The whole of The Catcher in the Rye is in the Oxford English Dictionary, waiting to be unscrambled, and so are all the novels of our past, present, and immediate future.
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Celebrated poet and author of Can Poetry Matter? offers another bold
and insightful collection of essays on literature's changing place in
contemporary culture.
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Saskia Hamilton, author of As for Dream and editor of The Letters of Robert Lowell, explores “where the pull of reverie becomes palpable and eerily seductive” (Poetry).
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"Natasha Trethewey's book puts women's work, and, in particular, black
women's work, the hard unpretty background music of our survival, in
its proper perspective. For all her meticulous control and subtle
perception, this is a revolutionary book that cuts right through to the
deepest places in the soul." —Toi Derricotte
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In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine
explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.
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"An absolutely refreshing compound of playfulness and depth. . . .
There's no warmed-over theory on this menu, and no guilt casserole
either: it's an unabashedly spicy book. But if one is seduced into the
book by the wildness of its flavors, one finishes by loving its
substance." —Heather McHugh
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Winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets
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"A masterful memoir... Early Morning would be a rare and
exceptional book in any season, any year. Coming as it does in a time
of national crisis, it is needed in the same way victims of scurvy and
pellagra need vitamins." —Bloomsbury Review
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" Eat Quite Everything You See is, quite simply, a feast." —Alice Fulton
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*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award*
A New York Times Notable Book
"Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart—the poems that make up Elegy break mine. These poems are astonishing—here is fierce, controlled abandon, here is one of our finest poets utterly in the moment, yet the moment is unbearable. “There is no waking from death,” Bang writes, and yet each of these poems is fully alive.” —Nick Flynn
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**FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD**
“Ravenous prose…a literary tour de force.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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The remarkable discovery of Landis Everson, first winner of the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award.
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The poems in Except by Nature are full of the riches and the
risks, the words and the contemplations of the earth, and the place of
the human within those realms." —Pattiann Rogers
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"John Haines is a master writer, as we have known for years. Now this
book reveals more: a range of intelligence and affection such that I
cannot imagine any reader being unmoved by them. It is a great and
splendid book." —Hayden Carruth
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"This book shows all the vital signs of genius. In Famous Builder
Paul Lisicky asks the tragic American question: who are you if you've
recreated yourself? And he answers it: you are alone, vulnerable, and
fully loaded." —Edmund White
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"This book shows all the vital signs of genius. In Famous Builder
Paul Lisicky asks the tragic American question: who are you if you've
recreated yourself? And he answers it: you are alone, vulnerable, and
fully loaded." —Edmund White
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"This engaging book will delight and challenge readers of poetry, but
it also offers serious pleasure to anyone who loves language." —Mark Doty
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“A book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.” —The Daily Telegraph
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"Searle's bold, beautiful book reaches right past the sensationalism of
a love triangle to offer us an intense and moving portrait of the
different ways people can connect." —Booklist
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"Searle's bold, beautiful book reaches right past the sensationalism of
a love triangle to offer us an intense and moving portrait of the
different ways people can connect." —Booklist
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In this wickedly funny novel, Percival Everett revisits the age-old Dionysos myth.
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"Phillips is a poet unafraid to address the oldest lyric concerns: how
to sing the beloved, how to sing his passing, how to honor the unruly,
demanding ethic of love. His poems are acts of attention; their
exquisite observations render the world a space for epiphanic
encounter." —Chicago Tribune
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"These poems break open the heart, so we can weep in compassion for all
our lives. Fred Marchant teaches and awakens the soul. The reader will
finish Full Moon Boat an enlightened being." —Maxine Hong Kingston
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"What begins as something of a ghost story, a shaggy-menorah story,
winds up being a profound meditation on human hauntedness, the
inevitability of ghostliness and grief. This is a beautiful, wise, and
enormously moving novel." —David Shields
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"I suspect it will be some months before I have to stop saying that Glyph is the smartest and funniest novel I've read this century." —LA Weekly
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"Anyone who really wants to know the answer to the question,"Can poetry matter?"
will find that The Gods of Winter is full of answers." —Thomas D'Evelyn, The Christian Science Monitor
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"A wonderful story collection, so brilliantly vivid, it is like a trip
to this pocket of the world so steeped in history and folklore. You can
hear the surf and smell the cut bait. And you can enter the lives of a
host of colorful characters, each expressing his or her own kind of
longing as well as a connection to this lush place." —Jill McCorkle
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"The poems of Tomas Transtromer are points of entry 'upward into/the
depths' of an imagination, a spirit that is regeneratively inventive,
capacious, unillusioned, undaunted, admirable." —The New York Times Book Review
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“In clear, charming prose, novelist Boswell delivers a satisfying exploration of the craft of writing fiction.” —Publishers Weekly
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"Here is an essayist who fears nothing." —Andrei Codrescu
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