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By: Baxter, Charles
Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
$17.00PaperbackRead moreSearching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.
Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the Hou- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450917
- Language: English
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By: Revell, Donald
The Art of Attention: A Poet’s Eye
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discuss
- Series: Art Of… (Revell)
- Author: Revell, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974740
- Language: English
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By: Mao, Sally Wen
Oculus: Poems
$16.00PaperbackRead moreFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY
A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle–starring the film legend Anna May Wong In Oculus, Sally Wen Ma- Author: Mao, Sally Wen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978258
- Language: English
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By: Doty, Mark
The Art of Description: World Into Word
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartIt sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see, Mark Doty begins. But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very b
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1555975631
- Language: English
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By: Schwartz, Claire
Civil Service: Poems
$16.00PaperbackRead moreA study in complicity with crushing state violence and an invitation to a chilling, remarkable debut.
While the spectacle of state violence fleetingly commands a collective gaze, Civil Service turns t- Author: Schwartz, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450941
- Language: English
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By: Kenyon, Jane
Collected Poems
$22.00PaperbackRead moreAll of Jane Kenyon’s published poems gathered in one definitive collection, now in paperback
Yes, long shadows go out
from the bales; and yes, the soul
must part from the body:
what else could it do?
–f- Author: Kenyon, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974783
- Language: English
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By: Moore, Wayétu
She Would Be King
$17.00PaperbackRead moreA novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history–a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formation
Way tu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberi- Author: Moore, Wayétu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1644450011
- Language: English
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By: Rankine, Claudia
Just Us: An American Conversation
$30.00HardcoverRead moreFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation–Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increas- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1644450216
- Language: English
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The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems
$16.00PaperbackRead moreLonglisted for the National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette Mullen By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective- Author: Almontaser, Threa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 164445050X
- Language: English
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One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir
$18.00PaperbackRead more“A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair with language.”–Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011
In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbl- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1555976247
- Language: English
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By: Baxter, Charles
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
$18.00PaperbackRead moreGraywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles Baxter
As much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiri- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1555975089
- Language: English
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By: Percy, Benjamin
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
$18.00PaperbackRead moreBold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read–in any genre–from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy’s career will surely have noticed- Author: Percy, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1555977596
- Language: English
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By: Biss, Eula
Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
$16.00PaperbackRead moreWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeAcclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its
- Author: Biss, Eula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1555978231
- Language: English
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The Sky Above the Roof
$15.00PaperbackRead moreA propulsive, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured family and the persistence of hope.
One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother’s car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his si- Author: Appanah, Nathacha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452251
- Language: English
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By: Monson, Ander
Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession
$16.00PaperbackRead moreA searching memoir of a life lived in the flicker of an action film, by the author of I Will Take the Answer
In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of th- Author: Monson, Ander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452006
- Language: English
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By: Petterson, Per
Men in My Situation
$17.00PaperbackRead moreA tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.
Arvid Jansen is in a tailspin, unable to process the grief of losing his parents- Author: Petterson, Per
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1644450976
- Language: English
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The Book of Not
$16.00PaperbackRead moreThe powerful sequel to Nervous Conditions, by the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body
The Book of Not continues the saga of Tambudzai, picking up where Nervous Conditions left off. As Tam- Series: Nervous Conditions
- Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450720
- Language: English
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Antebellum Dream Book
$14.00PaperbackRead moreIn surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms of dreaming, the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander composes her own kind of improvisational
- Author: Alexander, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 155597354X
- Language: English
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By: Brum, Eliane
Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World
$18.00PaperbackRead moreA confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.
In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira- Author: Brum, Eliane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452197
- Language: English
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By: Smith, Tracy K.
American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time
$15.00PaperbackRead moreA landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States
American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. 22nd- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1555978150
- Language: English


