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| My Ideal Bookshelf
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Thessaly La Force, ed. Jane Mount, illus.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316200905. Daedalus Item Code: 29454 |
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| (Featured on NPR and included in the New York Times Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books) In this unusual book of portraits, illustrator Jane Mount depicts such cultural figures ... (Read More)
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| Mythology
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Edith Hamilton.
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| Publisher: Back Bay. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780316223331. Daedalus Item Code: 29449 |
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| The longtime headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Edith Hamilton (1868–1963) was a classicist of world renown—indeed, she regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which ... (Read More)
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| A Ned Rorem Reader
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Ned Rorem. J.D. McClatchy, foreword.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300089844. Daedalus Item Code: 11742 |
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| This anthology of composer Ned Rorem's acerbic musings on music, people, and life—a co-winner of the 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in the Symphonic Books Category—surveys the full range of his ... (Read More)
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| Off the Road: Twenty Years with Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg
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Carolyn Cassady.
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| Publisher: Overlook. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781590201046. Daedalus Item Code: 23783 |
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| Written by a woman who loved these three icons of the Beat movement—she was the wife of Neal Cassady, the lover of Jack Kerouac, and the friend of Allen Ginsberg—this literary memoir by Carolyn ... (Read More)
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| The Oxford Book of Parodies
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John Gross, ed.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199548828. Daedalus Item Code: 30757 |
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| This hugely entertaining anthology collects light skits, boisterous send-ups, and savage lampoons, ranging from the broadly comic to the subtle and erudite, from popular nursery rhymes to literary ... (Read More)
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| Painting Chinese: A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth
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Herbert Kohl.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596910522. Daedalus Item Code: 03038 |
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| "In spite of all his accomplishments as an eminent educator and the author of many influential books about education, teaching, and social justice, [Herbert] Kohl found himself bereft as he ... (Read More)
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| Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
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Alexander Neubauer, ed.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307269676. Daedalus Item Code: 23519 |
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| "In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall," begins Alexander Neubauer's introduction to this remarkable book. "It read 'Meet Poets and ... (Read More)
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| Poetry for the Beat Generation
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Jack Kerouac with Steve Allen.
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| Publisher: Rockbeat. Format: 1 audio CD.
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| ISBN: ROC 3151. Daedalus Item Code: 29712 |
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| Originally recorded in one take in 1959, this impromptu collaboration by Beat poet Jack Kerouac and musician and comedian Steve Allen was inspired by a nightclub performance at the Village Vanguard, ... (Read More)
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| Poets of the New Century
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Roger Weingarten & Richard M. Higgerson, eds.
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| Publisher: Godine. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781567921786. Daedalus Item Code: 21570 |
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| This 2001 collection contains both new and previously published work of the new generation of poets writing at the turn of the 21st century, emphasizing young and midcareer poets along with a ... (Read More)
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| The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
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Mark Abley.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780618571222. Daedalus Item Code: 92002 |
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| The author of Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (a New York Times Notable Book and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year) here takes a look at the wild, ... (Read More)
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| Pushcart's Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections
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Bill Henderson & Andre Bernard, eds.
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| Publisher: Pushcart. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781888889048. Daedalus Item Code: 21605 |
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| Ironic, hilarious, and a shot in the arm for would-be authors everywhere, this little volume collects hundreds of disparaging opinions on some of the world's great writers and works, from Lord Byron ... (Read More)
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