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| The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
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Bill Morgan.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416592426. Daedalus Item Code: 21339 |
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| "[Bill] Morgan brings a productive career of chronicling the mid-20th-century writers known as the Beats to a fine point with this thorough popular history that eschews criticism to concentrate on ... (Read More)
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| Unrecounted: 33 Poems by W.G. Sebald; 33 Lithographs by Jan Peter Tripp
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Michael Hamburger, trans.
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| Publisher: New Directions. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780811215961. Daedalus Item Code: 23915 |
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| At the time of his accidental death in 2001, German author W.G. Sebald had emerged as one of the most innovative novelists of recent decades, and was considered a prominent contender for the Nobel ... (Read More)
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| Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry
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Selected and Translated by Vladimir Nabokov. Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin, eds.
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| Publisher: Harcourt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151012640. Daedalus Item Code: 30036 |
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| Hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another, Vladimir Nabokov began writing in English in his 50s, becoming as fluent as he was ... (Read More)
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| Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
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Shrabani Basu.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752453644. Daedalus Item Code: 23176 |
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| The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just 24 years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he ... (Read More)
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| W.B. Yeats: The Love Poems
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W.B. Yeats. A. Norman Jeffares, ed.
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| Publisher: Kyle Cathie. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781856269537. Daedalus Item Code: 24040 |
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| This collection of William Butler Yeats' love poetry begins with his youthful, romantic idealism. It follows with his disillusionment in middle age after Maud Gonne married John MacBride, and ... (Read More)
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| Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
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Frank Bidart.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374286033. Daedalus Item Code: 11930 |
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| This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics, and the first book by the Bollingen Prize winner that is not dominated by long poems. Narrative elaboration here becomes speed and song. Less embattled ... (Read More)
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| The Wave-Maker: Poems
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Elizabeth Spires.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393337334. Daedalus Item Code: 14504 |
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| This is Elizabeth Spires' sixth collection of poetry: "quiet, unprepossessing, filled with wonder at the mortalities and fleeting beauties of the world" (New Criterion). Here the pilgrim soul, ... (Read More)
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| Where Rivers Change Direction
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Mark Spragg.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781573228251. Daedalus Item Code: 30307 |
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| (Winner, Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award) In a voice that seemingly echoes off canyon walls, springs from the rush of rivers, and thunders from the hooves of horses, the author of An ... (Read More)
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| A Widow's Story: A Memoir
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Joyce Carol Oates.
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| Publisher: Ecco. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780062015532. Daedalus Item Code: 22330 |
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| In this wrenching memoir, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates describes the unexpected death in 2008 of her husband of 46 years and its surprising aftermath. A Widow's Story ... (Read More)
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| A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright
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Anne Wright & Saundra Rose Maley, eds.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374185060. Daedalus Item Code: 21727 |
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| "Pulitzer Prize–winning poet [James] Wright (1927–1980) is well served by his wife and [Saundra Rose] Maley, an English professor specializing in his verse, who have gathered nearly 35 years' worth ... (Read More)
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| Wings of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1944–2003
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Ned Rorem.
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| Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781593760359. Daedalus Item Code: 83048 |
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| Composer Ned Rorem is nearly as famous for his literary output, including a number of diaries, memoirs, and critical essays. Other than the publication of his letters exchanged with Paul Bowles, this ... (Read More)
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| Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life
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Christina Marsden Gillis. Peter Ralston, photos.
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| Publisher: UPNE. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781584656975. Daedalus Item Code: 30168 |
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| Located off the southwest coast of Mount Desert Island in Maine, tiny Gotts Island is ringed with a three-mile-long band of bright granite—a "rock bound belt" that suggests permanence. But the small ... (Read More)
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