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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
$18.00 Add to cart“Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix’s The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven.” –Hamish Bowles, Vogue
“Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Mar- Author: Brown, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538395
- Language: English
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Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation: Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Read moreA masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney’s translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil’s epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC,- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537046
- Language: English
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Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division
$19.00 Add to cartThe only in-depth biographical account of the lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow.
Revered by his peers–Bono described his voice as holy–and idolized by his fans, musician Ian Curtis l- Author: Curtis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0571224814
- Language: English
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
$26.99 Add to cartAn NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancie
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0865478767
- Language: English
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The Threshold: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet.
Iman Mersal is Egypt’s–indeed, the Arab world’s–great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voi- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607850
- Language: English
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Speak Low
$15.00 Add to cartSpeak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive–and one of poetry’s most essential–contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncomprom
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532168
- Language: English
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Without End: New and Selected Poems
$21.99 Add to cartI love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he’s been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and- Author: Adam, Zagajewski
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528616
- Language: English
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Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition
$23.00 Add to cartReflective later poems of the fiery, Nobel-Prize winning Chilean poet, with English translations and the original Spanish side-by-side on facing pages.
While things are settling down,
here I’ve left m- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0374512388
- Language: English
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
$22.00 Add to cartIn Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories–Hermes in Greec
- Author: Hyde, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532559
- Language: English
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Archaic Smile: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA new edition of A. E. Stallings’s first book of poems, which was awarded the Richard Wilbur Award.
In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stall- Author: Stallings, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0374600724
- Language: English
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On Giving Up
$26.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.
To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giv- Author: Phillips, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614148
- Language: English
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story
$17.00 Add to cartNobel Prize winner Peter Handke–“the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games” (Kirkus)–ponders the life and early death of his mothe
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533644
- Language: English
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
$20.00 Add to cartCarsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America’s most beloved weirdo.
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thi- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535450
- Language: English
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The Founding Fish
$25.00 Add to cartJohn McPhee’s twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hu
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528837
- Language: English
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The Pine Barrens
$18.00 Read moreMost people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks,
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374514429
- Language: English
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With My Back to the World: Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.
Yesterday I slung my depre- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0374611130
- Language: English
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
$20.00 Add to cart“A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.”
―John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city,- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528993
- Language: English
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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
$22.00 Read moreAs selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney’s twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Tr
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526788
- Language: English
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Crowds and Power
$28.00 Read moreCrowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology.
Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and t- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0374518203
- Language: English
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
$18.00 Read moreIn Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374516936
- Language: English
