"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,
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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
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"What begins as something of a ghost story, a shaggy-menorah story,
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inevitability of ghostliness and grief. This is a beautiful, wise, and
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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
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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,
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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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"Wonderfully engrossing and haunting...a timely look at violence,
pathology, and the intersection of survival and redemption. Highly
recommended." —Library Journal, starred review
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“The prodigiously talented Jeffrey Renard Allen is without question one of our most important writers. His novel, Rails Under My Back, kicked ass, and these tough beautiful stories are a gift. You cannot finish this collection without being dazzled by Allen’s manifold talents.”
—Junot Diaz
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“I found A House at the Edge of Tears stunning and
provocative, compelling and haunting. Vénus Khoury-Ghata has
weaved like a lace maker the story of her brother, herself, her family,
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" The House of Widows is a dazzling novel, rich with fascinating characters, whose search for love and truth carries them from country to country, uncovering terrible secrets, and in the course of their journey revealing much about the history of the last half-century.” —Howard Zinn
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"A rich and compelling rip-off of Joyce's Ulysses. . . . It takes chuzpah to attempt a story like this . . . Kitchen succeeds
wonderfully." —Kirkus Reviews
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"Kenyon writes prose the way she writes poetry, turning simple or
frankly unbeautiful things sideways and inviting us to see what they
offer us to love." —The New Yorker
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Brenda Ueland's best-selling classic book on how to write, with a new introduction by NPR's Andrei Codrescu.
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A new and resplendent collection by Linda Gregg, whose poems “have the elegance
of Greek statuary and the good-humored poise of haiku.” —Poetry
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"Gioia deserves our praise for keeping the lyric impulse alive and well." —American Book Review
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A witty and fiercely original book about poetry, the body, and the life
of the artist by a poet whose writing "refuses to cut emotional corners
and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution" (Seamus Heaney).
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The newest edition of an essential Holocaust love story
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Selected by the Poetry Foundation from more than 1,600 submissions, The King’s Question is the winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, which recognizes an American poet over the age of fifty who has yet to publish a book of poetry.
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"A compelling and often hilarious dissection of narcissism in our time." —San Francisco Chronicle
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Albert Goldbarth's career-spanning signature style showcased in a new volume, his first retrospective in 14 years.
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The U.S. publication of the latest collection by Don Paterson, winner
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Eliot Prize
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“Original and beautifully written....Her journey is winding, but it ends at an important place for both reader and writer.” —Publishers Weekly
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“ Lawnboy is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty.” —Michael Cunningham
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"These are intelligent, perfectly honed poems...deliberately low-key,
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The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James
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—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
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“A fiercely lyrical portrait of a father and son’s deeply scarred history. . . A Lie About My Father achieves an aching grace through his deeply reflective honesty about the huge untruths that bound him to his rage-prone working-class Scottish dad.” —Elle
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“Jim Moore writes of history, of love, of pain, of the intimate revelations of a consciousness alive to itself.” —C. K. Williams
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