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  The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)

  by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brooks Atkinson, Sergio Grez Toso

  The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." More than any writer... (more)
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  Some of the Dharma

  by Jack Kerouac

  A previously unpublished volume by Jack Kerouac offers a collage of poems, haiku, journal entries, letters, meditations, ideas on writing, notes on Buddhism, prayers, blues, sketches, and more. 30,000 first printing."
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  by Charles Baudelaire

  Already Anywhere Out Of The World Artist's Confiteor The Bad Glazier Beat Up The Poor The Beautiful Dorothea Beauty Cake The Clock Comes The Charming Evening Counterfeit Crowds The Desire To Paint The Dog, And The Scent-bottle The Double Room Epilogue Evening Twilight The Eyes Of The Poor The Fairies' Gifts The Faithful Dog The Gallant Marksman The Generous Gambler Get... (more)
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  Autobiography of Red

  by Anne Carson

  A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National book Critics Circle Award Finalist   "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro              The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a... (more)
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  Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories

  The World's Best Short-Short Fictions in a Big, Little Book that you could probably carry in your Pocket. The World's Best Short-Short Fictions in a Big, Little Book that you could probably carry in your Pocket. Ten years ago, Jerome Stern, director of the writing program at Florida State, initiated the World's Best Short Short Story Contest. Stories were to be about 250 words long; first prize was a... (more)
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  Semiotext Canadas

  This anthology redraws Canada as a complex terraincognita of desire and dismay. "Eco-feminism, censorship, and the 'queerness' of the True North. Richly eclectic in tone and material, unrelentingly controversial, and very difficult to ignore. It is likely the most novel take on our state of affairs in quite some time." -- Michael Freeman, Venue magazine, Toronto.
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  The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library)

  by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century.
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  Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

  by Sylvia Plath