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  • Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature

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    Searching 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

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    • Author: Baxter, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 1644450917
    • Language: English
  • The Art of Attention: A Poet’s Eye

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    The 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

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    • Series: Art Of… (Revell)
    • Author: Revell, Donald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: July 24 2007
    • ISBN10: 1555974740
    • Language: English
  • Oculus: Poems

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    FINALIST 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

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    • Author: Mao, Sally Wen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 15 2019
    • ISBN10: 1555978258
    • Language: English
  • The Art of Description: World Into Word

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    It 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

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    • Series: Art Of…
    • Author: Doty, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 140
    • Publish Date: July 20 2010
    • ISBN10: 1555975631
    • Language: English
  • Civil Service: Poems

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    A 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

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    • Author: Schwartz, Claire
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: August 02 2022
    • ISBN10: 1644450941
    • Language: English
  • Collected Poems

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    All 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

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    • Author: Kenyon, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: September 04 2007
    • ISBN10: 1555974783
    • Language: English
  • She Would Be King

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    A 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

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    • Author: Moore, Wayétu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: September 03 2019
    • ISBN10: 1644450011
    • Language: English
  • Just Us: An American Conversation

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    FINALIST 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

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    • Author: Rankine, Claudia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 08 2020
    • ISBN10: 1644450216
    • Language: English
  • The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems

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    Longlisted 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

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    • Author: Almontaser, Threa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 164445050X
    • Language: English
  • One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir

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    “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

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    • Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 04 2012
    • ISBN10: 1555976247
    • Language: English
  • Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

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    Graywolf 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

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    • Author: Baxter, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 02 2008
    • ISBN10: 1555975089
    • Language: English
  • Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction

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    Bold 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

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    • Author: Percy, Benjamin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: October 18 2016
    • ISBN10: 1555977596
    • Language: English
  • Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays

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    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

    Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

    Acclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its

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    • Author: Biss, Eula
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 1555978231
    • Language: English
  • The Sky Above the Roof

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    A 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

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    • Author: Appanah, Nathacha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644452251
    • Language: English
  • Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession

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    A 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

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    • Author: Monson, Ander
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 1644452006
    • Language: English
  • Men in My Situation

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    A 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

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    • Author: Petterson, Per
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644450976
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Not

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    The 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

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    • Series: Nervous Conditions
    • Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 18 2021
    • ISBN10: 1644450720
    • Language: English
  • Antebellum Dream Book

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    In 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

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    • Author: Alexander, Elizabeth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 155597354X
    • Language: English
  • Banzeiro Ã’kòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World

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    A 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

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    • Author: Brum, Eliane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644452197
    • Language: English
  • American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time

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    A 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

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    • Author: Smith, Tracy K.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: September 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 1555978150
    • Language: English
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