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not." |
| SELECTED POEMS Product# 460547047 Selling for $12 Selections from three earlier volumes reflect the distinguished poet's response to the realities of modern life |
| Desire Reclining Product# 460551822 Selling for $16 This collection of prose lyrics is a series of fugal parables about the forms faith takes. These poems point to the forms of faith as both genius and as the fount of much of the world's anguish. |
| Good Poems Product# 460551823 Selling for $16 "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 'utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m.' Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not." |
 | Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence Product# 460552683 Selling for $7 "Woolf s response to parties as heightened social occasions is demonstrated in her great novel Mrs. Dalloway. The party on which it focuses spilled over into these seven stories, written during the same period. They are here published in this unified sequence for the first time. Edited and with an Introduction by Stella McNichol." |
 | Brief Encounters With Che Guevara: Stories Product# 460678707 Selling for $24.95 "A debut anthology of short fiction by an O. Henry- and Pushcart Prize-winning author features a goup of protagonists caught in the middle of the political and social upheaval surrounding them, in such works as 'Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera,' 'The Good Ones Are Already Taken,' and 'The Lion's Mouth.' Reader's Guide available. 30,000 first printing." |
 | Diary of a Madman and Other Stories Product# 460679868 Selling for $9.95 "Illuminates the Russian writer's thoughts on madness, bureaucracy, and illusion in these five tales" |
 | After the Plague: Stories Product# 460679924 Selling for $14 The sixth collection of short stories by the award-winning author of World's End displays his remarkable gift for storytelling as well as his wide-ranging interests in everything from abortion doctors to air rage. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. |
 | Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics Product# 460680261 Selling for $14 "Published in 1919 when Lewis was only twenty, these early poems give an insight into the author's youthful agnosticism. The poems are written in various metrical forms, but are unified by a central idea, expressing his conviction that nature was malevolent and beauty the only true spirituality. Preface by Walter Hooper." |
 | Shakespeare's Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint Product# 460680278 Selling for $13.95 "Shakespeare's Sonnets is the most famous collection of love poems in the English language. Beautiful, poignant, and intriguing, they describe the poet's passionate friendship with a young man, his friend's seduction by the poet's own mistress, his friend's relationship with a rival poet, and most famously, Shakespeare's humiliated infatuation with the Dark Lady, 'a woman colored ill, ' who, far from being the marble-hearted femme fatale of fashionable sonnet sequences, is 'the bay where all men ride.' These 154 poems have aroused speculation ever since they were written: who are the poet's handsome friend, his rival, and the Dark Lady? Who is the mysterious Mr. W. H., 'the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets, ' to whom the publisher dedicated them? Despite much labored study on the subject, the poems have kept their secrets. The poems are presented here, with an informative introduction and in a freshly edited text along with A Lover's Complaint and little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets." |
 | All Aunt Hagar's Children Product# 460681476 Selling for $25.95 "A collection of fourteen short stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World is set in the Washington, D.C., community of the prize-winning novel, Lost in the City, and follows morally complex characters caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations of modern city life. 150,000 first printing." |
 | Wives & Lovers: Three Short Novels Product# 460681542 Selling for $12.95 "Three short novels by an acclaimed fiction writer illuminate the intricacies of love and human relationships in an anthology that includes Spirits, Rare and Endangered Species, and the previously unpublished Requisite Kindness, in which a man struggles to come to terms with a life of treating women badly. Reader's Guide available. Original." |
 | My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems Product# 460681880 Selling for $14.95 "A volume of forty-eight new works by the author of The Night Abraham Called to the Stars features pieces of an intricate and personal nature and follows such topics as the compositions of Bach, the suffering of war, and the intensity of Flamenco singers. Reprint." |
 | The Collected Poems, 1956-1998 Product# 460681961 Selling for $34.95 "A new translation of poetic works by the Polish Nobel Prize candidate includes pieces from his entire body of work, from String of Light to Epilogue of the Storm, in a volume that offers insight into his perspectives on such topics as imagination, art, and exile." |
 | Assorted Fire Events: Stories Product# 460682091 Selling for $13.95 "A new collection of short stories by the 1999 Pushcart Prize winner introduces readers to a colorful cast of characters as they struggle with personal epiphanies and moments of fate. Reader's Guide available. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Reprint. 10,000 first printing." |
 | Mornings Like This: Found Poems Product# 460682208 Selling for $12.95 "In 'Mornings Like This,' Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old--and often odd--books, and composes ironic poems--some serious, some light--on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new." |
 | In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories Product# 460682294 Selling for $13.95 "A collection of thirteen connected short tales traces the multi-generational experiences of the women in the family of Bobbie Kaplowitz of 1950s Brooklyn, in a volume that explores such themes as identity, infidelity, and the inspiring or tormenting qualities of missed opportunities. By the author of The Book Borrower. Reprint. 15,000 first printing." |
 | Conamara Blues: Poems Product# 460682333 Selling for $13.95 "A new collection of works by an internationally respected poet and author of Anam Cara focuses on the beautiful and evocative countryside of Ireland's Conamara, capturing the moving natural rhythms of the landscape and connecting them with the human heart. Reprint. 10,000 first printing." |
 | The John Fante Reader Product# 460682346 Selling for $14.95 "It's not every day that a writer, almost unheard of in his lifetime, emerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again, there aren't many writers with such irrepressible genius as John Fante. 'The John Fante Reader is the important next step in the reintroduction of this influential author to modern audiences. Combining excerpts from his novels and stories, as well as his never-before-published letters, this collection is the perfect primer on the work of a writer -- underappreciated in his time -- who is finally taking his place in the pantheon of twentieth-century American writers." |
 | Acolytes Product# 460682576 Selling for $16.95 "A new collection of eighty poetic works by the award-winning author of Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea features intimate and spare language that shares the writer's perspectives on such subjects as her family, the deaths of heroes, and the Hurricane Katrina disaster." |
 | Gulliver's Travels Product# 460683886 Selling for $14.52 Introduction and Commentaries by Richard Quintana |
 | Crown of Weeds Product# 460686753 Selling for $20 "An award-winning poet explores language and love in a powerful, diverse collection of poetry. Amy Gertsler's latest collection engages the reader with a sensibility that is by turns extravagant, wistful, erudite, playful, and profound. Love lies in wait in these poems, populated with such as deserters from circuses, recipes, and the scent of geraniums. Gerstler twines language into sublime confections of elegance and silliness, seeking support between progress and pathology." |
 | Void of Course: Poems 1994-1997 Product# 460686754 Selling for $14 "From the bestselling author of 'The Basketball Diaries', 'Void of Course' is a collection of poetry that vibrates with the details of everyday city life." |
| After the Plague: Stories Product# 460686847 Selling for $14 The sixth collection of short stories by the award-winning author of World's End displays his remarkable gift for storytelling as well as his wide-ranging interests in everything from abortion doctors to air rage. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. |
| Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics Product# 460687695 Selling for $14 "Published in 1919 when Lewis was only twenty, these early poems give an insight into the author's youthful agnosticism. The poems are written in various metrical forms, but are unified by a central idea, expressing his conviction that nature was malevolent and beauty the only true spirituality. Preface by Walter Hooper." |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint Product# 460687787 Selling for $13.95 "Shakespeare's Sonnets is the most famous collection of love poems in the English language. Beautiful, poignant, and intriguing, they describe the poet's passionate friendship with a young man, his friend's seduction by the poet's own mistress, his friend's relationship with a rival poet, and most famously, Shakespeare's humiliated infatuation with the Dark Lady, 'a woman colored ill, ' who, far from being the marble-hearted femme fatale of fashionable sonnet sequences, is 'the bay where all men ride.' These 154 poems have aroused speculation ever since they were written: who are the poet's handsome friend, his rival, and the Dark Lady? Who is the mysterious Mr. W. H., 'the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets, ' to whom the publisher dedicated them? Despite much labored study on the subject, the poems have kept their secrets. The poems are presented here, with an informative introduction and in a freshly edited text along with A Lover's Complaint and little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets." |
 | The Major Works Product# 460687793 Selling for $18.95 "Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors is assured. This freshly edited collection--the fullest one-volume selection in English--includes all but one of the longer poems, from Queen Mab onwards, in their entirety. Only Laon and Cythna is excerpted, in a generous selection. As well as works such as Prometheus Unbound, The Mask of Anarchy, and Adonais, the volume includes a wide range of Shelley's shorter poems and much of his major prose, including A Defence of Poetry and almost all of A Philosophical View of Reform. Shelley emerges from these pages as a passionate and eloquent opponent of tyranny and a champion of human possibility." |
 | Selected Poems Product# 460687835 Selling for $13.95 "Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. This bilingual edition provides the most comprehensive selection of his poetry yet, offering some 170 poems in lively and fresh translations. It also offers a lucid introduction which illuminates Verlaine's poetic form within the context of French Impressionism and the poetry of sensation." |
 | Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays Product# 460765456 Selling for $25 "Here is a collection of this witty and irreverent author's works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and other stories and essays." |
 | The New Oxford Book of American Verse Product# 460765883 Selling for $55 "An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries" |
 | Enough Rope: Collected Stories Product# 460766220 Selling for $17.95 "The complete collection of short stories, including 11 new stories, from 'New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block." |
 | The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems Product# 460766240 Selling for $13.95 "9 bad boys Cé line will bat lead-off, Shostakovich is in the second spot, Dostoevsky should hit 3rd, Beethoven will definitely bat clean-up, Jeffers is in the 5th spot, Dreiser can hit 6th and batting 7th let's have Boccaccio and 8th the catcher: Hemingway. the pitcher? hell, give me the fucking ball." |
 | SELECTED POEMS 1947-1995 Product# 460766418 Selling for $18 "Assembled by Allen Ginsberg, 'Selected Poems 1947-1995 is the definitive collection of the best works of one of the most influential and revolutionary poets of the twentieth century. Allen Ginsberg, famous for helping catalyze the Beat Generation, wrote poetry for more than fifty years. His innovative verse and provocative attitudes of spiritual, political, and sexual liberation inspired countless poets, musicians, and visual and performance artists worldwide, and helped shape several generations' views of the world. 'Selected Poems 1947-1995 commemorates Ginsberg's brilliant career as one of America's most distinguished poets. Here are well-known masterpieces such as the lyric 'Howl' and the narrative 'Kaddish' -- classic works of American literature -- as well as more recent gems, including the long dream poem 'White Shroud,' the visionary 'After Lalon,' and the political rock lyric 'The Ballad of the Skeletons,' a song he recorded in 1996 with a stellar band that included Philip Glass, Lenny Kaye, and Paul McCartney." |
| Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays Product# 460766447 Selling for $25 "Here is a collection of this witty and irreverent author's works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and other stories and essays." |
 | Dig Safe Product# 460767676 Selling for $16 "A collection of poems considering the themes of interconnection, ancestry, and movement includes 'The Lost City,' 'Mine and Not Mine,' 'The Art of the Possible,' and 'Dweller.'" |
| The New Oxford Book of American Verse Product# 460768032 Selling for $55 "An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries" |