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In 1948, 21, already married and graduated from Princeton, W.S. Merwin made his first trip abroad. Through his days as a student in seminary school ... More

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Hall's remarkable life in poetry--a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006--comes alive in this richly detailed, self ... More

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Paul Zweig grew up in Brooklyn, but left New York to explore Paris in the 1950s. After a decade in France, he returned to America and became a ... More

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Weaving a fascinating dialogue between the Old World as represented by Provence and the New World of the postmodern American university, this memoir ... More

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"Originally published s Another bullshit night in Suck City: a memoir."--T.p. verso.

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"The inadvertent shooting death of his brother by poet Orr gives this memoir a god-awful specific gravity and spurs the author's search for ways to ... More

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A beautifully written memoir of nature, community, and poetry

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"Like Tosca, Charles Henri Ford has lived for art and love...a masterpiece"---Edmund White

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Gerald Stern's poetry has been variously praised for its visionary quality, its scope and passion, but most especially for its wholehearted embrace ... More

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One winter morning, poet Dawn Potter sat down at her desk in Harmony, Maine, and began copying out the opening lines of John Milton's Paradise Lost. ... More

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Enigmatic and explosive, Irving Layton was indisputably one of this country's most controversial literary figures. His flamboyant style and ... More

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His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every ... More

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From his grandparents, poet Donald Hall learned that craft--be it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manure--creates its own "absorbedness ... More

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With incredible insight and love, Kim Stafford offers a view into the remarkable life of his father, the poet William Stafford "The unspoken deep ... More

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A time now almost lost--America and Europe of the 1940s and 1950s--is now indelibly recalled in prose pieces by a celebrated poet. In a series of ... More

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Born in New York but reared in County Tyrone. John Montague rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s with his poetry collections including Poisoned ... More

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Readers are taken on a wild journey by from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and ... More

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Misgivings is C. K. Williams's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, ... More

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In this ensemble of beautifully personal, interrelated essays, writer and poet Rebecca McClanahan weaves together threads of stories and common ... More

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A brilliant father, a complicated legacy, and a son's hard-won journey of self-discovery. William Matthews was a much-admired, award-winning poet and ... More

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Poetic and haunting, "Listen" is an artfully rendered memoir that recounts the author's relationship with her brilliant and abusive father. "Listen" ... More

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Acclaimed Japanese poet, Yorifumi Yaguchi, has turned his writing attention to telling baldly what he experienced as a child growing up on the island ... More

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