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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George...

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Whatsaid Serif Nathaniel Mackey Whatsaid Serif, Nathaniel Mackey's third book of poems, is comprised of installments sixteen through thirty-five of Song of the Andoumboulou, an ongoing serial work whose first fifteen installments appear in Eroding Witness and School of Udhra, his...

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Love, Poetry Paul Eluard When Editions gallimard published "Love, Poetry" (L'amour la poesie) in 1929, the book's success secured Paul Eluard's reputation as perhaps the greatest poet of his immediate generation. Paul Eluard (1895-1952) was one of the founders, along with...

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Poetry As Insurgent Art Lawrence Ferlinghetti After a lifetime, this (r)evolutionary little book is still a work-in-progress, the poet's ars poetica, to which at 88 he is constantly adding. From the groundbreaking (and bestselling) A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the "personal epic" of...

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Who's to Say What's Obscene? Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today Paul Krassner Satirical essays by a countercultural icon about the moral obscenity of contemporary politics, culture, and comedy

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author Haruki Murakami. While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to...

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The Poetry Deal San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5 Diane di Prima San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5: The Poetry Deal is the first full-length collection of poems in decades from legendary feminist Beat poet, Diane di Prima. "A prolific writer generally associated with the Beat Generation, di Prima deserves wider recognition."—Library Journal

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What About This Collected Poems of Frank Stanford Frank Stanford This book couldn't have reached me soon enough. Many of us devoted Frank Stanford fans have been waiting for this book for many, many years. It is comprised of both published and unpublished poems, and for the exception of a few reissued books, I would say that 75% of these poems have been practically impossible to get a hold of.

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Incidents of Travel in Poetry New and Selected Poems Frank Lima, Garrett Caples, Julien Poirier New and selected work by a major Latino poet, the best kept secret of the New York School.

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Of Poetry & Protest From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin This extraordinary volume collects the poems of forty-four of America's most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize– winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander, Ishmael Reed, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez.

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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories Kathleen Collins Miraculously unearthed from the past, it is unimaginable now to think that we lived so long without this cinematic and daring collection of stories. —Recommended by Cassie, City Lights Books

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What is Not Yours is Not Yours Stories Helen Oyeyemi Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret—Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock elements of her characters’ lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. In "Books and Roses"...

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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life Joann Wypijewski An exquisite examination of a sexual culture in crisis.

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What We Know Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System Daryl Atkinson, Vivian Nixon A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America's criminal justice system, from those most impacted by it.

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What Red Was A Novel Rosie Price A sophisticated and conversation-starting novel of modern love, sexual violence, and toxic inheritance from a brilliant new literary voice.

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