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Judas Goat: Poems
Gabrielle Bates · 2023
Dreaming of Dead People
Rosalind Belben · 2025
Scattered Snows, to the North
Carl Phillips · 2024
Three Plays
Federico García Lorca, Michael Dewell · 1993
Bride of Ice
Marina Tsvetaeva · 2023
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Selected Poems [of] Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova · 1969
The Poetry of Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke · 2011
The Half-Finished Heaven Selected Poems
Tomas Tranströmer · 2018
Ishtar
Louise M. Pryke · 2019
Foxglovewise
Ange Mlinko · 2025
Fifty Poems
Boris Pasternak · 1963
Poems
Antonia Pozzi · 2015
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Richard Hugo · 1992
The Unswept Room
Sharon Olds · 2002
Winter Stranger Poems
Jackson Holbert · 2023
Winter Recipes from the Collective
Louise Glück · 2021
Hyperdream
Hélène Cixous · 2009
Decreation Poetry, Essays, Opera
Anne Carson · 2006
The Bell
Iris Murdoch · 2001
Lori & Joe
Amy Arnold · 2023
Extreme Beauty Aesthetics, Politics, Death
James Swearingen, Joanne Cutting-Gray · 2003
Poems of Günter Grass
Penguin Modern European Poets Series
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2014
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
Jacqueline Rose · 1996
Pond
Claire-Louise Bennett · 2023
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 2004
A Lover's Discourse Fragments
Roland Barthes · 1979
Four-Legged Girl
Diane Seuss · 2015
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Vitezslav Nezval · 2005
The Book of All Loves
Agustín Fernández Mallo · 2024
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 2007
Another Country
Baldwin James · 2006
On Beauty and Being Just
Elaine Scarry · 2001
Thunderbird (Wave Books)
Dorothea Lasky · 2012
The Master Letters: Poems
Lucie Brock-Broido · 1995
The Waves (vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Virginia Woolf · 2016
Stay Dead
Natalie Shapero · 2025
Girlbeast
Cecilie Lind, Hazel Evans · 2025
The Apple in the Dark
Clarice Lispector · 1995
Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece<br/><br/>'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall'<br/><br/>Martim, believing that he has committed a murder, flees the city and escapes into the night. Wandering through the vastness of nature he arrives, in a state of fear and wonder, at a remote ranch run by two women. There Martim finds work and, as he labours in the blistering heat of the Brazilian summer, becomes transfigured; remade into something else entirely.<br/><br/>Translated by Benjamin Moser<br/><br/>'The most important Brazilian woman writer of the twentieth century... The richness of The Apple in the Dark defies the explanatory power of any single interpretation' TLS
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Sappho · 2003
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart : Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess
Betty De Shong Meador, Grahn,Judy
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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
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Noelle Kocot · 2001
Images of youthful rebellion, cultural disgust, hyperreal love and visceral superworldly elements abound in this passionate, controlled debut from the New York-based Kocot. Eschewing the pastiche and irony of more elliptical versifiers, Kocot casts her speaker as the renegade, even the vagabond, but with benign intentions peeking through the defiant absurdities: "Your brand of peace disgusts me, do you hear?/ I am the fugitive who drives the stampede/ Of aardvarks across your lawns./ I have come to tip your cows." Free-verse, sestinas, rhyming quatrains and other verse forms are matched throughout by a knotty, provocative turn of mind part Rimbaudian, part Kenneth Koch that mixes darker, often biblical imagery with the above quirky wit. Swift, intense, image-laden poems like "Ontology Train" are, indeed, like modern versions of "The Drunken Boat," but Kocot's poems are usually about relationships, about the heavy burden of love and poetic thought that she shares with her interlocutor, a nameless, mystical "you": "Yet you are concrete/ Somehow; I know, I've heard your bee-like buzzing/ In all the tiny leaves bursting from their sacs to greet / A magical universe..." The sestinas offer a somewhat lighter view, partly because the necessary play of the form, but also because of Kocot's deft zingers: "San Francisco/ Fantasy aside, you have to admit we sucked/ As a couple...." Like Jennifer Moxley and Chris Stoffolino, Kocot has found a language for her emotions that pulls an abundance of memories, post-punk urban metaphors and manic verbal twists into her simultaneously cerebral and energizing universe, "with an atmospheric clarity emblematic/ Of the essential questions blowing here and there/ Like remnants of a foreign language."<br/><br/>—Cahners Business Information, Inc., 2001
The Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington · 2021
An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”
The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927
Anaïs Nin · 2014
Auletris: Erotica
Anais Nin · 2016
Auletris is a recently discovered, previously lost collection of erotica by Anais Nin, consisting of two major sections: "Life in Provincetown" and "Marcel." A drastically cut version of "Marcel" appears in Nin's bestselling Delta of Venus, and "Life in Provincetown" has never been published until now. Written in the early 1940s for a collector at a dollar a page, the erotica was also given to agents to sell far and wide. Auletris was sold to Milton Lubovitsky in 1950; Lubovitsky typed up five copies and sold them under the imprint of Press of the Sunken Eye to private buyers under the table. One of these copies surfaced when it was being offered in an auction, and it was then discovered that this collection had been lost to the public for decades. Once the authorship was verified, it was readied for true publication."Life in Provincetown" is a collection of interwoven stories set in one of Nin's favorite haunts and is populated with bohemian characters who engage in tabooed sexual behavior, all described in Nin's classic poetic prose. "Marcel" is another set of stories set mostly in Paris and is largely autobiographical, with many of the characters and situations taken directly from Nin's diaries. It is three times longer than the version in Delta of Venus and contains many lengthy passages, stories even, that were cut and never before published. Auletris is the first new Anais Nin collection of erotica since Little Birds in 1979.
Small Rain
Garth Greenwell · 2024
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda · 2012
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara · 1995
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov · 1995
Certain Magical Acts (Penguin Poets)
Alice Notley · 2016
The World Falls Away (Pitt Poetry Series)
Wanda Coleman · 2011
blud
Rachel McKibbens · 2018
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Sonia Sanchez · 2012
A Monkey at the Window: Selected Poems
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi · 2016
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness (New Directions Paperbook)
Bob Kaufman · 1965
Agua Viva
Clarice Lispector · 2022
Sight Map: Poems
Brian Teare · 2009
Unbroken Poetry II: Poésie ininterrompue II (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 5)
Paul Éluard · 1996
Beauty
James Kirwan · 1999
James Kirwan provides both a lucid and concise history of the concept of beauty as a distinct aesthetic experience (marginalized by the rise of philosophical aesthetics in the twentieth century), and offers a new and persuasive answer to the age-old question of what beauty is; an answer that, placing the responsibility for beauty firmly with the eye of the beholder, explains what it is in this "eye" that gives rise to beauty.
In Cannon Cave
Carole Glasser Langille · 1997
The Sluts
Dennis Cooper · 2005
Swell
Maria Ferguson · 2025
Practical Water (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Brenda Hillman · 2012
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar · 2024
Where Now: New and Selected Poems
Laura Kasischke · 2021
Endymion
John Keats · 2022
Modern Poetry
Diane Seuss · 2024
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
Penman, Ian
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda · 2012
A Hunger: Poems
Lucie Brock-Broido · 1988
Wrong Norma
Anne Carson · 2024
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Anne Carson · 2000
The Beginning Place
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1980
Sappho’s Gymnasium
Olga Broumas & T. Begley
Shadow of Sirius
W. S. Merwin · 2009
Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
William Bronk, Henry Weinfield · 1995
Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004
Czeslaw Milosz · 2014
Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth
Yulia Ustinova · 2009
How Beautiful the Beloved
Gregory Orr · 2009
The Book Against Death
Elias Canetti · 2024
<p>The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, Canetti examines the inevitable demise of all beings--from the ant, the fish, and the worm to an executioner, a court painter, and a Greek god--while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during war and the willingness of the despot to wield death as power. Interspersed with material from philosophers and writers such as Goethe, Walter Benjamin, and Robert Walser, The Book Against Death is ultimately a moving affirmation of the value of life itself. <br></p> <p>Canetti famously refused to die before he'd read all his obituaries and corrected them.</p> <p>"I accept no death."--Elias Canetti (1905-1994)</p>
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Jean Valentine · 2004
Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
Gregory Orr · 2005
Bright Existence (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Brenda Hillman · 2012
Mortal Trash: Poems
Kim Addonizio · 2017
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Anne Carson · 2002
<i>The Beauty Of The Husband </i>is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.<br><br>This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–29 “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects–love–and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.
Death Tractates (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Brenda Hillman · 2012
Glass, Irony and God (New Directions Paperbook)
Anne Carson · 1995
RED DOC>
Anne Carson · 2013
My Death
Lisa Tuttle · 2023
Cheri and the Last of Cheri
Colette · 2001
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Anne Carson · 2000
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
Clarice Lispector · 2022
Alphabetical Diaries
Sheila Heti · 2024
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
It Blows You Hollow (Inland Seas)
Diane Seuss · 2020
The Trees Witness Everything
Victoria Chang · 2022
A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life’s hardest questions: how to let go. In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called “wakas,” each poem is shaped by pattern and count. This highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets including W.S. Merwin, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past and present in complex dialogue. Chang depicts the smooth, melancholic isolation of the mind while reaching outward to name―with reverence, economy, and whimsy―the ache of wanting, the hawk and its shadow, our human urge to hide the minute beneath the light.
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 2023
2023 Reprint of the 1927 edition. The subject of this brilliant novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides. "There are dozens of passages in which the secret relations of men and women, especially women, to the trifling events of life are rendered with convincing and elaborate subtlety. To have written them is to have surpassed, in this one respect, almost every contemporary novelist." - The Saturday Review "Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realization of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition. - New York Times "To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time." -Margaret Drabble "Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human war, mortality, family, love. If you're like me you'll come back to this book often, always astounded, always moved, always refreshed." -Rick Moody "[Woolf's] people are astoundingly real...The tragic futility, the absurdity, the pathetic beauty, of life-we experience all of this in our sharing of seven hours of Mrs. Ramsay's wasted or not wasted existence. We have seen, through her, the world." -Conrad Aiken
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson · 1998
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.<br/><br/>Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.<br/><br/>A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR<br/>National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist<br/><br/>"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today." --Michael Ondaatje<br/><br/>"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro<br/><br/>"A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." --The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." --The Village Voice
Shy: A Novel
Max Porter · 2023
A Silent Language
Jon Fosse · 2024
<p>'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,' says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. When he writes, Fosse explains, he listens for texts that exist somewhere outside of himself in order to transcribe them before they disappear. With reverence and humility, Fosse traces his relationship to writing and celebrates the capacity of language to embrace the mystery, complexity and existential uncertainty of the human experience. 'It is only in the silence that you can hear God's voice,' he says, offering a key to his beloved works of drama and fiction. 'Maybe.'</p>
The Lover
Marguerite Duras · 1998
<p>An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, <i>The Lover</i> has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.<br><br>Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France’s colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.<br><br>Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of <i>The Lover</i> includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective—that of a visitor to Vietnam today.<br><br><i>(With an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.)</i></p>
Hour of the Star (Penguin Modern Classics)
Clarice Lispector · 2015
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.
Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 2019
Once described as the 'longest and most charming love-letter in literature', the Virginia Woolf's Orlando is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert in Penguin Classics. Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness.
The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O''Hara
James Schuyler · 2020
<I>Pearl Without Price, </I><br> <I>First the worst: your five dollar check bounced. N’importe. I made it good, and you can pay me back when . . . the primroses come back to 49th Street.</I><br> <I> </I><br>Poet Mark Ford has described the letters of James Schuyler as “witty, graceful, sophisticated, and gossipy.” Particularly poignant are these Schuyler letters to fellow poet Frank O’Hara. Entertaining and transcendently poetic, they are the portrait of a friendship between two great New York School poets.
Arrangements in Blue
· 2023
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Joni Mitchell’s seminal album Blue, celebrated British poet Amy Key sets out to examine the volatile scales of romantic feeling as she has encountered them: from the low notes of loss and unfulfilled desire—punctuated by sharp, discordant feelings of jealousy and regret—to the deep harmony of friendship and the highs defined by sexual attraction and self-realization. Key celebrates the bliss of sleeping in an empty bed, the intimate energy required for cooking solo, and the transformative power of traveling alone—especially to the sea. Written with the exquisite finesse of a poet, this bold manual for navigating life alone provides an alternative perspective on a shared human experience so rarely explored.
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2016
The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul. 'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian
