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“michael t young”

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  • The Infinite Doctrine of Water

    by Michael T. Young ...
    Series series Terrapin Poetry Series
    The gorgeous poems of Michael T. Young’s The Infinite Doctrine of Water offer the rewards of deep reflection. The poet’s sharp eye and attentive ear capture the delicate light and shadow of urban life and personal memory. New York and Jersey City provide the backdrop for subtle yet incisive meditations, as when “Devotional” portrays the Belt Parkway’s approach to the Verrazano Bridge through a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Guest Cat

    by Takashi Hiraide ...
    Translated by Eric Selland ...
    A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple’s life in TokyoA bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Tennis Court Oath

    A Book of Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Program
    John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their ... Read more

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  • Fire to Fire

    New and Selected Poems

    by Mark Doty ...
    “Fire to Fire should solidify Doty’s position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almost unavoidable chance of transcendence.” — Publishers WeeklyA landmark collection of new and published works by one of our finest poets that is a testament to the clarity and thoughtful lyricism of his ... Read more

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  • Bender

    New and Selected Poems

    by Dean Young ...
    "In Young's work, the big essential questions-mortality, identity, the meaning of life-aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."-Toronto Star"Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as in Young's hilarious and cautionary poems."-BooklistBender gathers a generous selection of new work along with treasure from Dean Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Of All That Ends

    by Günter Grass ...
    "A final book like no other" from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Tin Drum: poetry and meditations on writing, aging, and living until the end ( The Irish Times).In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, Günter Grass weaves his life's reflections together into a witty and elegiac swansong: love letters, soliloquies, jealous musings, social satire, and moments of happiness ... Read more

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  • On Looking

    Essays

    by Lia Purpura ...
    “These pieces are not so much essays as prose poems, lyrical hymns to beauty and aesthetics.” —Publishers WeeklyLia Purpura’s daring new book of lyric essays, On Looking, is concerned with the aesthetics and ethics of seeing. In these elegantly wrought meditations, patterns and meanings emerge from confusion, the commonplace grows strange and complex, beauty reveals its flaws, and even the most ... Read more

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  • The Rural Life

    by Verlyn Klinkenborg ...
    The former member of the New York Times editorial board offers a collection of essays that illuminate the beauty of the American landscape.With an eloquence unmatched by any other living writer, Verlyn Klinkenborg observes the juncture at which our lives and the natural world intersect. His yearlong meditation on the rigors and wonders of country life—encompassing memories of his family's Iowa ... Read more

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  • The Hunger Moon

    New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010

    by Marge Piercy ...
    This new gathering of Marge Piercy’s poems—energetic, funny, political, full of vitality—brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982.Here are poems that chart the milestone events and fierce passions of her middle years: the death of her mother, whom we meet first as a young woman, “awkwardly lovely, her face / pure as a single trill perfectly / ... Read more

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  • alphabet

    by Inger Christensen ...
    Translated by Susanna Nied ...
    A startling and gorgeous work by Denmark's most admired poet finally available in English translation.Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet. Her award-winning alphabet is based ... Read more

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  • On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."-Booklist"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sanskrit of the Body

    by W. B. Keckler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    In this mesmerizing debut collection, chosen by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series, we’re witness to an expansive travelogue of the human spirit that moves throughtfully through multiples ages, cultures, and beings. Each poem explores in depth, through pensive, evocative images, aspects of the human condition and their place within the rich continuum of animal existence. W.B. Keckler ... Read more

    $15.99 USD