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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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"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times
"A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific and sometimes funny, but most important…
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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…
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Doggerel features a robust brood of the most endearing verse tributes ever offered to beloved canine companions. Ribbon marker.
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…
Poets can be said to be the custodians of the interior life. This is a collection of poems, which capture the experience of solitude. It features reveries, expressions of loneliness…
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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…
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…
"The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often…
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