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"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world." ... More

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An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use ... More

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A comprehensive and illuminating survey of literary journalism with both historical and international scope, this anthology is the only one of its ... More

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By presenting more than 75 personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the 16th ... More

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`Taken together, The Pleasure of the Text and S/Z force us to notice how much of the most interesting thought today is being carried forward in what ... More

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For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the ... More

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The "Rhetorica ad Herrenium" was traditionally attributed to Cicero (106-43 BCE), and reflects, as does Cicero's "De Inventione," Hellenistic ... More

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Six Memos for the Millennium is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: ... More

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In Waist-High in the World, Mairs explores in her inimitable voice the subject that has always been in the background of her writing, but which she ... More

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The renowned author of 36 Children turns his attention to children's literature and the power of stories in education, from Robin Hood to the ... More

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Essays on nature from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard. "A book of great richness, beauty and power."-- "New York Times Book Review" "A ... More

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"A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting ... More

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Whether suggesting standards for technical innovation or pointing to the ruinous effects of what has become everyday practice, Berry speaks bravely ... More

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This collection of essays takes the reader on a psychological tour of the intense, wayward, violent, not a little crazy America of the 1960s. Surfers ... More

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The nine captivatingly meditative essays in "The Practice of the Wild" display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways ... More

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Six essays and one address outline Emerson's moral idealism and hint at later scepticism. In addition to title essay, this volume includes "History," ... More

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Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, ... More

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The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O ... More

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the son of a Genevan watchmaker who became one of the foremost French writers and political theorists of the Enlightenment, ... More

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This collection of essays recounts what took place on the long morning after the 1960s, when everyone was coming down from their particular bad trip. ... More

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George Orwell's collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following One of the most ... More

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The woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory' says Maya Angelou, bestselling author of I KNOW WHY ... More

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Francis Bacon's classic collection of essays on various subjects. Includes the following essays: Of Truth, Of Death, Of Unity in Religion, Of Revenge ... More

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