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1	The Savage Detectives more books like this by Roberto Bolano add to wishlist This book is set during new year's eve, 1975. Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectives are themselves ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Cherry: A Memoir more books like this by Mary Karr add to wishlist "The Liars' Club" were the memoirs of Mary Karr up to the age of ten. "Cherry" follows Mary through her tumultuous and itinerant adolescent years up to the age of 17. We see her abiding friendships, her sexual awakening, her high school years and her time with a gang of drug-taking surfers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson more books like this by Emily Dickinson add to wishlist A collection of all of Emily Dickinson's 1775 poems, which enables readers to see her work as a whole, the complexity of her personality, the fluctuation of her moods, and the development of her style. see all copies from $3.44! new only from $9.94! \| first editions \| SVS
4	A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams more books like this by Jennifer Bryant, Melissa Sweet (Illustrator) add to wishlist In this picture book biography, Bryant's engaging prose and Sweet's stunning mixed-media illustrations celebrate the amazing man who finds a way to earn a living and to honor his calling to be a poet. see all copies from $6.55! new only from $10.18! \| SVS
5	The Liars' Club: 9a Memoir more books like this by Mary Karr add to wishlist Mary Karr's astonishingly candid--and controversial--account of her childhood and the abuses she sustained as the daughter of an alcoholic mother with a 'nervous' condition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay more books like this by Nancy Milford add to wishlist A "New York Times" Notable Book, this landmark biography uncovers for the first time the dark side of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the most famous poet of the Jazz Age. Chosen by "Entertainment Weekly" as the #1 nonfiction book of the year. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath more books like this by Sylvia Plath, Karen V Kukil (Editor) add to wishlist For the first time in publication are the complete, uncensored journals of poet Sylvia Plath that she kept during the last 12 years of her life. Sixty percent of this book is material that has never been made public before, and more fully reveals Plath's personal and literary struggles. Photos. see all copies from $7.80! new only from $11.96! \| SVS
8	Last Time They Met more books like this by Anita Shreve add to wishlist In part one of this romantic novel, a poet named Linda unexpectedly meets an old lover at a literary event. In part two, we encounter the two 26 years before, as they run into each other in an African market and begin their affair. And in part three, set in the 1960s, they meet for the first time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Prisoner's Wife more books like this by Asha Bandele add to wishlist The story of a young black poet who marries a prisoner convicted of murder. Asha Bandele conveys the beauty of love, even in the ugliest of circumstances. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $5.36! \| first editions \| SVS
10	My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson more books like this by Professor Alfred Habegger add to wishlist Eschewing the misconception that Dickinson (1830-1886) was not engaged in a changing dynamic because of her reclusiveness, this study of her life and work discusses how her decision to cloister herself allowed her greater expression than her age ordinarily permitted. A thorough study of the New England religious revival, which she resisted in her ... see all copies from $3.12! new only from $11.57! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Florist's Daughter more books like this by Patricia Hampl add to wishlist "Nothing is harder to grasp than a relentlessly modest life." From Patricia Hampl, the author of "Blue Arabesque," comes this thoughtful and affecting memoir, a meditation on the death of her parents. As Patricia holds on to her dying mother's hand with one hand, she begins to write her obituary with the other. "She would have expected nothing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The book of disquiet more books like this by Fernando Pessoa add to wishlist When Fernando Pessoa died in 1935 he left behind a trunk containing over 25,000 items a vast collection of poems, fragments, letters, journals. These pieces were ascribed to a variety of writers - the heteronyms or assumed identities Pessoa had created over the course of his extravagant written life. Attributed to the heteronym Bernado Soares, THE ... see all copies from $5.36! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Songs for the Butcher's Daughter more books like this by Peter Manseau add to wishlist Reminiscent of Nicole Krauss's "The History of Love," Manseau's debut novel introduces readers to two people whose lives merge unexpectedly in the last years of the 20th century: Itsik Malpesh, a 90-something Russian poet and his 21-year-old American translator. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Amulet more books like this by Roberto Bolano, Dr. Chris Andrews (Translator) add to wishlist From one of "the most admired novelists in the Spanish-speaking world" (Susan Sontag) comes this highly charged semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. see all copies from $6.49! new only from $10.09! \| SVS
15 view cover	Dog Years: A Memoir more books like this by Mark Doty (Read by) add to wishlist Moving and intimate, this memoir is interwoven with profound reflections on feelings for animals and the lessons they teach about life, love, and loss. Elegantly written . . . Stunningly moving."USA Today" see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 more books like this by R F Foster add to wishlist A chronicle of Yeats's life up to his 50th year. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $2.74! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell more books like this by Thomas Travisano (Editor), Saskia Hamilton add to wishlist Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." This collection spans letters from their first meeting in 1947, when both were young, newly launched poets, until Lowell's death in 1977. see all copies from $18.96! new only from $30.57! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered more books like this by Patrick Lane add to wishlist Part memoir, part homage to the healing power of nature, this exquisitely written book evokes the poignancy of time lost and the ever-present possibility of renewal. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Poems and prose more books like this by Gerard Manley Hopkins add to wishlist Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Humboldt's Gift more books like this by Saul Bellow add to wishlist A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of his own life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Byron: Life and Legend more books like this by Fiona MacCarthy add to wishlist With this brilliant book, MacCarthy has produced the most important work on Byron in nearly half a century. Granted unprecedented access to many documents and artifacts unexamined by previous scholars, the acclaimed biographer brings a fresh, engaging sensibility to a full appreciation of the poet's life and art. see all copies from $17.08! new only from $17.08! \| first editions
22 view cover	Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry more books like this by Donald Hall add to wishlist 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-revealing memoir. At 80, Hall is as painstakingly honest about his failures and low points as a poet, writer, lover, and father as he is about his successes, making "Unpacking the Boxes," his first book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Child's Christmas in Wales more books like this by Dylan Thomas add to wishlist Over the course of nearly 50 years, A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES has made its way into the holiday season and become an enduring classic. Dylan Thomas's poetic language, his simplicity of narrative, and the child's perspective (seasoned with an adult's objectivity) add up to a poignant and wonderful tale--with plenty of laughs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime more books like this by Patricia Hampl add to wishlist Hampl explores the allure of a painting by Matisse, featuring a lounging woman immersed in leisure, so at odds with the rush of the modern era. Returning always to his portraits of languid women, she discovers they were not decorative indulgences but something much more. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Living Up the Street more books like this by Gary Soto add to wishlist From the critically acclaimed author of A Summer Life comes a moving collection of prose reflecting the author's childhood years in California. "One of those rare books that come from the author's heart . . . and made alive by imaginative spirit".--San Francisco Chronicle. Winner of the Americn Book Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.63! \| SVS

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