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| Wendy Gimbel and Anna Fields - Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba |
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An account of the lives of four generations of Cuban women, written by a journalist for "Vogue" and "Mirabella". The central figure, Naty Revuelta, grew up within the privileged precincts of Battista's inner circle yet became enamored of Fidel Castro and his revolution and--to the horror of her cons ...
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$14.00 - $14.00
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| Carl Phillips - From the Devotions: Poems |
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Carl Phillips offers a meditation on the place of devotion at the end of a century marked increasingly by failure and uncertainty. Challenging divinity (from Eros to Christ) and mining tradition (from ancient Greece to Donne), Phillips takes us even further into that dangerous space he has already m ...
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| Taeko Kono - Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories |
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Selected from all phases of Kono Taeko's career, these ten stores represent the writer's best work and introduce American readers to a truly original voice and vision. In the title story, the protagonist is unable to construct a satisfying relationship with a man; she loathes girls, and she compulsi ...
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| Susan Howe - Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 |
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This volume brings together Howe's earliest poems that she wishes to remain in print, in the forms she wishes them to be preserved. Includes a long preface that discusses the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical influences on these works.
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| Gerald Stern - This Time: New and Selected Poems |
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An exhilarating new collection by the poet often acclaimed as the modern Walt Whitman is "remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past" ("Publishers Weekly").
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| Rebecca Brown - The Gifts of the Body |
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Delivering a voice of inspiration that transcends the AIDS epidemic, this emotionally wrenching novel speaks to everyone who has ever given or received the gift of compassion. A volunteer health-care worker delivers small gifts of daily life--a sponge bath, a hot meal--and gains in return an opportu ...
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$10.00 - $10.00
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| Mark Doty - Atlantis: Poems |
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The poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria--1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist.
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$11.00 - $11.00
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| Eleanor Wilner - Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems |
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For thirty years, the late Thomas McGrath labored over his narrative epic poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, first publishing Part One in 1963, and finishing with Part Four in 1985. All previous editions of the individual parts contained errors which the poet intended to correct in a definitive ed ...
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$20.00 - $20.00
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