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| The Poetry Lesson
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Andrei Codrescu.
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| Publisher: Princeton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780691147246. Daedalus Item Code: 31816 |
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| In his hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik" (one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an ... (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 Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition
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Upton Uxbridge Underwood. Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, text. Mahendra Singh, illus. Jack Passion, preface.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781616082451. Daedalus Item Code: 22419 |
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| Just how great a poet was Walt Whitman, a man of slight beard, compared to Samuel Morse, a poet as well as an inventor, whose massive Garibaldi Elongated–style beard embodied nearly three times the ... (Read More)
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| Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola
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Gary Dexter, ed.
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| Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780711231627. Daedalus Item Code: 31586 |
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| "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare," George Bernard Shaw once opined in a double-edged ... (Read More)
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| Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola
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Gary Dexter, ed.
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| Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780711229297. Daedalus Item Code: 31587 |
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| "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare," George Bernard Shaw once opined in a double-edged ... (Read More)
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| The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
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Elif Batuman.
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| Publisher: Granta. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781847083135. Daedalus Item Code: 23628 |
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| In her brilliant first book, Elif Batuman takes the reader on a journey both literary and actual as she traces the evolution of her fascination with Russian literature across the globe and several ... (Read More)
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| Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
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Stanley Plumly.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393065732. Daedalus Item Code: 21038 |
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| The winner of the William Carlos Williams Award and author of the National Book Award finalist Old Heart, poet Stanley Plumly here offers a singular and passionate biography of poet John Keats ... (Read More)
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| Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey
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Sam Magavern.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230606470. Daedalus Item Code: 31996 |
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| Widely known for his memoir Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet—a Renaissance man who did not want to be known only as a Holocaust writer. Using ... (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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| Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust
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Lorenza Foschini. Eric Karpeles, trans.
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| Publisher: Ecco. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061965678. Daedalus Item Code: 22321 |
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| Imagine owning something personal that had once belonged to your literary hero. Although Jacques Guérin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, his real ... (Read More)
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| Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
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James McGrath Morris.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780060798697. Daedalus Item Code: 23353 |
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| Like Alfred Nobel, Joseph Pulitzer is better known today for the prize that bears his name than for his contribution to history. Yet in 19th-century American industry, while Carnegie provided the ... (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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