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John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
Oxford University Press, UK 1989; US$ 8.99Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. - ;Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as... more...
Frost: Poems
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 13.50rom one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great. more...
Leaves of Grass
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 5.95Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and... more...
Ceiling of Sticks
University of Nebraska Press 2010; US$ 17.95Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Shane Books collection, Ceiling of Sticks, is a powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics. It bears elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. Books poems carry us to Uganda, Ghana, Mali, Trinidad, and Canadas west coast; from a religious sacrifice... more...
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.95"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
L. Frank Baum
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 7.99Since it was first introduced over a hundred years ago in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , L. Frank Baum's world of Oz has become one of the most enduring and beloved creations in children's literature. It has influenced numerous prominent writers and intellectuals, and become a lasting part of the culture itself. L. Frank Baum was born in 1856... more...
Neruda and Vallejo
Beacon Press 1993; US$ 20.00"Chilean Pablo Neruda is Latin America's greatest poet and one of the finest ever to have written in the Spanish language. The Peruvian poet, Cesar Vallejo, part Indian and born in a mining village, ranks not far below Neruda. Robert Bly is one of America's foremost poets, and a translator of uncommon brilliance. The combination makes for a priceless... more...
Stag's Leap
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.95In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love?s sight; the... more...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author traces her life from her early childhood and adolescence and explores her marriage. She draws a picture... more...
Complete Poems
Carcanet 2012; US$ 27.64Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. It includes all the poems published in the first... more...









