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A Tear and a Smile

by Kahlil Gibran

Contains 56 parables, stories, and poems in Gibran's wholly inimitable manner. Illustrated with 4 of his own paintings and drawings, it is the most important edition to the canon of this great writer.

My Life

by Lyn Hejinian

Recognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once poetic autobiography, personal narrative, a woman's fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the poet and her experience. Upon its first Sun & Moon publication in 1987, the book began (and continues to be) taught in hundreds of college and university courses.

Apocrypha

by Catherynne M. Valente

Apocrypha: Catherynne M. Valente's first full-length poetry collection, where freaks, emperors, bodhisattvas, beasts, witches, wicked stepmothers, Greek heroes, told seductively and wickedly in poem and prose, jostle and vie for supremacy . . .

Prussian Nights: A Poem (Bilingual ed. Tr from Russian)Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Prussian Nights: A Poem (Bilingual ed. Tr from Russian)

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Le parti pris des choses

by Ponge

Text: French, English

Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated

Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated

by Nelson Algren

Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make , filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. This 50th anniversary edition is newly annotated with explanations for everything from slang to Chicagoans, famous and obscure, to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered.... (more)

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