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The Taming of the Shrew
Love and wit conquer all in Shakespeare's sparkling comedy of self-delusion and disguise.
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Padua holds many suitors for the hand of fair Bianca, but Bianca may not be married until her spinster sister, … -
Autobiography of Red
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly …
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Bright Dead Things
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately “disorderly, and m…
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Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration,…
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Winter Recipes from the Collective
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and anci…
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
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Much Ado About Nothing
In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happi…
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Romancero gitano
El "Romancero gitano" difunde el nombre de su autor por todo el ámbito de la literatura de nuestra lengua. Aclara el poeta que "aunque se llama gitano, es el poema de Andalucía porque el gitano es lo …
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Bluff: Poems
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff…
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War of the Foxes
In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken turns toward the problems of making and representation, in an unrelenting interrogation of our world of…
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The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa…
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Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.
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For poet Victoria Chang, memory “isn’t something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally.” It is wi… -
Modern Poetry: Poems
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude―has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its …
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