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"Fanny Howe is a sly, wicked poet, always shifting between the social,
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"An enjoyable read, without a dull page." —Kirkus Reviews
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"A provocative collection of 19 edgy essays that reflect 19 unique
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"The author’s writing is
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"Her words, with their quiet, rapt force, their pensiveness and wit,
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THE NOVEL THAT IS STEALING PRIZES, SALES, AND HEARTS ACROSS THE WORLD
With over 230,000 copies sold worldwide and 70 weeks spent on the Norwegian bestseller list, Per Petterson's heartfelt and unforgettable novel makes its U.S. debut.
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"Written chiefly from time living in the Alaskan heartland, the
frontier of elements, weather, and survival figure prominently in these
poems. This is a collection of poetry that transcends its pages." —Harvard Review
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"You may never again see the American West in quite the same way if you
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“Each of the four sections of this book is punctuated by Burt’s
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"The lyric sounding of human feeling against desire, the natural world
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In this brilliant fourth collection, foreboding fields and roaming
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"As intimate as a seven-drink conversation, as compulsive as a pocket
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"Deeply felt and bitingly precise. The author's dual professions of
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Now available in paperback: The June 2005 Booksense Pick that The New Yorker calls "impossible to resist."
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" A Postcard Memoir is the kind of book I'd secretly like to slip into my friends' back pockets,
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"Peacock's worthy troupe of articulate contributors provocatively
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An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetry
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"To leave Rainy Lake is to be left with 'the lingering smell of lake
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“Birkerts on reading fiction is like M.F.K. Fisher on eating or Norman Maclean on fly casting. He makes you want to go do it.” —Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker
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