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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Carmela Ciuraru
A witty look inside the tumultuous marriages of five famous writers-focusing on the wives of either gender-that illuminates the creative process as well as the role of money, fame, and…
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A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times
"A tour de force. . . . The…
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Doggerel features a robust brood of the most endearing verse tributes ever offered to beloved canine companions. Ribbon marker.
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Every poet is a mother’s child, and many of the greatest poets have immortalized this elemental relationship. Here are poets as diverse as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Sylvia Plath, Samuel…
A captivating anthology that celebrates one of nature’s most majestic creatures and the age-old bond between humans and horses.
The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti…
A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. And for readers who…
Features many kinds of equine characters from war horses to cowboys’ trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. This book also features the…
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MaryAnne Evans. Charles Dodgson. Eric Blair. William Sydney Porter. Or, as they aremore commonly remembered, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and O.Henry. For these writers and many others, from…
Features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movement. This collection also includes improvisational verses of Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary…
From tenth-century Japan’s Izumi Shikibu, colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England’s Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel’s Yehuda Amichai, Ireland’s Paul Muldoon, and Russia’s Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries…
A celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this anthology features the varied voices of sons and daughters, and of fathers and grandfathers themselves. It presents a collection of poets and poems…
Bradley Collins
Van Gogh and Gauguin explores the artists’ intertwined lives from a psychoanalytic perspective in order to draw a nuanced and sophisticated picture of the artists’ dealings with each other.
Carmel Ciurara
