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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>     sort list by title | author Advice for Lovers Julian Talamantez Brolaski Inspired by Ovid and renaissance sonnet cycles, Advice for Lovers is a queer re-imaginging of the art of courtly love. The Book of a Thousand Eyes Lyn Hejinian Ranging widely in subject and tone, this collection of prose begins as an homage to Scheherazade—the heroine of The Arabian Nights whose nightly tale-telling saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon... In the Sierra Mountain Writings Kenneth Rexroth, Kim Stanley Robinson Nature writings by one of America's greatest poets, written out of a deep experience of the Sierras. Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and... The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry Geoffrey Brock A surprising and illuminating collection, The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry invites the reader to examine the works of these and other poets—seventy-five in all—in context and conversation with one another. Across the Land and the Water Selected Poems, 1964 - 2001 W. G. Sebald Soaring and searing, the poetry of W. G. Sebald is an indelible addition to his superb body of work, and this unique collection is bound to become a classic in its own right. Left-Handed Poems Jonathan Galassi Left-Handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale. Collected Poems Jack Gilbert Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work. Citizen Aaron Shurin In Citizen, Shurin has collected vibrant new poems that are, by turns, romantic, visceral, edgy, and unabashedly beautiful. Califlora A Literary Field Guide Terry Beers Califlora is a playful literary exploration of the relationship between plant and human, drawing from our best writers and thinkers. Novelists, poets, farmers, naturalists, foragers, botanists, and mythmakers have long exulted in the Golden State's... At Sea A Poem for Pablo Neruda Lawrence Ferlinghetti EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT CITY LIGHTS! Exquisite handmade letterpress edition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new poem, "At Sea". Songs of Unreason Jim Harrison Jim Harrison's compelling and provocative Songs of Unreason explores what it means to inhabit the world in atavistic, primitive, and totemistic ways. "This can be disturbing to the learned," Harrison admits. Kenneth Patchen A Centennial Selection Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Clark Waifs and Strays Micah Ballard From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting waifs and strays. Spring and All Facsimile Edition William Carlos Williams A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times)Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>