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  The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  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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  Solipsist

  by Henry Rollins

  This completely new volume of more than 170 new gritty prose works and poems by self-declared "Anti-Man", Henry Rollins, presents a literary x-ray of the landscape of modern America and the walking wounded who inhabit it.
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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  A previously unpublished volume by Jack Kerouac offers a collage of poems, haiku, journal entries, letters, meditations, ideas on writing, notes on Buddhism, prayers, blues, sketches,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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  The Bone People

  by Keri Hulme

  Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.
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  Autobiography of Red

  A Novel in Verse

  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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  Le Spleen de Paris

  by Charles Baudelaire

  Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new--and in his own words "dangerous"--hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of the lyrical... (more)
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  The Portable Henry Rollins

  by Henry Rollins

  Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and discipline, Henry Rollins has transformed himself from an L.A. punk rocker into a universal soldier. His enemies: slackers and hypocrites. His mission: to steel your soul and... (more)
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  Mudville

  by Kevin Postupack

  MUDVILLE is Casey at the Bat turned on its ear, seen through the sulfurous light of hellfire. It's the bottom of the ninth, the Mudville Nine are down 4-2 with two outs as Casey steps to the plate. And what follows is an apocalyptic retelling of an American folk tale. A story of violence through generations at the heart of the American dream, from the 19th century to the present day--of a people shaped by... (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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  Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

  Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

  by Sylvia Plath

  "What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine."-- Sylvia Plath, from Notebooks, February 1956 Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This... (more)
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  See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

  by Henry Rollins

  Two companion pieces released in one volume, containing selected writing and tour journal entries from 1988-1992.
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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

  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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  The Diary of Mr. Pinke (Contemporary Central European Prose)

  fiction by young Czech poet, tr Alicie Pist'kova